Addicted to prayer?

I read this line from Spurgeon's Morning and Evening on 1/15.

"As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer."

That is an interesting choice of words.  To be addicted is to be:

"devoted or given up to a practice or habit or to something psychologically or physically habit-forming"

 Wow!  If only prayer could really be like that!  Here is a further excerpt from Spurgeon: (read the entire devotional here)

"Our thoughts go roving hither and thither, and we make little progress towards our desired end. Like quicksilver our mind will not hold together, but rolls off this way and that. How great an evil this is! It injures us, and what is worse, it insults our God. What should we think of a petitioner, if, while having an audience with a prince, he should be playing with a feather or catching a fly?

Continuance and perseverance are intended in the expression of our text. David did not cry once, and then relapse into silence; his holy clamour was continued till it brought down the blessing. Prayer must not be our chance work, but our daily business, our habit and vocation. As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. We must be immersed in prayer as in our element, and so pray without ceasing."

To God Alone be the Glory