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500
Intercessory
Prayer
Quotes
By Amos Herbert (The "collector, not the author of them)
-"He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal."- C. S. Spurgeon -"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go”- Abraham Lincoln
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Be encouraged and have your prayer life strengthened through these
remarkable prayer quotes from great men and women of God who had personal
experience with God through the transforming power prayer. 1 John 5:14,15 "If we ask anything according to His will, He heartheth us...."
1 John 5:14,15
1 Peter 5:7 "Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." 1
Peter 5:7
2 Corinthians
10:4-5
"The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in
God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments
and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge
of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Christ." 2 Cor. 10:4,5
2 Thess. 3:1 "Brethren, Pray for us!" 2 Thess. 3:1
2 Timothy 1:12 "I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am
persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to
Him until that Day." 2 Tim. 1:12
A. J. Gordon "You can do more than pray after you have prayed; but you
can never do more than pray until you have prayed." A.J.
Gordon
A. J. Gordon ―It costs much to obtain this power. It costs self-surrender
and humiliation and the yielding up of our most precious
things to God. It costs the perseverance of long waiting and
the faith of strong trust. But when we are really in that
power, we shall find this difference: that, whereas before it
was hard for us to do the easiest thing, now it is easy for us
to do the hardest…. As we become deeply instructed in this
matter, we shall learn to pray less about the details of duty
and more about the fullness of power.‖ A J Gordon
A. J. Gordon ―You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you
can never do more than pray until you have prayed.‖ — A. J.
Gordon
A. T. Pierson "The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as
at the disposal of true prayer." A. T. Pierson
A. T. Pierson ―Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God‘s
presence. It is vain to say, ‗I have too much work to do to
find time.‘ You must find time or forfeit blessing. God
knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for
communion with Him.‖- A. T. Pierson
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A. T. Pierson ―God has no greater controversy with His people today than
this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there
are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.‖-
A. T. Pierson
A.B. Christiansen "Too busy; O forgive, Dear Lord, that I should ever be, too
much engrossed in earthly tasks, to spend an hour with
thee." -- A.B. Christiansen
A.T. Pierson "Let us not forget also that with Him, as with us, prayer is
the voice of conscious dependence. Here is the true key to
the enigma of the Kenosis—the self-emptying (referred to in
Phil. ii.). It was part of our Lord's voluntary humiliation, in
taking the form of a servant, which He consented to be
under orders, and wait on the Father for knowledge of His
will in every word and act of His human life. Hence He always
claimed that the works He did and the words He spake were
the very works and words wrought and spoken by the Father
in and through Him. We shall never do any true work for God,
in God's time and way, unless we feel so absolutely
dependent on God as to venture nothing without guidance.
And prayer, constant prayer, will be the voice of such
dependence."—A.T. Pierson, Jesus the Ideal Evangelist
A.T. Pierson "There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or
locality that did not begin in united prayer." A.T. Pierson
A.W Tozer "Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he
deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and
death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good.
From His goodness, His loving kindness, His good-natured
benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
A.W Tozer "Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by
radical amendment of life; not before. - A.W.Tozer
A.W Tozer "So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,'
we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the
nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of
awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of
the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces
to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than
our most secret thought"-A.W. Tozer
A.W Tozer "When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely
talking to ourselves. - A.W. Tozer
A.W Tozer ―The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to
an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may
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enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may
taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself
in the core and center of their hearts.‖ A.W. Tozer
A.W Tozer ―Yes, worship of the loving God is man‘s whole reason for
existence.‖ A.W. Tozer
Abraham Lincoln "I have been driven many times to my knees by the
overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My
own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient
for the day. - Abraham Lincoln
Acts of the
Apostles
"The Spirit furnishes the strength that sustains striving,
wrestling souls in every emergency, amidst the hatred of the
world, and the realization of their own failures and mistakes.
In sorrow and affliction, when the outlook seems dark and
the future perplexing, and we feel helpless and alone,--these
are the times when, in answer to the prayer of faith, the
Holy Spirit brings comfort to the heart. Acts of the
Apostles, p. 51
Adam Clarke
Ibid
―Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a
sight of his misery; to humble his heart, to excite his desire,
to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul
from earth to heaven.‖ - Adam Clarke Ibid
Adoniram Judson "I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it
came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow,
in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it
came."- Adoniram Judson
Aldous Huxley "The Third Petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by
millions who have not the slightest intention of letting
anyone's will be done but their own"-Aldous Huxley
Alexander
Whyte
"The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or
woman in this world is the talent of prayer"-Alexander
Whyte
Allen E. Vartlett "Seven days without prayer makes one weak." Allen E.
Vartlett
Amzi Clarence
Dixon
"Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray
aright is never to fail. - Amzi Clarence Dixon
Amzi Clarence
Dixon
"The place of real prayer is the Christian's treasure
chamber. He is there in the midst of the treasures of grace
which God has given him, and it is there that God enriches
him more and more; but in the secret place of the Most High
where he dwells, he is rich in love, joy, peace, and all the
fruits of the Spirit."- Amzi Clarence Dixon
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Andrew A. Bonar
"0h brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in
prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast,
and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too -
than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must
pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly
while the virgins slumber." -Andrew A. Bonar
Andrew A. Bonar "O Brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in
prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast
and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper- and sleep too-
than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must
pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly
while the virgins slumber"- Andrew A. Bonar
Andrew A. Bonar ―Let us seek to be delivered from trifling prayers and
contentment with trifling answers.‖ Andrew Bonar, Heavenly
Springs
Andrew Murray "A full measure of the Word and prayer each day gives a
healthy and powerful life" - Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the
Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural."-
Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of
prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the
Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth."
Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and
occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to
Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to
realize the presence of your heavenly Father." Andrew
Murray
Andrew Murray "A much praying minister will receive an entrance into God's
will he would otherwise know nothing of." - Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "Ask as simply and trustfully as a child asks bread. You can
do this because ―God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son
into your heart, crying, Abba, Father.‖ This Spirit is in you to
give you child-like confidence. In the faith of His praying in
you, ask for the power of that Holy Spirit everywhere. Take
time and realize, when you are alone with God: Here am I
now face to face with God to intercede for His servants. Do
not think that you have no influence or that your prayer will
not be missed. Your prayer and faith will make a difference.
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Beware, in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not
only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can
do. Expect unexpected things, ‗above all that we ask or
think.‘ The same censer brings the prayer of the saints
before God and casts fire upon the earth. The prayers that
go up to heaven have their share in the history of this earth.
…. All the powers of evil seek to hinder us in prayer. Prayer
is a conflict with opposing forces. It needs the whole heart
and all our strength. May God give us grace to strive in
prayer till we prevail."— Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting
God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know
what He can do. Expect unexpected things 'above all that we
ask or think.'" Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "Each time you intercede, be quiet first and worship God in
His glory. Think of what He can do, of how He delights to
hear Christ, of your place in Christ, and expect great
things." - Andrew Murray, "Helps to Intercession," Fifteenth
Day, The Ministry of Intercession
Andrew Murray "Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship
God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He
delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think
of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great
things!" Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving
Christian."- Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the
Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural. - Andrew
Murray
Andrew Murray "Lord, teach us to pray.' Yes, to pray. This is what we need
to be taught. Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple
that the feeblest child can pray, yet it is at the same time
the highest and holiest work to which man can rise. It is
fellowship with the Unseen and Most Holy One. The powers
of the eternal world have been placed at its disposal. It is
the very essence of true religion, the channel of all
blessings, the secret of power and life. Not only for
ourselves, but for others, for the Church, for the world, it is
to prayer that God has given the right to take hold of Him
and His strength. It is on prayer that the promises wait for
their fulfilment, the kingdom for its coming, the glory of
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God for its full revelation. And for this blessed work, how
slothful and unfit we are. It is only the Spirit of God can
enable us to do it alright. How speedily we are deceived into
a resting in the form, while the power is wanting. Our early
training, the teaching of the Church, the influence of habit,
the stirring of the emotions--how easily these lead to prayer
which has no spiritual power, and avails but little. True
prayer, that takes hold of God's strength, that availeth
much, to which the gates of heaven are really opened wide--
who would not cry, Oh for someone to teach me thus to
pray?"- Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "Many Christians backslide...They are unable to stand against
the temptations of the world, or of their old nature. They
strive to do their best to fight against sin, and to serve God,
but they have no strength. They have never really grasped
the secret: The Lord Jesus will every day from heaven
continue His work in me. But on one condition—the soul must
give Him time each day to impart His love and his grace.
Time alone with the Lord Jesus each day is the indispensable
condition of growth and power." Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "May God open our eyes to see what the holy ministry of
intercession is, to which, as His royal priesthood, we have
been set apart. May He give us a large and strong heart to
believe what mighty influence our prayers can exert. And
may all fear as to our being able to fulfil our vocation vanish
as we see Jesus, living ever to pray, living in us to pray, and
standing surety for our prayer life." - Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most
beloved spot on earth." -- Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go
of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express,
deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to
sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for
the kingdom of God." Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "Scripture calls us to pray for many things: for all saints; for
all men; for kings and all rulers; for all who are in adversity;
for the sending forth of laborers; for those who labor in the
gospel; for all converts; for believers who have fallen into
sin; for one another in our immediate circles. - Andrew
Murray
Andrew Murray "Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know
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God."-Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "The coming revival must begin with a great revival of
prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound
of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of
secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of
blessing."-Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "The evangelization of the world depends first of all upon a
revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for men - aye, deep
down at the bottom of our spiritless life, is the need for the
forgotten secret of prevailing, world-wide prayer."- Andrew
Murray
Andrew Murray "these are the dispositions that constitute a Christian an
intercessor, and call forth the power of prevailing prayer. -
Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one
of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you
become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those
around you." - Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray "Without set times of prayer, the spirit of prayer will be
dull and feeble. Without the continual prayerfulness, the set
times will not avail. - Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray ―Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting
God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know
what He can do. Expect unexpected things ‗above all that we
ask or think.‘‖ — Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray ―Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship
God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He
delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think
of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great
things!‖ — Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray ―Prayer is reaching out and after the unseen; fasting, letting
go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express,
deepens, confirms the resolution that we are ready to
sacrifice anything, even ourselves, to attain what we seek
for the kingdom of God.‖ — Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray ―The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will
make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in
history.‖ Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray ―Where there is much prayer, there will be much of the
Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-
increasing prayer.‖ — Andrew Murray
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Anselm of
Canterbury
"God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no
mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give
us the more largely."-Anselm of Canterbury
Arthur Pink,
Baker
"Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of
dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of
creature weakness, yes, of helplessness. Prayer is the
acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before
God." –Arthur Pink, Baker
Arthur Wallis "At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer." -
Arthur Wallis, in his Preface to In the Day of Thy Power,
The Scriptural Principles of Revival
Arthur Wallis "Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a
deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His
people. Nehemiah wept and mourned." - Arthur Wallis in his
book, In the Day of Thy Power, The Scriptural Principles of
Revival, Chapter 8, "The Praying Heart"
Arthur Wallis "All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken
the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises
of God." - Arthur Wallis in his book, In the Day of Thy
Power, The Scriptural Principles of Revival, Chapter 8, "The
Praying Heart"
Basilea Schlink "How different the world would look, how different the
state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified
priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless,
for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin
their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first
brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that
their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the
sacrificial Lamb. "-Basilea Schlink
Bernard of
Clairvaux
"Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If
thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself
trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary
designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed or any other
place, pray there; thy temple is there." - Bernard of
Clairvaux
Billy Graham "Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven.
Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication
with the Father possible. - Billy Graham
Bob Pierce "Let my heart be broken with the things that break the
heart of God." …talking about prayer - Bob Pierce
Brother "There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and
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Lawrence delightful than that of a continual conversation with God."
Brother Lawrence
Brownlow North ―I believe there is one thing for which God is very angry with
our land, and for which His Holy Spirit is so little among us,
viz., the neglect of united prayer, the appointed means of
bringing down the Holy Spirit. I say it, because I believe it,
that the Scotch with all their morality so-called, and their
outward decency, respectability, and love of preaching, are
not a praying people. Sirs, is not this the truth? The neglect
of prayer proves to my mind, that there is a large amount of
practical infidelity. If the people believed that there was a
real, existing, personal God, they would ask Him for what
they wanted, and they would get what they asked. But they
do not ask, because they do not believe or expect to receive.
Why do I say this? Because I want to get Christians to
remember that though preaching is one of the great means
appointed by God for the conversion of sinners, yet, unless
God give the increase, Paul may plant and Apollos may water
in vain; and God says He will be inquired of. O ministers,
excuse me,—you gave me this chance of speaking—urge upon
your people to come to the prayer-meeting. O Christians, go
more to the prayer-meeting than you do. And when you go to
the prayer-meeting, try and realize more that there is use in
prayer.‖ Brownlow North
C. H. Spurgeon "If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain
in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union
with the Lord Jesus Christ."- C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A
single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in
it than a fine oration of great length." C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "... he that is never on his knees on earth, shall never stand
upon his feet in heaven."- C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "...[the] power of prayer can never be overrated. They who
cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can
but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome
with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his
disposal." Charles H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of
necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of
hidden poverty"- C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "Continue in prayer, and though the blessing tarry, it must
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come; in God's own time it must appear to you.- C. H.
Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "Get a promise, and spread it before the Lord, and say, ―O
Lord, thou hast said it; do it.‖ God loves to be believed in. He
loves you to think he means what he says. He is a practical
God himself. His word has power in it, and he does not like us
to treat his promises as some of us do, as if they were waste
paper, as if they were things to be read for the
encouragement of our enthusiasm, but not to be used as
matters of real practical truth. Oh! plead them with God: fill
your mouths with reasonings, and come before him." Charles
Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if
the condition of their heart is ready for it. "-C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "God's mercy visits every house where night and morning
prayers are made, but where these are neglected, sin is
incurred."-C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has
heaven and earth at his disposal."- C. S. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain
in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union
with the Lord Jesus Christ."- C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do
with it: get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again. C. H.
Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "Our prayers may be very beautiful in appearance and might
appear to be the very paragon of devotion, but unless there
is a secret spiritual force in them, they are vain things. "-C.
H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns
human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled
mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.
— Charles Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "Prayer is not a hard requirement- it is the natural duty of a
creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human
need can pay to divine liberality." -C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "Prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach
us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer- pray till you
can pray." -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "Prayer plumes the wings of God's young eaglets so that they
may learn to mount above the clouds. Prayer brings inner
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strength to God's warriors and sends them forth to spiritual
battle with their muscles firm and their armor in place. "-
C.H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in
the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray
so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope.
But he who wins with heaven is the the man who grasps the
rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might." Charles
Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "Remember, the Lord will not hear you because of the
arithmetic of your prayers, counting their numbers. He will
not hear you because of the rhetoric of your prayers, caring
for the eloquent language in which they are conveyed. He will
not listen because of the geometry of your prayers,
computing them by their length or breadth. He will not
regard you because of the music of your prayers, caring for
sweet voices or for harmony. Neither will He look at you
because of the logic of your prayers, because they are well
arranged and excellently divided. But He will hear you, and
He will measure the amount of blessings He will give you,
according to the divinity of your prayers. If you can plead
the person of Christ, and if the Holy Ghost inspires you with
zeal and earnestness, the blessings that you shall ask shall
surely come to you." Charles Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a
part of the duties arising out of the relationship between
Christian men that those who are taught should pray for
those who teach God's Word. - C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to
pray without a Savior, insults the deity."-Charles Haddon
Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "The prayer-meeting is an institution which ought to be very
precious to us, and to be cherished by us as a Church, for to
it we owe everything. When our comparatively little chapel
was all but empty, was it not a well-known fact that the
prayer-meeting was always full? And when the Church
increased, and the place was scarcely large enough, it was
the prayer meeting that did it all. When we then met at
Exeter Hall, we were a praying people, indeed; and when we
entered into an even larger arena, the Surrey Music-hall,
what cries and tears went up to heaven for our success! And
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so it has been ever since. It is in the spirit of prayer that
our strength lies; and if we lose this, the hair will be cut off
from Samson‘s head, and God‘s Holy Church will become weak
as water and though we, as Samson did, go and try to shake
ourselves as at other times, we shall hear the cry, ―The
Philistines are upon you,‖ and our eyes will be put out, and our
glory will depart, unless we continue mightily and earnestly in
prayer.‖
C. H. Spurgeon "There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of
precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off
their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but
the majority of the enemy would be missed."-Charles Haddon
Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God
to the throne of God. It is not the utterance of words, it is
not alone the feeling of desires, but it is the advance of the
desires to God, the spiritual approach of our nature toward
the Lord our God. True prayer is neither a mere mental
exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than
that—it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of heaven
and earth." Charles Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon "Under the old Persian Empire a few of the nobility were
permitted at any time to come in unto the king, and this was
thought to be the highest privilege possessed by mortals.
You and I, the people of God, have a permit, a passport to
come before the throne of heaven at any time we will, and
we are encouraged to come there with great boldness; but
still let us not forget that it is no mean thing to be a
courtier in the courts of heaven and earth, to worship him
who made us and sustains us. Truly, when we attempt to pray,
we may hear the voice saying out of the excellent glory:
"Bow the knee." From all the spirits that behold the face of
our Father who is in heaven, even now, I hear a voice which
saith, "Oh, come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel
before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God, and we are
the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. O
worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; fear before him
all the earth." Charles Spurgeon, Throne of Grace (sermon
delivered November 19, 1871)
C. H. Spurgeon "When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our
desires to pray. "-C. H. Spurgeon
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C. H. Spurgeon "Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the
kingdom." Charles Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon ―I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to
preach.‖ Charles Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon ―Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What
wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its
marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy
hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou
shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.‖ — C. H.
Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon ―Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be
a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-
like way...Ask for what you want, because the Lord has
promised it. Believe that you have the blessing, and go forth
to your work in full assurance of it. Go from your knees
singing, because the promise is fulfilled: thus will your
prayer be answered...the strength [not length] of your
prayer...wins...God; and the strength of prayer lies in your
faith in the promise which you pleaded before the Lord.‖ —
C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon ―Prayer can never be in excess.‖ C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon ―The promise of (Jeremiah) ought to prove useful for the
comforting of those who are intercessors for others. You
who are calling upon God, to save your children, to bless your
neighbors, to remember your husband or your wife in mercy,
take comfort from this, ‗I will show you great and mighty
things, which you know not.‘ You cannot guess how greatly
God will bless you. Only go and stand at His door. You
cannot tell what is in reserve for you.... In prayer for
others, God may give you such mercies that you shall be
astounded by them since you expected so little.‖ Charles
Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon ―There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of
precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off
their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but
the majority of the enemy would be missed.‖ — C. H.
Spurgeon
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C. H. Spurgeon Spurgeon's boilerroom. Five young college students were
spending a Sunday in London, so they went to hear the famed
C.H. Spurgeon preach. While waiting for the doors to open,
the students were greeted by a man who asked, "Gentlemen,
let me show you around. Would you like to see the heating
plant of this church?" They were not particularly interested,
for it was a hot day in July. But they didn't want to offend
the stranger, so they consented. The young men were taken
down a stairway, a door was quietly opened, and their guide
whispered, "This is our heating plant." Surprised, the
students saw 700 people bowed in prayer, seeking a blessing
on the service that was soon to begin in the auditorium
above. Softly closing the door, the gentleman then
introduced himself. It was none other than Charles
Spurgeon. Our Daily Bread, April 24.
C. Neil Strait "Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him,
conversing with God about all the things that are important
in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is
listening. - C. Neil Strait
C. Peter Wagner "Holiness is as indispenable for a spiritual warrior as is
eyesight for a military fighter pilot. "- C. Peter Wagner
Carey‘s
Brotherhood,
Serampore
―Prayer—secret, fervent, believing prayer—lies at the root
of all personal godliness.‖ — Carey‘s Brotherhood,
Serampore
Catherine
Marshall
"One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and
never do any praying."-Catherine Marshall
Charles E.
Cowman
―The devil is not put to flight by a courteous request. He
meets us at every turn, contends for every inch, and our
progress has to be registered in heart‘s blood and tears.‖ —
Charles E. Cowman
Charles Finney "A prayer-meeting is an index to the state of religion in a
Church. "-Charles G. Finney
Charles Finney "All the history of the church shows that when God answers
prayer, he gives his people the very thing for which their
prayers are offered. God confers other blessings, on both
saints and sinners, which they do not pray for at all. He
sends his rain both upon the just and the unjust. But when
he answers prayer, it is by doing what they ask him to do. To
be sure, he often more than answers prayer. He grants them
not only what they ask, but often connects other blessings
with it."
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Charles Finney "If the spirit of prayer departs, it is a sure indication of a
backslidden heart, for while the first love of a Christian
continues he is sure to be drawn by the Holy Spirit to
wrestle much in prayer. "-Charles G. Finney, in Revival
Lectures
Charles Finney "Prevailing , or effectual prayer, is that prayer which attains
the blessing that it seeks."- Charles G. Finney
Charles Finney "Probably in the Day of Judgment it will be found that
nothing is ever done by the truth, used ever so zealously,
unless there is a spirit of prayer somewhere in connection
with the presentation of truth."-Charles G. Finney
Charles Finney "Speaking of Charles Finney: "The theme on which he most
constantly dwelt was the baptism of the Holy Ghost. In
season and out of season he was always urging believers to
be filled with the "Spirit, as the only preparation that would
fit them for saving souls, that without it they were
powerless, that with it nothing was too hard for God to do
through them. This was the main track with him, he did not
go off on side issues, believing if we had this all other things
would follow.' "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy
Ghost is come upon you." "When He is come he will guide you
in to all truth." He taught also the necessity of frequent
anointings and deep heart searching as a preparation, hence
his prayer, "Lord give us an overhauling." He attributed his
success in the soul saving largely to the fact that he had
always been favored with helpers who knew how to pray.
There were those in Oberlin who stayed at home when he
preached and "held on" for him as they termed it. Discussing
on wrestling Jacob he once said. "If Jacob had had a prayer
book what under heaven would he have done with it?" He
declared he would rather have a person of no education to
help him in his work if he knew how to prevail in prayer, than
a highly educated person who did not. Prevailing prayer that
takes hold on God not only asks but receives the witness
that the answer will come. This was the watchword in the
early days of Oberlin.
Charles Finney "To pray as a duty and as if obliging God by our prayer, is
quite ridiculous, and is certain indication of a backslidden
heart."-Charles G. Finney
Charles Finney "You must expect to obtain the things for which you
ask. You need not look for an answer to prayer, if you pray
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without any expectation of obtaining it.... If you pray
without an expectation of receiving the blessings, you just
make God a liar.‖ Charles Finney, Lectures on Revival.
Charles Finney ―A Christian can obtain deep feeling, by thinking on the
object. God is not going to pour these things on you, without
any effort on your own. You must cherish the slightest
impressions. Take the Bible, and go over the passages that
show the condition and prospects of the world. Look at the
world, look at your children, and your neighbors and see their
condition while they remain in sin; and persevere in prayer
and effort till you obtain the blessing of the Spirit of God to
dwell in you.‖ — Charles G. Finney
Charles Finney ―Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is
prayer that moves God, effecting its end.‖ — Charles G.
Finney
Charles Finney ―Now, observe, God has placed his people here in a world of
strangers to him. He has placed them in various relations,
and he has admonished them to remember that they are his
children, and that they are also his representatives in this
world. God says to them, I have placed you in these relations,
that you may honour me; I love you as my own children; I
have given my Son to redeem you, and thus I have proved my
personal regard for you. I am always desirous that you
should walk worthy of the high vocation wherewith ye are
called. Remember, you are my representatives in the midst
of a rebellious world; therefore, ―let your light so shine
before men, that others, seeing your good works, may glorify
your Father which is in heaven.‖ Now, this is a correct view
to take of this subject. It is God‘s own interest in us that
leads him to tell us to ask largely of him. The fact is, that
his intrinsic regard for us as our Father, as his redeemed
children, is very great; yes, indeed, in every point of view, he
has the deepest interest in us. Now, that we may not
dishonour him, he tells us that he will give us grace to meet
all our responsibilities, and discharge our duties. ―Open your
mouths wide,‖ he says, ―and I will fill them.‖ I will ―supply all
your needs,‖ all your wants; I am glad to do it; I shall delight
to do it; I am interested in doing it; now, never you forget
this. Ask largely enough, ask confidently enough, and ask
perseveringly enough, to meet all your wants.‖ Charles Finney
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Chip Brogden "If God will do whatever He wishes, regardless of whether
we pray or not, then we do not need to pray at all, and the
Lord's instructions on praying for the Kingdom and the Will
are superfluous. But the truth is that God waits for a
Remnant to rise up and to pray in agreement with His
Purpose before He does anything - He will do nothing apart
from the Church. Apart from HIM, we CAN do nothing;
apart from US, He WILL do nothing"-Chip Brogden
Chrysostom "Prayer "is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand
blessings." Chrysostom
Chuck Smith "The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to
pray." Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith ―There are more battles won through prayer than by any
other means.‖- Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith "Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer
does change the action of God." Chuck Smith
Clyde Martin "There must be closet praying! It is in the closet that we
establish the beautiful habit of spontaneous praying on
every occasion. When we are fresh out of the closet we are
quick to pray about every turn of events. Unceasing prayer is
God's avenue for His children to react to all happenings." -
Clyde Martin
Conflict in
Courage
―Our plans are not always God's plans. . . . In His loving care
and interest for us, often He who understands us better
than we understand ourselves refuses to permit us selfishly
to seek the gratification of our own ambition. . . . Many
things He ask us to yield to Him, but in doing this we are but
giving up that which hinders us in the heavenward way. . .
. In the future life the mysteries that here have annoyed
and disappointed us will be made plain. We shall see that our
seemingly unanswered prayers and disappointed hopes have
been among our greatest blessings. Conflict in Courage, p.
228
Corrie ten Boom "Don‘t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with
the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees." Corrie
ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom "Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and
receives the impossible." — Corrie ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom "Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"- Corrie
Ten Boom
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Corrie Ten Boom "When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians,
the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil
laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy. "-
Corrie Ten Boom
D L Moody ―Unbelief sees something in God‘s hand, and says, ‗I cannot
get it.‘ Faith sees it, and says, ‗I will have it.‘ D L Moody,
Prevailing Prayer, p. 61
D. L. Moody ―Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling
figure.‖ — D. L. Moody
D. L. Moody ―Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the
wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.‖ —
D. L. Moody
Daniel Whittle "Does the prayer, ―Give us this day our daily bread,‖ mean
that we are to do nothing to secure our bread, lest we show
no faith in God, and simply wait in idleness for God to repeat
the miracle of sending it by a raven? or, does it mean that
with thankful hearts to God for the ability he has given us to
work, that we go forth diligently fulfilling our task in the use
of all appropriate means to secure that which his loving
bounty has made possible for us in the fruitful seasons of
the earth, and return with devout recognition that He is the
Creator, Upholder and Giver of all, bringing our sheaves with
us. When seed-time and harvest fail and death is on the land,
when corn fails in Egypt and there is no bread, when we have
obeyed him and sought to toil with our hands and no man has
given unto us, then we will expect his interposition and will
have faith that he who has fed us by use of means, will
supply us without means, and that He alone is the living
God."—Daniel Whittle, from his introductory to Wonders of
Prayer
David Brainerd "Oh, it is a sweet disposition, heartily to forgive all injuries
done to us; to wish our greatest enemies as well as we do our
own souls." David Brainerd
David Brainerd ―God was pleased to grant me divine sweetness in prayer;
especially in the duty of intercession. I think, I never felt so
much kindness and love to those who, I have reason to think,
are my enemies,—though at that time I found such a
disposition to think the best of all, that I scarce knew how
to think that any such thing as enmity and hatred lodged in
any soul; it seemed as if all the world must needs be friends.
I never prayed wth more freedom and delight for myself, or
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dearest friend, than I did now for my enemies.‖ David
Brainerd
David Jeremiah "How often have we prayed something like, "O Lord, be with
cousin Billy now in a special way"? Have we stopped to
consider what it is we're requesting? Imagine that you are a
parent who is preparing to leave your children with a
babysitter. Would you dream of saying, "O Betsy, I ask you
now that you would be with my children in a special way?" No
way. You would say, "Betsy, the kids need to be in bed by 9
pm. They can have one snack before their baths, and please
make sure they finish their homework. You can reach us at
this number if there's any problem. Any questions before we
go?" We are very specific with our requests and instructions
for our babysitters. We want them to know specifics. It
should be no different with prayer. "-David Jeremiah
David Livingstone ―Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time
run to waste.‖ — David Livingstone
David Smithers "Where there is no vision of eternity, there is no prayer for
the perishing." David Smithers
David Wells "What then, is the nature of petitionary prayer? It is, in
essence, rebellion-rebellion against the world in all its
falleness, the absolute and undying refusal to accept as
normal what is pervasively abnormal." David Wells
David, Psalm
55:17
"Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud,
and He shall hear me. "- David, Psalm 55:17
Desire of Ages "All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work
with Christ. "And if we consent, He will so identify Himself
with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds
into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall
be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and
sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service.
When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life
will be a life of continual obedience. Through an appreciation
of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin
will become hateful to us." Desire of "Ages, 668
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Desire of Ages "As activity increases and men become successful in doing
any work for God, there is danger of trusting to human plans
and methods. There is a tendency to pray less, and to have
less faith. Like the disciples, we are in danger of losing sight
of our dependence on God, and seeking to make a savior of
our activity. We need to look constantly to Jesus, realizing
that it is His power which does the work. While we are to
labor earnestly for the salvation of the lost, we must also
take time for meditation, for prayer, and for the study of
the word of God. Only the work accomplished with much
prayer, and sanctified by the merit of Christ, will in the end
prove to have been efficient for good." Desire of Ages, p.
362
Deut. 33:27 "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the
everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from
before thee; and shall say, 'Destroy them.'" Deut. 33:27
Dick Eastman "The greatest blow sent Satan-ward is made by weeping
warriors of prayer." - Dick Eastman
Dick Eastman "The greatest hindrance to effective prayer is sin. Satan's
greatest goal is to keep us from our knees." - Dick Eastman
Dick Eastman "To pray with bitterness toward fellowmen nullifies hours on
our knees."- Dick Eastman
Dick Eastman ‖To intercede is to mediate. It is to stand between a lost
being and an Almighty God, praying that this person will come
to know about God and His salvation.‖-Dick Eastman, The
Hour That Changes The World
Dr. R. A. Torrey ―Up in a little town in Maine, things were pretty dead some
years ago. The churches were not accomplishing anything.
There were a few Godly men in the churches, and they said:
'Here we are, only uneducated laymen; but something must
be done in this town. Let us form a praying band. We will all
center our prayers on one man. Who shall it be?' They picked
out one of the hardest men in town, a hopeless drunkard, and
centered all their prayers upon him. In a week, he was
converted. They centered their prayers upon the next
hardest man in town, and soon he was converted. Then they
took up another and another, until within a year, two or
three hundred were brought to God, and the fire spread out
into all the surrounding country. Definite prayer for those
in the prison house of sin is the need of the hour.‖ Dr. R.A.
Torrey
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Dr. R. A. Torrey ―If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to
see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we
really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition
is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that
we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening
and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.‖ — Dr. R.
A. Torrey
Dr. Ray Prichard "Our only true power is the power of prayer. When we pray,
God moves from heaven. When we pray, things happen that
would not otherwise happen. By prayer all things are
possible." - Dr. Ray Pritchard
Dr. Ray Prichard ―Prayer humbles us, stretches us, shapes us, encourages us,
challenges us, deepens us, and leads us along the pathway of
spiritual growth.‖ - Dr. Ray Prichard
Dwight L. Moody "Every work of God can be traced to some kneeling form. -
Dwight L. Moody
E. Bauman ―Search for a person who claims to have found Christ apart
from someone else‘s prayer, and your search may go on
forever.‖ — E. Bauman
E. H. Bickersteth "All earthly things with earth will pass away; Prayer grasps
eternity. Then pray, always pray! - E. H. Bickersteth
E. H. Bickersteth ―All earthly things with earth will pass away; Prayer grasps
eternity. Then pray, always pray!‖
E. M. Bounds ―The greatest benefactor this age could have is the man
who will bring the teachers and the church back to prayer.‖-
E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds ―The spirit of prayer should rule our spirits and our
conduct.‖- E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God
heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by
prayer." E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds ". . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty
factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in
God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this
world." - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live
without the closet." - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more
prayerful life." E. M. Bounds
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E. M. Bounds "Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm
cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the
omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is
often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and
generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with
God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing
church work without taking time to talk to God about His
work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have
walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls. - E. M.
Bounds
E. M. Bounds "For the praying saints of the past, their faith in prayer was
not a passing attitude that changed with the wind or with
their own feelings and circumstances, they were confident
that God always heard and answered, that His ear was always
open to the cry of His children, and that the power to do
what was asked of Him was equal to His willingness….
Everything was possible to the men and women who knew how
to pray, and it is still possible today. Prayer, indeed, opened
a limitless storehouse, and God‘s hand withheld nothing.
Prayer introduced those who practiced it into a world of
privilege, and brought the strength and wealth of heaven
down to the aid of finite man. What rich and wonderful
power they had who learned the secret of victorious
approach to God! With Moses it saved a nation; with Ezra it
saved a church."
E. M. Bounds "Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God
heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by
prayer. - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to
men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His
work and carry out His plans." E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "God's children should pray. They should cry day and night to
Him. God hears every one of your cries in the busy hour of
the daytime and in the lonely watches of the night. - Robert
Murray McCheyne
E. M. Bounds "God's true preachers have been distinguished by one great
feature: they were men of prayer. Differing often in many
things, they have always had a common center. They may
have started from different points, and traveled by
different roads, but they converged to one point: they were
one in prayer. God to them was the center of attraction, and
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prayer was the path that led to God. These men prayed not
occasionally, not a little at regular or at odd times; but they
so prayed that their prayers entered into and shaped their
characters; they so prayed as to affect their own lives and
the lives of others; they so prayed as to make the history of
the Church and influence the current of the times. They
spent much time in prayer, not because they marked the
shadow on the dial or the hands on the clock, but because it
was to them so momentous and engaging a business that they
could scarcely give over. --E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God,
and for heaven. - E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy
life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to
our prayer chamber than anything else. E.M.Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to
respond to pop-calls." - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Holy living is essential preparation for prayer. - E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "If more children were born of praying mothers, brought up
in direct contact with "the house of prayer," and reared
under prayer environments, more children would hear the
voice of God's spirit speaking to them, and would more
quickly respond to those divine calls to a religious life. Would
we have praying men in our churches? We must have praying
mothers to give them birth, praying homes to color their
lives, and praying surroundings to impress their minds and to
lay the foundations for praying lives."—E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "If you have an earnest desire to pray well, you must learn
how to obey well. If you have a desire to learn to pray, then
you must have an earnest desire to learn how to do God's
will. If you desire to pray to God, you must first have a
consuming desire to obey him. If you would have free access
to God in prayer, then every obstacle in the nature of sin or
disobedience must be removed. God delights in the prayers
of obedient children. Requests coming from the lips of those
who delight to do his will reach his ears with great rapidity,
and incline him to answer them with promptitude and
abundance." E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the
heart toward God. -E. M. Bounds
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E. M. Bounds "It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion
of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but
the earnest man gets access to the ear of God. - E. M.
Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in
prayer. - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the
conscience, a farce and a delusion. - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No
earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its
lack." E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not
a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does
not give much time to praying. - E. M. Bounds, Power through
Prayer - 8 Examples of Praying Men
E. M. Bounds "No name, however precious and powerful, can protect and
give efficiency to prayer which is unaccompanied by the
doing of God‘s will. Neither can the doing, without the
praying, protect from Divine disapproval. If the will of God
does not master the life, the praying will be nothing but
sickly sentiment. If prayer do not inspire, sanctify and
direct our work, then self-will enters, to ruin both work and
worker. How great and manifold are the misconceptions of
the true elements and functionings of prayer! There are
many who earnestly desire to obtain an answer to their
prayers but who go unrewarded and unblest. They fix their
minds on some promise of God and then endeavour by dint of
dogged perseverance, to summon faith sufficient to lay hold
upon, and claim it. This fixing of the mind on some great
promise may avail in strengthening faith, but, to this holding
on to the promise must be added the persistent and
importunate prayer that expects, and waits till faith grows
exceedingly. And who is there that is able and competent to
do such praying save the man who readily, cheerfully and
continually, obeys God?"- E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "No principle is more definitely enforced by Christ than that
prevailing prayer must have in it the quality which waits and
perseveres, the courage that never surrenders, the patience
which never grows tired, the resolution that never wavers. E.
M. Bounds
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E. M. Bounds "Nothing is clearer than that prayer has its only worth and
significance in the great fact that God hears and answers
prayer. -E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons,
and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. -
- E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet." E. M.
Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God
and brings him into active aid." E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of
Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service,
of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more
like God, or else we will quit praying." - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Prayer must be aflame. Its ardor must consume. Prayer
without fervor is as a sun without light or heat, or as a
flower without beauty or fragrance. A soul devoted to God is
a fervent soul, and prayer is the creature of that flame. He
only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and
for heaven." - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Prayer should not be regarded "as a duty which must be
performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare
delight that is always revealing some new beauty." - E.M.
Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Prayer succeeds when all else fails. - E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
E. M. Bounds "Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer. -
E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded
on or followed up by private praying." - E. M Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer.
The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints
are not at their prayers early and late and long."- E. M.
Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God
for men is greater still." E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking
for better men. The Holy Ghost does not flow through
methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery,
but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men…Men of
prayer." -E. M. Bounds
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E. M. Bounds "The conditions of praying are the conditions of
righteousness, holiness, and salvation."- E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with
praying."- E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "The goal of prayer is the ear of God. E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the
little time we give to it." E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "The men who have done the most for God in this world have
been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early
monring, its opportunity and freshness. In other pursuits
than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the
rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and
efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the
remainder of the day." E. M. Bounds.
E. M. Bounds "The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the
name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and
intense longing after God and after his holiness.
E. M. Bounds "The story of every great Christian achievement is the
history of answered prayer. -- E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished
and made strong. - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished
and made strong." E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign
and ruin of Satan. -- E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Those who know God the best are the richest and most
powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and
strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and
feeble thing. - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire
something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become
witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace."- E. M.
Bounds
E. M. Bounds "We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by
importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus
Christ". E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord
unless we follow His example and give more time to
communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would
produce a spiritual revolution. - E.M. Bounds
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E. M. Bounds "We put it as our most sober judgment that the great need
of the Church in this and all ages is men of such commanding
faith, of such unsullied holiness, of such marked spiritual
vigor and consuming zeal, that their prayers, faith, lives, and
ministry will be of such a radical and aggressive form as to
work spiritual revolutions which will form eras in individual
and Church life. - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds "WHILE many private prayers, in the nature of things, must
be short; while public prayers, as a rule, ought to be short
and condensed; while there is ample room for and value put
on ejaculatory prayer—yet in our private communions with
God, time is a feature essential to its value. Much time spent
with God is the secret of all successful praying. Prayer which
is felt as a mighty force is the immediate product of much
time spent with God. Our short prayers owe their point and
efficiency to the long ones that have preceded them. The
short prevailing prayer cannot be prayed by one who has not
prevailed with God in a mightier struggle of long continuance.
Jacob‘s victory of faith could not have been gained without
that all-night wrestling. God‘s acquaintance is not made by
pop calls. God does not bestow his gifts on the casual or
hasty comers and goers. Much time with God alone is the
secret of knowing him and of influence with him. He yields to
the persistency of a faith that knows him. He bestows his
richest gifts upon those who declare their desire for and
appreciation of those gifts by the constancy as well as
earnestness of their importunity." E. M. Bounds, Prevailing
Prayer
E. M. Bounds "Wise is he in the day of trouble who knows his true source
of strength and who fails not to pray." - E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds ―God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is
in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the
forces of against evil …‖ E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds ―HOW vast are the possibilities of prayer! How wide is its
reach! What great things are accomplished by this divinely
appointed means of grace! It lays its hand on Almighty God
and moves Him to do what He would not otherwise do if
prayer was not offered. It brings things to pass which would
never otherwise occur. The story of prayer is the story of
great achievements. Prayer is a wonderful power placed by
Almighty God in the hands of His saints, which may be used
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to accomplish great purposes and to achieve unusual
results…The only limits to prayer are the promises of God
and His ability to fulfill those promises. "EM Bounds,
Possibilities of Prayer
E. M. Bounds ―Men are God‘s method. The church is looking for better
methods; God is looking for better men. What the church
needs today is not more machinery or better, not new
organizations or more and novel methods, but men who the
Holy Spirit can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.
The Holy Spirit does not come on machinery but on men. He
does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.‖ — E. M.
Bounds
E. M. Bounds ―Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with
an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be
denied, and a courage which never fails.‖ — E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds ―Pray for ‗all men.‘ We usually pray more for things than we
do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their
pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost
eternity.‖ — E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds ―Prayer can do anything that God can do. It is a tremendous
statement to make, but it is a statement borne out by
history and experience. If we are abiding in Christ—and if
we abide in Him we are living in obedience to His holy will—
and approach God in His name, then there lie open before us
the infinite resources of the Divine treasurehouse. The man
who truly prays gets from God many things denied to the
prayerless man. The aim of all real praying is to get the thing
prayed for, as the child‘s cry for bread has for its end the
getting of bread. This view removes prayer clean out of the
sphere of religious performances. Prayer is not acting a part
or going through religious motions. Prayer is neither official
nor formal nor ceremonial, but direct, hearty, intense.
Prayer is not religious work which must be gone through, and
avails because well done. Prayer is the helpless and needy
child crying to the compassion of the Father‘s heart and the
bounty and power of a Father‘s hand. The answer is as sure
to come as the Father‘s heart can be touched and the
Father‘s hand moved. The object of asking is to receive. The
aim of seeking is to find. The purpose of knocking is to
arouse attention and get in, and this is Christ‘s iterated and
re-iterated assertion that the prayer without doubt will be
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answered, its end without doubt secured. Not by some
round-about way, but by getting the very thing asked for.
The value of prayer does not lie in the number of prayers, or
the length of prayers, but its value is found in the great
truth that we are privileged by our relations to God to
unburden our desires and make our requests known to God,
and He will relieve by granting our petitions. The child asks
because the parent is in the habit of granting the child‘s
requests. As the children of God we need something and we
need it badly, and we go to God for it. Neither the Bible nor
the child of God knows anything of that half-infidel
declaration, that we are to answer our own prayers. God
answers prayer. The true Christian does not pray to stir
himself up, but his prayer is the stirring up of himself to
take hold of God. The heart of faith knows nothing of that
specious scepticism which stays the steps of prayer and
chills its ardour by whispering that prayer does not affect
God.‖ E. M. Bounds Purpose in Prayer
E. M. Bounds ―The real and obvious test of a genuine work of God is the
prevalence of the Spirit of Prayer.‖ -E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds ―There are plenty of preachers who will preach and deliver
great and eloquent addresses on the need of revival and the
spread of the kingdom of God, but not many there are who
will do that without which all preaching and organizing are
worse than vain--pray. It is out of date, almost a lost art,
and the greatest benefactor this age could have is the man
who will bring the preachers and the Church back to prayer.‖
E. M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds ―What the church needs today is not more machinery or
better, not new organizations or more novel methods, but
men whom the Holy Ghost can use— men of prayer, men
mighty in prayer" E.M. Bounds
E. M. Bounds The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain
of living. -- E. M. Bounds
Ed Cole "Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer.
Education ―Prayer is a necessity; for it is the life of the soul. Family
prayer, public prayer, have their place; but it is secret
communion with God that sustains the soul life."Education, p.
258
Edward
Bickersteth "There are pious persons of very poor attainments in other
respects, without learning or human acquirements, in the
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very lowest stations of life, who asking for the aid of the
Holy Spirit, can with the greatest propriety of expression,
the deepest reverence, and an uninterrupted fluency of
words, pour out their souls to God, and edify their families
and their neighbours."—Edward Bickersteth
Edward Payson "Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing
necessary to a minister. Pray, then, my dear brother; pray,
pray, pray. - Edward Payson
Edwin Harvey ―A day without prayer is a day without blessing, and a life
without prayer is a life without power.‖ — Edwin Harvey
Eli Wigle ―To understand the amazing compass of the promises we
should search them out, and study them, with all the
interest and avidity of a legate searching the will of a rich
benefactor; that we may plead them with unfailing
confidence, and eager expectation, of their fulfilment.‖ Eli
Wigle, Prevailing Prayer, pp. 322, 323
Eli Wigle ―Upon the faithful performance of this most important duty
(intercession), by Christians, DEPENDS the fulfilment of
many of God‘s gracious promises. It is a stunning and almost
overwhelming fact, that God conditions the bestowment of
blessings on others, even their eternal salvation, to a great
extent, on the intercessions of Christians.‖ Eli Wigle,
Prevailing Prayer, p. 321
Eph. 3:20, 16;
1:19
"The nobleman wanted to see the fulfilment of his prayer
before he should believe; but he had to accept the word of
Jesus that his request was heard and the blessing granted.
This lesson we also have to learn. Not because we see or feel
that God hears us are we to believe. We are to trust in His
promises. When we come to Him in faith, every petition
enters the heart of God. When we have asked for His
blessing, we should believe that we receive it, and thank Him
that we have received it. Then we are to go about our duties,
assured that the blessing will be realized when we need it
most. When we have learned to do this, we shall know that
our prayers are answered. God will do for us ―exceeding
abundantly,‖ ―according to the riches of His glory,‖ and ―the
working of His mighty power.‖ Eph. 3:20, 16; 1:19." E. White,
Desire of Ages, p. 200
Eph. 4:32 "Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking
be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one
another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another even as God
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in Christ forgave you."-Eph. 4:32
Eph. 6:18 "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,
being watchful to this end with all perseverance and
supplication for all the saints." Eph. 6:18
Ephesians 4:8 "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and
gave gifts to men." Ephesians 4:8
Etienne Piek ―Prayer is as vast and mighty as God, because He has
committed Himself to answer it. All that God is, and all that
God has, is at the disposal of prayer!‖ – Etienne Piek, GDOP
Team, 2009
Evan Roberts "Prayer is the secret of power." Evan Roberts
F. B. Meyer "We should never leave our room until we have seen the face
of our dear Master, Christ, and have realized that we are
being sent forth by Him to do His will, and to finish the work
which He has given us to do. He who said to His immediate
followers, ―As my Father hath sent me, even so I send you,‖
says as much to each one of us, as the dawn summons us to
live another day. We should realize that we are as much sent
forth by Him as the angels who ―do His commandments,
hearkening unto the voice of His word.‖ There is some plan
for each day‘s work, which He will unfold to us, if only we will
look up to Him to do so; some mission to fulfill; some ministry
to perform; some lesson patiently to learn, that we may be
able to ―reach others also‖ As to our plans we need not be
anxious; because He who sends us forth is responsible to
make the plan, according to His infinite wisdom; and to reveal
it to us, however dull and stupid our faculties may be. And as
to our sufficiency, we are secure of having all needful grace;
because He never sends us forth, except He first breathes
on us and says, ―Receive ye the Holy Ghost‖ There is always a
special endowment for special power." — F. B. Meyer
F. B. Meyer ―God‘s greatest gifts to man come through travail. Whether
we look into the spiritual or temporal sphere, can we
discover anything, any great reform, any beneficial
discovery, any soul-awakening revival, which did not come
through the tolls and tears, the vigils and blood-shedding of
men and woman whose sufferings were the pangs of its
birth?‖-F. B. Meyer
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F. B. Meyer ―Happy is the one who accepts (God‘s) help; and transfers
the feeling of dependence from the earthly to the heavenly
Friend.... When one is willing to be taken up by Him, there
need be no further anxiety or care; for directly a human
spirit yields itself to its Almighty Lover, that moment He
takes it, and assumes all responsibility, and makes Himself
answerable for all its needs. There is but one condition:
‗Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.‘ Would that all
the children of God might know what it is to hand over,
moment by moment, as they occur, all worries, anxieties, and
cares, to the compassionate Lord, sure that He takes them
straight from their hands! We need never feel, then, as if
all depended on our tired brain or failing strength; because
the Lord Himself would supply all our need, according to His
riches in glory.‖ -F. B. Meyer
F.J. Huegel "Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him
to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you
want. - F.J. Huegel
Faith and Works
47
"There are many in the Christian world who claim that all
that is necessary to salvation is to have faith; works are
nothing, faith is the only essential. But God's Word tells us
that faith without works is dead, being alone. Many refuse to
obey God's commandments, yet they make a great deal of
faith. But faith must have a foundation. God's promises are
all made upon conditions. If we do His will, if we walk in
truth, then we may ask what we will, and it shall be done unto
us. While we earnestly endeavor to be obedient, God will
hear our petitions; but He will not bless us in disobedience.
If we choose to disobey His commandments, we may cry,
"Faith, faith, only have faith," and the response will come
back from the sure Word of God, 'Faith without works is
dead' (James 2:20). Such faith will only be as sounding brass
and as a tinkling cymbal."—Faith and Works 47
Flavel ―The devil is aware that one hour of close fellowship, hearty
converse with God in prayer, is able to pull down what he
hath been contriving and building many a year.‖ — Flavel
François Fénelon "Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your
daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in
prayer, as indeed you ought to be."-François Fénelon
François Fénelon "Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more
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essential and yet more neglected than prayer. --François
Fénelon
François Fénelon "Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart,
its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell God your
troubles, that God may comfort you; tell God your joys, that
God may sober them; tell God your longings, that God may
purify them; tell God your dislikes, that God may help you
conquer them; talk to God of your temptations, that God may
shield you from them: show God the wounds of your heart,
that God may heal them. If you thus pour out all your
weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to
say. Talk out of the abundance of the heart, without
consideration say just what you think. Blessed are they who
attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God. --
Francois Fenelon
Frank Laubach ―The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says
‗Amen‘ and runs away before God has a chance to reply.
Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our
ideas.‖ Frank Laubach
Frederick
Franson
"If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to
learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and
pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray. - Frederick
Franson
Fredrik Wisloff "You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet
God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.
George Campbell
Morgan
"Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray. - George
Campbell Morgan
George Campbell
Morgan
"Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought
always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I
know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint,
because I can pray. - George Campbell Morgan
George Campbell
Morgan
"Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's
triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and
always for that ultimate victory. - George Campbell Morgan
George Campbell
Morgan
"The power to prevail in prayer depends primarily upon the
Revelation of the Father, the Mediation of the Son, and the
Inspiration of the Spirit. The Father must be revealed to
the praying soul, otherwise there is no desire and yearning to
pray. But the confronting of God's holiness would make
prayer impossible but for the mediation of the Son; and even
then we need the inspiration of the Spirit, for we know not
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what we should pray for as we ought."—G. Campbell Morgan.
George Campbell
Morgan
"The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of
petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always
upward and onward and Godward." - George Campbell Morgan
George Campbell
Morgan
"The whole life of the believer should be prayer--and this is
the summary and conclusion--every act, every word, every
wish. The act that is not prayer in the ultimate, and the
word which is not prayer in the last analysis, and the wish
that is not prayer in the profoundest depth are to be put
away; they do not become the life of faith. They are things
that produce fainting. - George Campbell Morgan
George Kulp "It may seem a very simple thing to kneel down and talk
thirty minutes or more with the Lord; but those of us who
love to pray and are trying to live a life of prayer find out
after awhile that it requires strength from the Holy Spirit
to pray effectively. To pray Scripturally, and in the Spirit,
requires a divine touch upon our wills to give us patient
perseverance, and another touch upon our attentiveness to
concentrate our perceptions on God and spiritual things, and
another touch on our imagination to form spiritual images or
ideas of heavenly things, or of states of experience, and
another touch upon our affections that we may pray with a
proper feeling and intense desire after God's glory. Without
divine strength to pray with, our prayers will wither just like
flowers without water. So at the beginning of a season of
prayer we should ask our heavenly Father to impart to us by
the Holy Spirit special strength all through our faculties,
that we may pray acceptable and effectively.—Living
Words."—Calloused Knees, George Kulp
George
Macdonald
"God desires not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty
I am, and go down upon your knees and worship", for power
alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say
thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my
strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get
only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way.
There is no other way".
George Muller "It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is
it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must
patiently, believingly, continue in prayer until we obtain an
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answer"-George Müller
George Muller "I live in the spirit of prayer; I pray as I walk, when I lie
down and when I rise, and the answers are always coming. -
George Mueller
George Muller "Let none expect to have the mastery over his inward
corruption in any degree, without going in weakness again and
again to the Lord for strength. Nor will prayer for others, or
conversing with the brethren, make up for secret prayer. -
George Mueller
George Muller "Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other
reasons, for the very purpose of being tried. Yea, however
weak our faith may be, God will try it; only with this
restriction, that as, in every way, He leads on gently,
gradually, patiently, so also with reference to the trial of
our faith. At first our faith will be tried very little in
comparison with what it may be afterwards; for God never
lays more upon us than He is willing to enable us to bear. Now
when the trial of faith comes, we are naturally inclined to
distrust God, and to trust rather in ourselves, or in our
friends, or in circumstances. We will rather work a
deliverance of our own somehow or other, than simply look to
God and wait for His help. But if we do not patiently wait for
God's help, if we work a deliverance of our own, then at the
next trial of our faith it will be thus again, we shall be again
inclined to deliver ourselves; and thus with every fresh
instance of that kind, our faith will decrease; whilst, on the
contrary, were we to stand still in order to see the salvation
of God, to see His hand stretched out on our behalf, trusting
in Him alone, then our faith would be increased, and with
every fresh case in which the hand of God is stretched out
on our behalf in the hour of the trial of our faith, our faith
would be increased yet more. Would the believer, therefore,
have his faith strengthened, he must especially, give time to
God, who tries his faith in order to prove him, and then to
provide the moment it is good for him." George Muller,
Narratives
George Muller ―It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is
it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must
patiently, believingly, continue in prayer until we obtain an
answer; and further we have not only to continue in prayer
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unto the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear
us, and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in
not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in
not expecting the blessing.‖ — George Müller
George Muller ―Oh, my children, love your Heavenly Father, tell Him in faith
and prayer all your needs, and He will supply your wants so
far as it shall be for your good and His glory.‖ Mueller,
Theodore, John G. Paton, p. 18.
George Muller ―We are to cast all of our care upon Him; and we have the
reason: ―For He careth for you.‖ Blessed position. How may I
know whether I have cast my burden upon God? One says, by
prayer! Well, right or wrong, just as you understand it. Right,
if it is believing prayer, if you exercise faith in the power
and willingness of God to carry the burden for you. But
simply praying will not do. We know we have rolled our
burden upon God, if after praying, the heart is easy, the
heart is light. If this is not the case, then we are still
carrying the burden ourselves instead of casting it on God,
and have need to go again to Him, and in believing prayer
exercise faith with regard to the power and willingness of
God to carry the burden for us.‖ George Muller, Jehovah
Magnified, p. 159
George
Whitefield
―Now PRAYER is a duty founded on natural religion; the very
heathens never neglected it, though many Christian heathens
amongst us do:‖ -George Whitefield
George
Whitefield
"Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground
in silent or vocal prayer." George Whitefield
(Great Evangelist during American Revolution era, during
the First Great Awakening in America)
George
Whitefield
―Until we find a work of God stirring among ministers, we
cannot find it among the people. Pour out your prayers for
your ministers. Many, perhaps, deserve bad ministers,
because perhaps you do not pray for them.‖ George
Whitefield, The Duty of Gospel Ministers
Gerhard
Tersteegen
"Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only
God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us. In
their broadest fullness, the possibilities of prayer are to be
found in the very nature of prayer. This service of prayer is
not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort of
performance. Prayer is going to God for something needed
and desired. Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he
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has promised us he will do if we ask him. The answer is a part
of prayer, and is God's part of it. God's doing the thing
asked for is as much a part of the prayer as the asking of
the thing is prayer. Asking is man's part. Giving is God's
part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to
God."—Gerhard Tersteegen
Gerhard
Tersteegen
"The great importance of perseverance in the exercise of
prayer and inward retirement may be sufficiently learnt,‖ he
declares, ―next to the experience of it, merely from the
tempter's artifices and endeavors to allure us from it and
make us negligent of it. He knows that by this delightful
exercise alone his gloomy empire in the soul will necessarily
be destroyed, through the imperceptible influx of the light,
love, and life of Jesus; and that all the flowers and fruits of
the fairest gifts of grace and virtue fade of themselves, if
he can only break them off from this their root.‖ Gerhard
Tersteegen, quoted by Govan, Gerhard Tersteegen, p. 49
Gossner "Prayer is a spiritual law which cooperates with the mind of
God. It has more in it than merely petition. It clothes itself
in reality and power, with the force of God Himself. It is an
attitude of spirit and mind. Language is secondary in true
prayer."-Gossner
Griffeth John "Is it not absurd to suppose that where the human will is so
potent, the Divine will is powerless? My human friend can
hear my prayer, and give me help in response to my petitions;
but God, the Divine Friend, the God in whom "I live, move,
and have my being, is so bound by nature and the laws of
nature, that He can do nothing for me, however great my
need, and however distressful my cry. Anything more absurd
than that it is impossible to imagine; as it is impossible to
imagine anything more opposed to the teachings of our
Lord.—Griffeth John
Guy H. King ―No one‘s a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the
devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.‖ —
Guy H. King
H. Drummond ―There is nothing more appalling than the wholesale way in
which unthinking people plead to the Almighty the richest
and most spiritual of His promises, and claim their immediate
fulfillment, without themselves fulfilling one of the
conditions either on which they are promised or can possibly
be given.‖ — H. Drummond
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H. MacGregor "I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to
preach; A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his
people to pray." -H. MacGregor
Harold Lindsell "God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce
holiness of character in them. - Harold Lindsell
Harold Lindsell "It is always too soon to quit praying, even when praying is
the last thing we seem able to do. "- Harold Lindsell
Harold Lindsell "Prayerlessness is sin. - Harold Lindsell
Hebrews 11:6 "Without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that
cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek Him" (Hebrews 11:6).
Hebrews 4:16 "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that
we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."
Hebrews 4:16
Henri Nouwen "Why is it so important that you are with God and God alone
on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in
which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you
the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you "my
beloved daughter," "my beloved son," "my beloved child." To
pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to
your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being. --
Henri Nouwen
Henry Drummond "Ten minutes spent in the presence of Christ every day, aye,
two minutes, will make the whole day different." Henry
Drummond
Henry Law ―True prayer is indeed bold. It draws near to God, and
wrestles with Him, and gives Him no rest, until an approving
smile testifies that the appeal is granted. God neither can,
nor will, release Himself from the intensity of prayerful
efforts. He cannot, because the truth is set up in heaven,
that prayer shall prosper. He will not, because prayer is the
moving of His Spirit in the heart, and the speaking of His
Spirit on the lips. To deny prayer would be to deny
Himself. To be silent to it would be to be silent unto
Himself.‖ (Isa 64:7; 27:5; 62:7) Henry Law
Henry Martyn "Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may
appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man
of prayer! - Henry Martyn
Herbert Lockyer "The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the
Word of God." - Herbert Lockyer
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Hudson Taylor "Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put
aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days,
that the Spirit‘s power might be manifested? We give too
much attention to method and machinery and resources, and
too little to the source of power." Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor "Those prayers only will be answered which are in harmoy
with the revealed will of God: 'If we ask anything according
to His will, He heareth us; and if we know that He hear us,
whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we
desired of Him.' Unless the Word of God is abiding in us,
how can we be sure that our petitions are in hormony with
His will?" Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor "Eighteen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his
father's library and read a gospel tract. He couldn't shake
off its message. Finally, falling to his knees, he accepted
Christ as his Savior. Later, his mother, who had been away,
returned home. When Hudson told her the good news, she
said, "I already know. Ten days ago, the very date on which
you tell me you read that tract, I spent the entire afternoon
in prayer for you until the Lord assured me that my wayward
son had been brought into the fold." Our Daily Bread, July
19, 1989."-Hudson Taylor
Isaiah 27:3 "I the Lord will do it...." Isa. 27:3
Isaiah 45:11 "Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of "Israel, and his
Maker: 'Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons, and
concerning the work of My hands, you command Me."Isaiah
45:11
Isaiah 62:6 "I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall
never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention
of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He
establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the
earth." Isa. 62:6
J. Hudson Taylor "The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity.
If we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace
wrought in the place of weakness, failure and
disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call
unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and
mighty things which thou knowest not!" (J. Hudson Taylor)
J. I. Packer "When I say 'hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come,' I
should be adding in my mind the words 'in and through me,'
and so giving myself to God afresh to be, so far as I can be,
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the means of answering my own prayer. And when I say, 'thy
will be done,' I should mean this as a prayer that I, along
with the rest of God's people, may learn to be obedient." J.
I. Packer
J. O. Fraser ―Satan‘s tactics seem to be as follows: He will first of all
oppose our breaking through to the place of a real living
faith, by all means in his power. He detests the prayer of
faith, for it is an authoritative ‗notice to quit.‘ We often
have to strive and wrestle in prayer before we attain this
quiet, restful faith. And until we break right through and
join hands with God we have not attained to a real faith at
all. However, once we attain to a real faith, all the forces of
hell are impotent to annul it. The real battle begins when the
prayer of faith has been offered.‖ — J. O. Fraser
J. R. Miller "Gladness may not be thanksgiving. It certainly is not all of
thanksgiving. One may have a heart bubbling with joy,
without a note of thanksgiving. The task of happiness is one
to which we should all firmly set ourselves. To be miserable
in this glorious world, is most unﬕt. We should cultivate
joyousness. But our present lesson is a larger and deeper
one. Thanksgiving implies thought of God. One may be glad all
the day—and never think of God. Thanksgiving looks up with
every breath, and sees God as Father from whom all
blessings come. Thanksgiving is praise. The heart is full of
gratitude. Every moment has something in it to inspire love.
The lilies made Jesus think of his Father, for it was he who
clothed them in beauty. The providence of our lives, if we
think rightly of it, is simply God caring for us. Our
circumstances may sometimes be hard, our experiences
painful, and we may see nothing in them to make us glad. But
faith teaches us that God is always good and always kind,
whatever the present events may be. We may be thankful,
therefore, even when we cannot be glad. Our hearts may be
grateful, knowing that good will come to us even out of pain
and loss. This is the secret of true thanksgiving. It thinks
always of God and praises him for everything. The song
never dies out in the heart, however little there may be in
the circumstances of life to make us glad. J. R. Miller
J. Sidlow Baxter "Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our
arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless
against our prayers. --J. Sidlow Baxter
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J. Wesley
Adcock
"Prayer and praise are to the Christian as the two wings are
to the bird. Don't expect the bird to fly if one wing is
broken. Even so the Christian needs both prayer and praise."
- J. Wesley Adcock, in The Holy Spirit in Life and Labors.
Jacquelyn K.
Heasley
"We waste most of our time trying to get God to do
something He has already done—or praying for God to do
something He told us to do. --Jacquelyn K. Heasley
Jacques Ellul "Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with
God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal
statement. --Jacques Ellul
James 4:2 "You do not have because you do not ask." James 4:2
James 4:7 "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and
he will flee from you. -- James 4:7
James 5:16b ...The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much.- James 5:16b
James Fraser "Each time your spirit goes under and faints in the testing
and trials which come to you, you lose mastery over the
powers of darkness, i.e. you get below them instead of
abiding above them in God. Every time you take the earth
standpoint--think as men think, talk as men talk, look as men
look--you take a place below the powers of darkness. The
mastery of them depends upon your spirit abiding in the
place above them, and the place above them means knowing
God's outlook, God's view, God's thought, God's plan, God's
ways, by abiding with Christ in God...." James Fraser from
Behind the Ranges by Mrs. Howard Taylor
James Fraser "What it showed me was the deliverance from the power of
the devil was won through definite resistance on the ground
of the cross. I am an engineer and believe in things
working. I'd found that much of the spiritual teaching one
hears does not seem to work. At any rate my apprehension
of other aspects of truth had broken down. The passive side
of leaving everything to the Lord Jesus as my life, while
blessedly true, was not all that was needed just
then. Definite resistance on the ground of the cross was
what brought me light. I felt like a man perishing of thirst,
for him some clear, cold, water had began to flow; for I
found it worked. People will tell you, perhaps after a helpful
meeting, that such and such truth alone is the secret of
victory. No--we need different truth at different times.
"Look to the Lord!" Some will say "Resist the devil" is also
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Scripture (James 4: 7), and I found it worked! The cloud of
depression dispersed. I found that I could have victory in
the spiritual realm whenever I wanted it. The Lord Himself
vocally resisted the devil: "Get thee behind me, Satan!" In
humble dependence I do the same, talking to Satan, using
the promises of Scriptures as weapons. And they
worked! Right then, the terrible oppression began to pass
away. I had to learn gradually how to use the new-found
weapon of resistance. I had so much to learn. It seemed as
if God was saying, "You are crying to me to do a big work to
do the Lisu; I'm wanting to do a big work in you yourself."
James Fraser, Behind the Ranges (Fraser was a missionary
with Hudson Taylor in China. This biography is wonderful and
worth reading!)
James Hudson
Taylor
―I have seen many men work without praying, though I have
never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a
man pray without working.‖ James Hudson Taylor
James McClure "A powerless Christian ought to be considered as great a
misnomer as a powerless thunderbolt. If the talent of prayer
should be cultivated as assiduously as the talent of business
is cultivated, the result would be that numberless people who
never can be forceful in speech, nor bounteous in
beneficence, nor energetic in evangelism, would become as
effective forces for the world's help as any men and women
who have ever lived."—James McClure
James McConkey "God is so near, and the arrows of prayer so swift in their
course, and our Father so waitingly intent for every cry of
prayer that starts on its upward way, that it does not take
long to go in. In an instant of doubt: at the first pang of
distress: with the first mis-step of a mistaken course: in the
first second of a fierce temptation, we may go in. Amid the
rush of traffic, the fever of a hurried day, the pressure of a
strained and suffering one you may go in, if for but a second
or two of precious approach. You may lift your heart in it all
and whisper-‖God help me; deliver me: give me strength:
guide me: suffer not my foot to slip.‖ And He will hear you.
And you will learn the sweet lesson of how quickly and how
easily we may go in, in this so sorely needful life of prayer.
James McConkey Going in to God and Out to Men
James Stewart ―To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like
it—that is one of the snares of religion—but also when he
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does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.‖ —
James Stewart
Janice Hughes "Rich is the person who has a praying friend. --Janice
Hughes
Janice Hughes ―Rich is the person who has a praying friend.‖ — Janice
Hughes
Jeanne Guyon "The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart,
which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which
are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination,
which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely
settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God,
they leave it cold and languishing."-Jeanne Guyon
Jer. 1:19 "'They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail
against you. For I am with you,' says the Lord, 'to deliver
you." Jer. 1:19
Jer. 33:3 "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great
and mighty things, which thou knowest not.-Jer. 33:3
Jim Cymbala " Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to
Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'?
Does it ever say, 'My house shall be called a house of
music'? Of course not. The Bible does say, 'My house shall
be called a house of prayer for all nations'. Preaching, music,
the reading of the Word - these things are fine; I believe in
and practice all of them. But they must never override
prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling. the honest
truth is that I have seen God do more in people's lives during
ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons." - Jim
Cymbala
Jim Cymbala "...I learned as never before that persistent calling upon the
Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for
nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these
troubled times, there is simply no other way." - Jim Cymbala
Jim Cymbala "Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds
us how much we continually need the Lord." - Jim Cymbala
Jim Cymbala "I learned as never before that persistent calling upon the
Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for
nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these
troubled times, there is simply no other way. - Jim Cymbala,
in Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
Jim Cymbala "Only turning God's house into a house of fervent prayer will
reverse the power of evil so evident in the world today - Jim
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Cymbala
Jim Cymbala "The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts
and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged
when we begin to lift up our hearts to God. -- Jim Cymbala
Jim Cymbala "The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts
and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged
when we begin to lift up our hearts to God."- Jim Cymbala
Jim Cymbala "The main thing that God asks for is our attention." - Jim
Cymbala
Joel 2:15-17. "Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn
assembly: gather the people, sanctify the congregation,
assemble the elders, gather the children: . . . let the
bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of
her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare
Thy people, O Lord, and give not Thine heritage to
reproach." Joel 2:15-17.
John 11:22-24 "Then said Martha unto Jesus: ‗Lord I know that ….
whatsoever Thou wilt ask of God, God will give it.‘ Jesus
saith unto her, ‗Thy brother doth rise again.‘ Martha saith
unto Him, ‗I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection
at the last day.‘" John 11:22-24
John 11:42 "I know that You always hear Me...." John 11:42
John 14: 24,26. "Verily I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father,
He will give it you in My Name. Hitherto ye have asked
nothing in My Name; ask, and ye shall receive. In that day ye
shall ask in My name." John 14: 24,26.
John 14:13,14 "Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in
My name, I will do it.‖ John 14:13,14
John 14:14 "If you ask anything in My name, I will do it." John 14:14
John 15:7 "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask
what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My
Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be
My disciples."-ohn 15:7
John 16: 23 "In that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say
to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give
you."-John 16: 23
John 8:28 "I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me..." John
8:28
John A. Hardon "Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good
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functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.
--John A. Hardon
John Baillie "Holy Spirit of God, visit now this soul of mine, and tarry
within it until the eventide. Inspire all my thoughts. Pervade
all my imaginations. Suggest all my decisions. Lodge in my
soul's most inward citadel, and order all my doings. Be with
me in silence and in my speech, in my haste and in my leisure,
in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning
and the weariness of the evening. Give me grace at all times
to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship. - John Baillie, in
Herald of His Coming
John Bunyan "He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him
the rest of the day."- John Bunyan
John Bunyan "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than
words without a heart."- John Bunyan
John Bunyan "Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to
God. and a scourge for Satan." - John Bunyan
John Bunyan "The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold
and silver."
John Bunyan "To despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and
blessed are they who delight to converse with God by
prayer." - John Bunyan
John Bunyan "When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words,
than thy words without a heart.
John Bunyan "You can do more than pray after you've prayed, but you
cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. - John
Bunyan
John Bunyan ―And truly, my own experience tells me, that there is nothing
that prevails more with God than persistence.‖ – John Bunyan
John Bunyan ―In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than
words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin,
or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of
prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to
God, and a scourge for Satan.‖ — John Bunyan
John Bunyan ―Prayer opens the heart of God, and is a means by which the
empty soul is filled.‖ – John Bunyan, Ibid
John Bunyan ―Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the
heart and soul to God, through Christ, with the strength and
assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has
promised, or according to the Word, for the good of the
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church, with submission, in faith, to the will of God.‖- John
Bunyan Ibid
John Bunyon "Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a
man to cease from prayer." John Bunyon
John Calvin "Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not
only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay
upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our
fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To
make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical
way in which we can express our love for them." John Calvin
John Climacus "A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but
mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer."–
John Climacus
John Climacus "The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in
secret and God enlightens him. --John Climacus
John Climacus "When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use
words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will
intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered. --
John Climacus
John G. Lake "Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this
and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars
to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls. --John
G. Lake
John G. Lake "There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers
and praying.
John Laidlaw "The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it!
You want to be taught to pray. My answer is pray and never
faint, and then you shall never fail…" John Laidlaw
John R. Mott "The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the
possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will
be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to
recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give
themselves unto prayer. --John R. Mott
John R. W. Stott ―Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon
God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of
subordinating our will to his.‖ — John R. W. Stott
John Smith ―Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon
your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do
great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him.
Cooperate with Him.‖ — John Smith
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John Wesley "Work as if everything depends on you; pray as if
everything depends on God." - Author unknown, but may be
John Wesley. If you know, write me HERE. Thanks -MEB
John Wesley "All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is
prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order
of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by
His choice." - John Wesley
John Wesley "God does nothing except in response to believing
prayer." John Wesley (Famous evangelist who spent 2 hours
daily in prayer)
John Wesley "God only requires of his adult children, that their hearts be
truly purified, and that they offer him continually the wishes
and vows that naturally spring from perfect love. For these
desires, being the genuine fruits of love, are the most
perfect prayers that can spring from it. "- John Wesley
John Wesley "God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the
necessity we have of his grace to preserve the life of God in
the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it,
than the body can without air. - John Wesley
John Wesley "I have so much to do that "I spend several hours in prayer
before "I am able to do it.
John Wesley "In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is
continual prayer. - John Wesley
John Wesley "Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the
understanding be employed on outward things."- John
Wesley
John Wesley "Whether we think of or speak to God; whether we act or
suffer for him; all is prayer when we have no other object
than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. --John Wesley
John Wesley ―Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin,
and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether
they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates
of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth...God does
nothing but in answer to prayer.‖ — John Wesley
John Wesley ―God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.‖ —
John Wesley
John Wesley ―Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne
of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come
down.‖ — John Wesley
John Wesley ―Prayer is where the action is." John Wesley
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John Wesley Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or
suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object
than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. - John Wesley
John Wesley ―I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in
our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic
community in which each person can be unleashed through
the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God‘s creational
intentions.‖ - John Wesley
John Wesley "Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin
and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether
they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates
of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. God does
nothing but in answer to prayer. - John Wesley
Johnston, J. B "True revival lives in prayer. Prayer draws power from
revival. We need only to follow the way-marks of their
remarkable history to be satisfied of their inseparable
unity." - Johnston, J. B.
Johnston, J. B. "The prayer-meeting furnishes a very accurate
discriminating test of character. The live Christian loves its
enjoyments, the spiritually dead have no delights there." —
Johnston, J. B
Jonathan
Edwards
"When God has something very great to accomplish for His
church, it is His will that there should precede it, the
extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezek.
36, 37, together with the context. And it is revealed that
when God is about to accomplish great things for His Church,
He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace
and supplication (Zach. 12:10). ...I should think the people of
God in this land would be in the way of their duty to do three
times as much fasting and prayer as they do" Jonathan
Edwards, from his Thoughts on Revival, Part 5.
Jonathan
Edwards
"That which God abundantly makes the subject of his
promises, God's people should abundantly make the subject
of their prayers." Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan
Edwards
"The true spirit of prayer is no other than God's own Spirit
dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes
from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings
and pantings. It naturally leads to God, to converse with him
by prayer. --Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan
Edwards
―There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do
so much to promote the work of God and advance the
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kingdom of Christ as by prayer.‖ —Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan
Edwards
"The true spirit of prayer is no other than God's own Spirit
dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes
from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings
and pantings. It naturally leads to God, to converse with him
by prayer." - Jonathan Edwards in Sermon, Hypocrites
Deficient in Prayer
Jonathan
Goforth
―It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have
injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one
before we dare approach God at either the private or the
public altar. I am confident that revival would break out in
most churches if this were done.‖ Jonathan Goforth, By My
Spirit, 16
Jose Zayas "Action without prayer is arrogance,prayer without action is
hypocrisy."
Julian of
Norwich
"This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be,
alike, large.-- Julian of Norwich
Julio C. Ruibal "Our greatest victories are won on our knees and with empty
stomachs- Julio C. Ruibal
Kings 2:9 "And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said
to Elisha, 'Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken
away from you?' Elisha said, 'Please let a double portion of
your spirit be upon me." Kings 2:9
Lars Widerberg "A powerful and necessary weapon in the prayer warfare is
thinking, sharp, discerning thinking. 1 Peter 4:7. This
attitude is a manifestation of the kingdom of God in the
midst of turmoil." - Lars Widerberg
Lars Widerberg "Intercession is cooperation with the Holy Spirit in his work
to convict the world concerning sin, and righteousness, and
judgment. John 16:8 - Lars Widerberg, Intercessors
Network.
Lars Widerberg "Regarding Jesus Christ, the Cornerstone----"Praying the
cornerstone into its right and rightful place causes upheaval
and sanctification. Praying the cornerstone into a society
causes turning points. Praying the cornerstone is prophetic
work, demanding work. Praying the cornerstone causes
purging fire, first among the intercessors. Without this, any
attempt to bring about awakening will miss the mark." Lars
Widerberg
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Lars Widerberg "Your prayer life denotes how much you depend on your own
ability, and how much you really believe in your heart when
you sing, "Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to Thy cross I
cling...." The more self- confidence you have, the less you
pray. The less self-confidence you have, the more you have
to pray." - Lars Widerberg, article on prayer - The Father's
House a House of Prayer)
Leonard Ravenhill "A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by
men." - Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "Brings every blessing from above. - Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "Even so, to our knees, O Christians! Desist the folly of
sprinkling today's individual and international iniquity with
theological rose water! Turn loose against this putrefaction
those mighty rivers of weeping, of prayer, and of unctionized
preaching until all be cleansed. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and
the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold.
The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life. --
Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are
not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees." Leonard
Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is
not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are
straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's
talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.
Leonard Ravenhill "Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we
never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is
a great detergent. - Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we
never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is
a great deterrent. --Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat. --Leonard
Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in
our weakness as we pray. - Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "The man who has gotten God's word in the prayer closet
neither seeks nor expects encouragement from men for the
delivery of that word. the Spirit Himself bears witness of
the approval. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "The only power that God will yield to is that of prayer."-
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Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "The secret of praying is praying in secret." -- Leonard
Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "The true church lives and moves and has its being in
prayer." Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill "To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand
before God on behalf of men is something entirely
different." - Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill ...a man who kneels before God will stand before men.-
Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill ―But have we Holy Ghost power—power that restricts the
devil‘s power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises?
Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered
from the devil‘s dominion. What has hell to fear other than a
God-anointed, prayer-powered church?‖ — Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill ―Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting.
Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men,
listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.‖ —
Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill ―The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.‖ — Leonard
Ravenhill
Lord Alfred
Tennyson
"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams
of." - Lord Alfred Tennyson (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Lord Alfred
Tennyson
―More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams
of.‖ — Lord Alfred Tennyson
Luke 18 ―I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because
he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise
and give him as many as he needs.‖ Luke 18:
Luke 18:1 "Men ought always to pray, and not faint." - Bible, Luke 18:1
Luke11:1 "And it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place,
that when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, 'Lord,
teach us to pray.‘" LUKE 11:1
Lyell Rader "If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open.-- Lyell
Rader
Lyndon B.
Johnson
"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States
have found the strength for their tasks by going to their
knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an
enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
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M. Monod ―There are two ways of praying. One asks and hopes; the
other craves and waits until he has obtained. It is just this
‗until‘ that characterises the latter. One seeks God and finds
Him; the other strives with God and triumphs. The first
observes scruiously his daily devotions; the second stays on
his knees hours a day, through the night. ―The first fits in
with the ordinary course of life; the second watches, fasts,
cries, weeps, sweats blood."
M.E. Andross ―…the man on his knees has a leverage underneath the
mountain which can cast it into the sea, if necessary, and can
force all earth and heaven to recognize the power there is in
'His name.'‖ M.E. Andross
M.E. Andross Make time to pray. ―The great freight and passenger trains
are never too busy to stop for fuel. No matter how
congested the yards may be, no matter how crowded the
schedules are, no matter how many things demand the
attention of the trainmen, those trains always stop for
fuel.‖ M.E. Andross
M.E. Andross " When prayer has become secondary, or incidental, it has
lost its power. Those who are conspicuously men of prayer
are those who use prayer as they use food, or air, or light, or
money." M.E. Andross
M.E. Andross "If the Christian does not allow prayer to drive sin out of his
life, sin will drive prayer out of his life. Like light and
darkness, the two cannot dwell together." M.E. Andross
M.E. Andross ―There is no other activity in life so important as that of
prayer. Every other activity depends upon prayer for its
best efficiency.‖ M.E. Andross
M.E. Andross ―Time spent alone with God is not wasted. It changes us; it
changes our surroundings; and every Christian who would live
the life that counts, and who would have power for service
must take time to pray.‖ M.E. Andross
M.Monod ―The first we have known since we learned to know the Lord;
the second...‘Lord, teach us to pray."-M. Monod
Mal. 3:10 "When Christians are united, and praying as they ought, God
opens the windows of heaven, and pours out His blessing till
there is not room to receive it (Read Mal. 3:10).
Manuscript 27,
1895.
"There are many souls yearning unutterably for light, for
assurance and strength beyond what they have been able to
grasp. They need to be sought out and labored for patiently,
perseveringly. Beseech the Lord in fervent prayer for help.
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Present Jesus because you know Him as your personal
Saviour. Let His melting love, His rich grace, flow forth from
human lips.... Take the Word, and with tender, yearning love
for souls, show them the precious righteousness of Christ,
to whom you and they must come to be saved."--Manuscript
27, 1895.
Mark 1:35 "Now in the morning, having risen a long while before
daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and
there He prayed." Mark 1:35
Mark 10:38 "In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by
night: and God said, 'Ask what I shall give thee.'" Mark
10:38
Mark 11:17 "Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the
house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves." -
Mark 11:17
Mark 11:24 "When you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will
have them." Mark 11:24
Martin Luther " I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three
hours in prayer. "- Martin Luther
Martin Luther "As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers
to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray. -
Martin Luther
Martin Luther "If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the
devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much
business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily
in prayer. Martin Luther
Martin Luther "If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a
great deal of the fire of faith. -- Martin Luther
Martin Luther "None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able
to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. It is
a great matter when in extreme need to take hold on prayer.
I know whenever I have prayed earnestly that I have been
amply heard, and have obtained more than I prayed for. God
indeed sometimes delayed, but at last He came." – Martin
Luther
Martin Luther "Pray, and let God worry. -- Martin Luther
Martin Luther "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold
of His willingness." Martin Luther.
Martin Luther "Tomorrow I plan to work, work, from early until late. In
fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three
hours in prayer‖ Martin Luther
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Martin Luther ―As it is the business of tailors to make clothes, and the
business of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of
Christians to pray!‖-Martin Luther
Martin Luther ―If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the
Devil gets the victory through the day...I have so much
business, I can not get on without spending three hours daily
in prayer.‖ — Martin Luther
Martin Luther ―It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is
verily the science of all sciences.‖ — Martin Luther
Martin Luther ―None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able
to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. It is
a great matter when in extreme need to take hold on prayer.
I know, whenever I have prayed earnestly, that I have been
amply heard, and have obtained more than I prayed for. God
indeed sometimes delayed, but at last He came.‖ — Martin
Luther
Martin Luther ―Prayer is not overcoming God‘s reluctance, but laying hold of
His willingness.‖ — Martin Luther
Martyn Lloyd-
Jones
"Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to
pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling
with a text. I would make an absolute law of this – always
obey such an impulse.
Mary Warburton
Booth
―Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not
leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you,
and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both.
And we sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his
devices…I do not think he minds our praying about things if
we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes steadily, is
the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured
of the answer.‖ Mary Warburton Booth
Matt 11: 28 "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest." Matt 11: 28
Matt. 18:20 "For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them." Matt. 18:20
Matt. 7:11 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven
give good things to those who ask Him." Matt. 7:11
Matthew 11. 24 "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire
when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have
them."-Matt. xi. 24
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Matthew 16:23 " But He turned and said to Peter, ―Get behind Me, Satan!
You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the
things of God, but the things of men.‖-Matt. 16:23
Matthew 21:13 "It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer;
but ye have made it a den of thieves." - Matthew 21:13
Matthew 5:23,24 ―Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there
remember that your brother has something against you,
leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First
be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your
gift.‖ Matthew 5:23,24
Matthew 7:7 ―Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;
knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks
receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it
will be opened." Matt. 7:7
Matthew Henry "When God intends great mercy for His people, the first
thing He does is set them a-praying. - Matthew Henry
Matthew Henry "You may as soon find a living man that does not breath, as a
living Christian that does not pray." Matthew Henry
Matthew Henry "You may as soon find a living man that does not breathe, as
a living Christian that does not pray. For this shall every one
that is godly pray. If prayerless, then graceless." Matthew
Henry
Mount of
Blessings
"Every promise in the word of God furnishes us with subject
matter for prayer, presenting the pledged word of Jehovah
as our assurance. Whatever spiritual blessing we need, it is
our privilege to claim through Jesus. We may tell the Lord,
with the simplicity of a child, exactly what we need. We may
state to Him our temporal matters, asking Him for bread and
raiment as well as for the bread of life and the robe of
Christ's righteousness. Your heavenly Father knows that you
have need of all these things, and you are invited to ask Him
concerning them. It is through the name of Jesus that every
favor is received. God will honor that name, and will supply
your necessities from the riches of His liberality. Mount of
Blessings, p. 133
Mount of
Blessings, p. 133
"Every promise in the word of God furnishes us with subject
matter for prayer, presenting the pledged word of Jehovah
as our assurance. Whatever spiritual blessing we need, it is
our privilege to claim through Jesus. We may tell the Lord,
with the simplicity of a child, exactly what we need. We may
state to Him our temporal matters, asking Him for bread and
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raiment as well as for the bread of life and the robe of
Christ's righteousness. Your heavenly Father knows that you
have need of all these things, and you are invited to ask Him
concerning them. It is through the name of Jesus that every
favor is received. God will honor that name, and will supply
your necessities from the riches of His liberality." Mount of
Blessings, p. 133
O. Hallesby "As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day,
answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you
take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be
the story of prayer and answers to prayer." -O. Hallesby
O. Hallesby "The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to
pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience." –
O. Hallesby
O. Hallesby "To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts. It is not our
prayer which moves the Lord Jesus. It is Jesus who moves
us to pray. - O. Hallesby
O. Hallesby ―To strive in prayer means to struggle through those
hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely
from continuing in persevering prayer. It means to be so
watchful at all times that we can notice when we become
slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of prayer to
have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive factor
is the Spirit of prayer.‖ — O. Hallesby
Ocatavius
Winslow
"It is by an act of simple, prayerful faith we transfer our
cares and anxieties, our sorrows and needs, to the Lord.
Jesus invites you come and lean upon Him, and to lean with all
your might upon that arm that balances the universe, and
upon that bosom that bled for you upon the soldier's spear!
But you doubtingly ask, 'Is the Lord able to do this thing for
me'? And thus, while you are debating a matter about which
there is not the shadow of a shade of doubt, the burden is
crushing your gentle spirit to the dust. And all the while
Jesus stands at your side and lovingly says, 'Cast your
burden upon Me and I will sustain you. I am God Almighty. I
bore the load of your sin and condemnation up the steep of
Calvary, and the same power of omnipotence, and the same
strength of love that bore it all for you then, is prepared to
bear your need and sorrow now. Roll it all upon Me! Child of
My love! Lean hard! Let Me feel the pressure of your care. I
know your burden, child! I shaped it? I poised it in My own
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hand and made no proportion of its weight to your unaided
strength. For even as I laid it on, I said I shall be near, and
while she leans on Me, this burden shall be Mine, not hers.
So shall I keep My child within the encircling arms of My
own love. Here lay it down! Do not fear to impose it on a
shoulder which upholds the government of worlds! Yet closer
come! You are not near enough! I would embrace your burden,
so I might feel My child reposing on My breast. You love Me!
I know it. Doubt not, then. But, loving me, lean hard!"
Ocatavius Winslow
Oni Kittle "Prayer is the greatest vehicle to have a congregation united
in seeing Christ's mission fulfilled." - Oni Kittle
Oswald
Chambers
"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the
greater work." -Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end." Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies:
wandering thoughts, and lack of intimacy with God's
character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at
once, but they can be cured by discipline." Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"...get a place for prayer where no one imagines that that is
what you are doing. Shut the door and talk to God." - Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"...Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not
because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered."- Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"...the purpose of prayer is to reveal the Presence of God,
equally present at all times and in every condition."- Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"By intercessory prayer we can hold off Satan from other
lives and give the Holy Ghost a chance with them. No wonder
Jesus put such tremendous emphasis on prayer. –Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no
other ground. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"God never gives us discernment in order that we may
criticize, but that we may intercede. -- Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving
the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that
is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to
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know God Himself. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Inarticulate prayer, the impulsive prayer that looks so
futile, is the thing God always heeds. The habit of
ejaculatory prayer ought to be the persistent habit of each
one of us. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails, God
says so. The will of the man prayed for does not come into
question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and
prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection
working and God gives life. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Is the Son of God praying in me, or am "I dictating to
Him?....Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a
most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect
communion with God. "If the Son of God is formed in us by
regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common
sense and change our attitude to the things about which we
pray. --Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"It is not wrong to pray in the early morning, but it is wrong
to have the motive that it should be known. - Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"It takes a tremendous amount of reiteration on God's part
before we understand what prayer is. We do not pray at all
until we are at our wits' end. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand
before God and find that the prayers we clamoured for in
early days and imagined were never answered, have been
answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence
has been the sign of the answer. If we always want to be
able to point to something and say, "This is the way God
answered my prayer," God cannot trust us yet with His
silence. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the
Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the
saints have to carry on intercession for all men. - Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Learn to be vicarious in public prayer. Allow two rivers to
come through you: the river of God, and the river of human
interests. Beware of the danger of preaching in prayer, of
being doctrinal. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald "Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God
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Chambers is going to answer your prayer. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it. -Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of
the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive
to "be seen of men". - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New
Testament. We look upon prayer as a means for getting
something for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we
may get to know God Himself. --"Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the
greater work. --Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint. - Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Prayer is God's ordained way, the insignificant way of
prayer. -- Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers "Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Prayer is not getting things from God, that is the most
initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with
God; I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may
get to know it as He does. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the
Holy Spirit. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not
related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look
stupid. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Prayer is the answer to every problem there is." - Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing
that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive. -
Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Prayer means that I come in contact with an almighty
Christ, and almighty results happen along the lines He laid
down. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up
what you know you ought to do."- Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies:
wandering thoughts, and lack of intimacy with God's
character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at
once, but they can be cured by discipline. -- Oswald
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Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and
keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers
of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance
can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No
wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work
till we cannot think in prayer. " Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always
God-important."- Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"The purpose of prayer is the maintenance of fitness in an
ideal relationship with God amid conditions which ought not
to be merely ideal but really actual. ...by prayer we lay hold
on God and He unites us into His consciousness. - Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God
equally present all the time in every condition."- Oswald
Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"The revelation of our spiritual standing is what we ask in
prayer; sometimes what we ask is an insult to God; we ask
with our eyes on the possibilities or on ourselves, not on
Jesus Christ. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"The tendency nowadays is to worship prayer, stress is put
on nights of prayer and the difficulty and cost of prayer. It
is not prayer that is strenuous, but the overcoming of our
own laziness. If we make the basis of prayer our effort and
agony and nights of prayer, we mistake the basis of prayer.
The basis of prayer is not what it costs us, but what it costs
God to enable us to pray. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God. -
Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have
people praying for us; God links up his power in answer to
their prayers. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"To pray strenuously needs careful cultivation. We have to
learn the most natural methods of expressing ourselves to
our Father. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the
difficulties. Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the
difficulties." Oswald Chambers
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Oswald
Chambers
"We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does
not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the
Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by
prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished."-
Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service
and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in
the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we
succeed only by prevailing prayer. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service
and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in
the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we
succeed only by prevailing prayer."-Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm
after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential
work. It is the supreme activity of everything that is noblest
in our personality. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and
allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way
to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may
criticize, but that we may intercede. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"When we learn to pray in the Holy Ghost, we find there are
some things for which we cannot pray, there is a sense of
restraint. Never push and say, "I know it is God's will and I
am going to stick to it." Beware, remember what is recorded
of the children of Israel: "He gave them their request; but
sent leanness into their soul." - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"When we pray for others the Spirit of God works in the
unconscious domain of their being that we know nothing
about, and the one we are praying for knows nothing about,
but after the passing of time the conscious life of the one
prayed for begins to show signs of unrest and disquiet. We
may have spoken until we are worn out, but have never come
anywhere near, and we have given up in despair. But if we
have been praying, we find on meeting them one day that
there is the beginning of a softening in an inquiry and a
desire to know something. It is that kind of intercession
that does most damage to Satan's kingdom. It is so slight, so
feeble in its initial stages that if reason is not wedded to
the light of the Holy Spirit, we will never obey it, and yet it
is that kind of intercession that the New Testament places
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most emphasis on." - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
"Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers
prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that
we get hold of God, not of the answer. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
... in times of declension we are inclined to place the need of
prayer instead of penitent approach to God in the fore
front. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
...a most beneficial exercise in secret prayer before the
Father is to write things down exactly so I see exactly what
I think and want to say. Only those who have tried these
ways know the ineffable benefit of such strenuous times in
secret. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
...our Lord prayed because He was concentrated on God; that
is, He did not worship prayer. - Oswald Chambers
Oswald
Chambers
―Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the
greater work.‖ — Oswald Chambers
Oswald J. Smith "I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend
hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the
Holy Spirit. The world must be left outside until God alone
fills the vision...God has promised to answer prayer. It is not
that He is unwilling, for the fact is, He is more willing to give
than we are to receive. But the trouble is, we are not
ready..." - Oswald J. Smith
P. T. Forsyth ―Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict.
Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort
of battle, the battle against whatever is not God‘s will.‖ - P.
T. Forsyth
Paul "Pray without ceasing"- Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:17
Paul E. Billheimer
"Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if
only he can keep them from praying. Paul E. Billheimer
Paul Gerhardt "Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for
absolutely. Pray conditionally for those things you may pray
for conditionally. For those things you can't pray for -
don't." - Paul Gerhardt
Paul Y. Cho "Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer"-Paul
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Y. Cho
Philip Henry "Pray alone. Let prayer be the key of the morning and the
bolt at night. The best way to fight against sin is to fight it
on our knees. -- Philip Henry
Phillips Brooks "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not
pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to
your tasks. - Phillips Brooks
Prov. 20:22 "Wait on the Lord and He shall save thee." Prov. 20:22
Prov. 28:9 "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his
prayer shall be abomination."- Prov. 28:9
Prov. 8:17 "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall
find me." Prov. 8:17
Proverbs 15:29 "The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the
prayer of the righteous. Proverbs 15:29
Proverbs 15:8 "The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD:
but the prayer of the upright is His delight. Proverbs 15:8
Ps 81:10 ―Open your mouth wide and I will fill it." Ps 81:10
PS. 2:7-9 "Ask of Me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy
possession...." PS. 2:7-9
Ps. 28:6 "Blessed be the Lord, because He heard my supplications."
Ps. 28:6
Ps. 37:13 ―But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord; He is
their strength in the time of trouble, and the Lord shall help
them and deliver them...and save them because they trust in
Him.‖ Ps. 37:13
Ps. 8:2 "Ask...." Ps. 8:2
Ps. 85:6 "Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in
You?" Ps. 85:6
Psalms 73:26 ―My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of
my heart, and my portion for ever.‖ Psalms 73:26
R. A. Torrey "Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the
definite and vivid consciousness that we are talking to God
and should believe that He is listening to our petition and is
going to grant the thing that we ask of Him. We should look
to the Holy Spirit to really lead us into the presence of God
and should not be hasty in words until He has actually
brought us there." R. A. Torrey, in How to Pray
R. A. Torrey "Our prayers may be very beautiful in appearance and might
appear to be the very paragon of devotion, but unless there
is a secret spiritual force in them, they are vain things.
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R. A. Torrey "We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have
power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish
little; many services but few conversions; much machinery
but few results." R. A. Torrey
R. A. Torrey . "All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of
prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God
can do everything, prayer is omnipotent." - R. A. Torrey
R. A. Torrey ―Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the
unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are
always men and women of much prayer.‖ R. A. Torrey
R. A. Torrey, in
How to Pray
"Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the
definite and vivid consciousness that we are talking to God
and should believe that He is listening to our petition and is
going to grant the thing that we ask of Him. We should look
to the Holy Spirit to really lead us into the presence of God
and should not be hasty in words until He has actually
brought us there." - R. A. Torrey, in How to Pray
R. F. Horton ―Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not,
get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God;
wait upon Him; seek His face; realize Him; pray.‖ R. F.
Horton
R.A Torrey "Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else,
except the study of the Word of God. - R.A Torrey
R.A. Torrey "Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if
it is willing to the price and that price is not a big salary but
great praying." R.A. Torrey
R.A. Torrey "If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to
see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we
really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition
is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that
we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening
and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him." R.A.
Torrey
R.A. Torrey "Prayer, in every care and anxiety and need of life, with
thanksgiving, is the means God has appointed for our
obtaining freedom from all anxiety, and the peace of God
which passeth all understanding." R.A. Torrey
R.A. Torrey "When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in
prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray,
and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face
before God in prayer, "he trembles" as much as he ever did,
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for he knows that his day in that church or community is at
an end. - R.A. Torrey
RH, September
11, 1883
"There are thousands of prayers daily offered that God
does not answer. There are faithless prayers. ―He that
cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him.‖ There are
selfish prayers, proceeding from a heart that is cherishing
idols. ―If any man regard iniquity in his heart, the Lord will
not hear him.‖ There are petulant, fretful prayers,
murmuring because of the burdens and cares of life, instead
of humbly seeking grace to lighten them. Those who offer
such petitions are not abiding in Christ. They have not
submitted their will to the will of God. They do not comply
with the condition of the promise, and it is not fulfilled to
them. They that are abiding in Jesus have the assurance
that God will hear them, because they love to do his will.
They offer no formal, wordy prayer, but come to God in
earnest, humble confidence, as a child to a tender father,
and pour out the story of their grief and fears and sins, and
in the name of Jesus present their wants; they depart from
his presence rejoicing in the assurance of pardoning love and
sustaining grace. RH, September 11, 1883
Richard Alleine ―The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we
expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own
hearts.‖ — Richard Alleine
Richard Foster "Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from
falling in love. - Richard Foster
Richard Foster "Purchase Richard Foster Resources . Help support the DCQ
mailing list as we receive a small percentage of every sale
made from our book listings.
Richard
Halverson
"Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No
place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no
nation - no organization - no city - no office. There is no
power on earth that can keep intercession out." Richard
Halverson
Robert Hall "The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to
which the Great Jehovah yields. Prayer is the sovereign
remedy."- Robert Hall
Robert Murray
McCheyne
"Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If
you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your
ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray." - Robert
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Murray McCheyne
Robert Murray
McCheyne.
"O believing brethren! what an instrument is this which God
hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the
universe." - Robert Murray McCheyne.
Robert Murray
M'Cheyne
"I ought to pray before seeing any one…Christ arose before
day and went into a solitary place. David says: ‗Early will I
seek thee‘…I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see
His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near
another." - Robert Murray M'Cheyne
S. D. Gordon "...prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized
purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an
important detail of the whole. "- S. D. Gordon
S. D. Gordon "God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for
defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession. -
S. D. Gordon
S. D. Gordon "Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears
of Satan and insisting on his retreat."- S. D. Gordon
S.D. Gordon "Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves;
defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and
strengthens the spirit."- S.D. Gordon
S.D. Gordon "Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence
God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His
action." S.D. Gordon
S.D. Gordon "Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up
the pieces." S.D. Gordon
S.D. Gordon "Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves;
defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and
strengthens the spirit." -S.D. Gordon
S.D. Gordon "The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is
pray." S.D. Gordon
S.D. Gordon ―The great people of the earth today are the people who
pray! I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those
who say they believe in prayer; nor those who explain prayer;
but I mean those who actually take the time to pray. They
have not time. It must be taken from something else. That
something else is important, very important and pressing, but
still, less important and pressing than prayer. There are
people who put prayer first, and group the other items in
life's schedule around and after prayer. These are the
people today who are doing the most for God in winning souls,
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in solving problems, in awakening churches, in supplying both
men and money for mission posts, in keeping fresh and strong
their lives far off in sacrificial service on the foreign field,
where the thickest fighting is going on, and in keeping the
old earth sweet a little while longer.‖- S.D. Gordon
Samuel "God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to
pray for you" -Samuel in 1Samuel 12:23
Samuel Chadwick "Prayer is the acid test of devotion." -Samuel Chadwick
Samuel Chadwick "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from
praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies,
prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil,
mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. - Samuel
Chadwick
Samuel Chadwick "True prayer is a lonely business"- Samuel Chadwick
Samuel Chadwick ―The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from
praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies,
prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our
toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.‖ —
Samuel Chadwick
Samuel Chadwick ―There is no power like that of prevailing prayer—of
Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the
stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah
intoxicated with sorrow, David heart-broken with remorse
and grief, Jesus in sweat and blood. Add to this list from the
records of the church your personal observation and
experience, and always there is cost of passion unto blood.
Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of
power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It
brings life. It brings God.‖ —Samuel Chadwick
Samuel Chadwick ‖The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and
fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of
a stricken soul.‖-Samuel Chadwick
Samuel Logan
Brengle
"All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty
prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried
out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet." -
Samuel Logan Brengle
Selected "Humility is the way for us to open communication with the
merciful God of heaven. It is far better to pray in a private
"room," be unseen by man, and have the approval of God than
to give a public display of prayer and have a heart full of
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pride. - Selected
Selected "One of the cornerstones of a healthy church is having
people who are faithful in prayer. - Selected
Selected "Prayer is not a load to be carried but a gift to be enjoyed."-
Selected
Selected "Prayer is the highest order of business, for it links a
powerless human to the creative force of God's sovereign
power."- Selected
Selected "Prayer, real prayer, is lethal to Satan's cause. -- Selected
Selected "We don't have praying churches, just praying people who
make up praying churches. - Selected
Selected The price of prayerlessness far exceeds the price of
prayer.- Selected
Sidlow Baxter " Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our
arguments, despise our person- but they are helpless against
our prayer. Fellow Christians who love the cause of Christ-
to prayer! To prayer! The times are calling us to it. We must
press on."- Sidlow Baxter
Signs of the
Times
"The prayer that ascends from a broken and contrite heart,
though it should come from the lips of the lowliest saint, is
never disregarded. It is as sweet music in the ears of our
heavenly Father; for he waits to bestow upon us the fullness
of his blessing. It is not in our power to estimate the
supplies that are provided by the Lord to meet our demands.
What power might attend the church did we but call
frequently and in faith for the abundant treasure of the
store-house of God. We have only begun to taste of the
richness of the divine promises. It is our privilege to drink
largely of the fountain of boundless love. What a wonder it is
that we pray so little! God is ready and willing to hear the
sincere prayer of the humblest of his children, and yet there
is much manifest reluctance on our part to make known our
wants to God. What can the angels of God think of poor,
helpless, human beings, who are subject to temptation, when
God‘s heart of infinite love yearns toward them, and he is
ready to give them more than they can ask or think, and yet
they pray so little, and have so little faith? The angels love
to bow before God, they love to be near him. They regard
intercourse with God as their highest joy, and yet the
children of earth, who need so much help that God only can
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give, seem satisfied to walk without the light of his Spirit,
the companionship of his presence."- Signs of the Times,
December 23, 1889
Signs of the
Times June 18,
1902
"Do not entertain the thought that because you have made
mistakes, because your life has been darkened by errors,
your Heavenly Father does not love you and will not hear you
when you pray. He says, "Him that cometh to Me I will in no
wise cast out." The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender
mercy." His heart of love is touched by our sorrows, and
even by our utterance of them. Take to Him everything that
perplexes the mind. Nothing is too great for Him to bear;
for He holds up worlds, He rules over the affairs of the
universe. Nothing that in any way concerns our peace is too
small for Him to notice. There is no chapter in our
experience too dark for Him to read; there is no perplexity
too difficult for Him to unravel. None have fallen so low,
none are so vile, that they can not find deliverance in Christ.
The demoniacs of Gadara, in the place of prayer could utter
only the words of Satan; but yet the heart's unspoken appeal
was heard. No cry from a soul in need is unheeded." Signs of
the Times June 18, 1902
Signs of the
Times, August
14, 1884
"There are two kinds of prayer,—the prayer of form and the
prayer of faith. The repetition of set, customary phrases
when the heart feels no need of God, is formal prayer.
―When ye pray,‖ says Christ, ―use not vain repetitions, as the
heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for their
much speaking.‖ We should be extremely careful in all our
prayers to speak the wants of the heart, and to say only
what we mean. All the flowery words at our command are not
equivalent to one holy desire. The most eloquent prayers are
but vain repetitions, if they do not express the true
sentiments of the heart. But the prayer that comes from an
earnest heart, when the simple wants of the soul are
expressed just as we would ask an earthly friend for a favor,
expecting that it would be granted—this is the prayer of
faith. The publican who went up to the temple to pray is a
good example of a sincere, devoted worshiper. He felt that
he was a sinner, and his great need led to an outburst of
passionate desire, ―God be merciful to me a sinner.‖ Signs of
the Times, August 14, 1884
Signs of the "Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to
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Times, August 7,
1884
him. It makes us realize more and more our great needs, and
hence our obligation to God and our dependence upon him. It
leads us to feel our own nothingness and the weakness of our
judgment. God has made earnest prayer the condition of the
bestowal of his richest blessings. Prayer brings us nearer
and nearer to Jesus. However fully we may have given
ourselves to God at conversion, it is of no avail unless we
renew our consecration in each separate duty as it presents
itself." Signs of the Times, August 7, 1884
Sir Thomas
Buxton
―You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price.
Never, never neglect it.‖ — Sir Thomas Buxton
Soren
Kierkegaard "Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.
T. S. Hegre ―If the church would only awaken to her responsibility of
intercession, we could well evangelize the world in a short
time. It is not God‘s plan that the world be merely
evangelized ultimately. It should be evangelized in every
generation. There should be a constant gospel witness in
every corner of the world so that no sinner need close his
eyes in death without hearing the gospel, the good news of
salvation through Christ.‖ — T. S. Hegre
T. Watson ―A godly man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in,
prayer is poured out. Prayer is the soul‘s traffic with
Heaven; God comes down to us by His Spirit, and we go up to
Him by prayer.‖ — T. Watson
Teresa of Avila "There are more tears shed over answered prayers than
over unanswered prayers. --Teresa of Avila
Testimonies, Vol.
8, 408
"Could the curtain be rolled back, could you discern the
purposes of God and the judgments that are about to fall
upon a doomed world, could you see your own attitude, you
would fear and tremble for your own souls and for the souls
of your fellow men. Earnest prayers of heart-rending anguish
would go up to heaven. You would weep between the porch
and the altar, confessing your spiritual blindness and
backsliding." Testimonies, Vol. 8, 408
The Bible Echo "We must have a deep, earnest sense of our needs. We must
feel our weakness and our dependence upon God, and come to
Him with contrition of soul and brokenness of heart. Our
petitions must be offered in perfect submission; every
desire must be brought into harmony with the will of God,
and His will must be done in us. We must not pray in a
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doubting, half-hearted manner, but with full assurance of
faith. When we come to Him in this manner, Jesus will listen
to our prayers, and will answer them; but if we regard
iniquity in our hearts, if we cherish any darling sin, we may
be assured that no blessing will be given in response to our
prayers.‖ The Bible Echo, September 24, 1894.
The Bondage
Breaker
"Prayer is the Christian's first line of defense against
demonic influence. Fervent, sincere prayer thwarts Satan's
activity like nothing else. -- The Bondage Breaker
The Kneeling
Christian
"All hindrance to prayer arises from ignorance of the
teaching of God's Holy Word on the life of holiness He has
planned for all His children or from an unwillingness to
consecrate ourselves fully to Him. - The Kneeling Christian
The Kneeling
Christian
"All real growth in the spiritual life, all victory over
temptation,all confidence and peace in the presence of
difficulties and dangers, all repose of spirit in times of great
disappointment or loss, all habitual communion with God, -
depends upon the practice of secret prayer.
The Kneeling
Christian
"All that true prayer seeks is God Himself, for with Him we
get all we need. - The Kneeling Christian
The Kneeling
Christian
"Prayer is not given us as a burden to be borne or an irksome
duty to fulfill, but to be a joy and power to which there is no
limit. "- The Kneeling Christian
The Kneeling
Christian
"Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but
trembles when we pray. - The Kneeling Christian
The Kneeling
Christian
"The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer."
The Kneeling Christian
The Kneeling
Christian
"There is no greater test to spirituality than prayer. The
man who tries to pray quickly discovers just where he stands
in God's sight." - The Kneeling Christian
The Kneeling
Christian
"Unless the heart is right the prayer must be wrong. - The
Kneeling Christian
The Kneeling
Christian
"We feel sure that the weakness in the spiritual life of many
churches is to be traced to an inefficient prayer-meeting, or
the absence of meetings for prayer..... Can we not make the
weekly prayer-meeting a live thing and a living force?" - The
Kneeling Christian, Chapter 11
The Kneeling
Christian
"We must bear in mind that mere resolutions to take more
time for prayer and to conquer reluctance to pray will not
prove lastingly effective unless there is a whole hearted and
absolute surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ. - The Kneeling
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Christian
The Kneeling
Christian
"Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God for things
agreeable to His will, in the name of Christ, with confession
of our sins and thankful acknowledgment of His mercies. -
The Kneeling Christian (Also, see Philippians 4:6)
The Upward Look ―We have a wise loving heavenly Father, who hears the
prayers of His children. But He does not always give them
what they desire. He withholds that which He sees would
not be for their good. But He bestows on them all that they
need. He gives them that which is necessary for their
growth in grace….The Lord hears our petitions; He
understands our situation, and He will supply the very thing
we need. He will strengthen our faith and increase our
spirituality.‖ The Upward Look p. 369
Thess. 4:11,12 "Be ambitious to be quiet and to do your own business, and to
work with your hands, even as we charged you; that ye may
walk honestly toward them that are without, and may have
need of nothing.‖ Thess. 4:11,12
Thomas Boston
of Simprin
(1699)
"How wilt thou get a word from God if thou do not seek it?
And how canst thou seek it but by earnest prayer? If
otherwise, thou mayest get something that is the product of
thy empty head to mumble over before the people, and spend
a little time with them in the church. But O, it is a miserable
preaching where the preacher can say, "Thus say I unto you,
but no more",; and cannot say, "Thus saith the Lord." -
Thomas Boston of Simprin (1699)
Thomas Brooks "God‘s hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon
sanctification, but upon Christ‘s intercession; not upon what
we are in ourselves, but what‘ we are in the Lord Jesus; both
our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved
[Eph 1.6]—Thomas Brooks
Thomas Brooks "Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the
Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the
Lord—Thomas Brooks
Thomas Brooks "The best and sweetest flowers of Paradise God gives to his
people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of
heaven, a key to let us in to Paradise—Thomas Brooks
Thomas Hooker,
Puritan
"Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I
carry on the rest. -Thomas Hooker, Puritan
Thomas Lindberg "People may spurn our appeals, reject our messages, oppose
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our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless
against our prayers. - Thomas Lindberg.
Thomas Watson ―A godly man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in,
prayer is poured out. Prayer is the soul‘s traffic with
Heaven; God comes down to us by His Spirit, and we go up to
Him by prayer.‖ Thomas Watson
Timothy Jones "God does not stand afar off as I struggle to speak. He
cares enough to listen with more than casual attention. He
translates my scrubby words and hears what is truly inside.
He hears my sighs and uncertain gropings as fine prose. --
Timothy Jones
Unknown "God's answers are wiser than our prayers. –Unknown
Unknown. "When asked how much time he spent in prayer, George
Muller's reply was, "Hours every day. But I live in the spirit
of prayer. I pray as I walk and when I lie down and when I
arise. And the answers are always coming." Source Unknown.
Vance Havner "The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting." Vance
Havner
W. S. Bowd "Prayer is weakness leaning on omnipotence." W. S. Bowd
Watchman Nee "Our prayers lay the track down which God‘s power can come.
Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it
cannot reach us without rails." Watchman Nee
Wayne A.
Grudem
―If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really
believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.‖ -Wayne A.
Grudem
Wellington Boone "The prayer that sparks revival begins long before the
countryside seems to awaken from its slumber in sin. It
starts when men fall on their knees and cry out to God.
That's where true intimacy with God takes place and we
begin the journey of being transformed into the image of
Christ. And as men are transformed, the course of a nation
can be changed." - Wellington Boone
Wesley L. Duewel ―Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the
harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing
on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.‖ -Wesley Duewel
Wesley L. Duewel "Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in
spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more
than a few minutes at a time. - Wesley L. Duewel
Wesley L. Duewel "Prayer has mighty power to move mountains because the
Holy Spirit is ready both to encourage our praying and to
remove the mountains hindering us. Prayer has the power to
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change mountains into highways. - Wesley L. Duewel
Wesley L. Duewel "Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to
bear in human need. -- Wesley L. Duewel
Wesley L. Duewel "Prayer is the master strategy that God gives for the
defeat and rout of Satan. -- Wesley L. Duewel
Wesley L. Duewel "Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast
enough to reap the harvest God desires. -- Wesley L. Duewel
Wesley L. Duewel "Prayer is the supreme way to be workers together with God.
-- Wesley L. Duewel
Wesley L. Duewel "Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all
difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing
forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is
to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer
that not only takes the initiative but continues on the
offensive for God until spiritual victory is won. - Wesley L.
Duewel
Why Revival
Tarries
"For this sin hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church.
We need to explore again the "exceeding great and precious
promises of God." In "that great day," the fire of judgment
is going to test the sort, not the size, of the work we have
done. That which is born in prayer will survive the test.
Prayer does business with God. Prayer creates hunger for
souls; hunger for souls creates prayer. The understanding
soul prays, the praying soul gets understanding. To the soul
who prays in self-owned weakness, the Lord gives His
strength...Lord, let us pray- Leonard Ravenhill, in Why
Revival Tarries,
William Carey "Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root
of all personal godliness." William Carey
William Cowper "Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on his
knees." William Cowper
William Crosby "The lesson of the last century—and the lesson of Pentecost
and the lesson of all similar seasons of blessing—is that the
incoming of God‘s life is conditioned by prayer. The
preliminary is prayer. The law is prayer; and it is not
arbitrary, but in the very nature of things necessary…When,
therefore, God‘s people ―give‖ themselves to prayer,
compelled by the heart‘s longings after God and after the
salvation of men, genuine revival is near…." William Crosby
William Gurnall ―Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been
wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his
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kingdom goes down. Satan‘s strategems against prayer are
three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that
be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in
prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to
hinder the success of thy prayer.‖ —William Gurnall
William J.
Federer
"I saw something today which affected me more than
anything I ever saw or read on religion. While the battle was
raging and the bullets were flying, Jackson rode by, calm as
if he were at home, but his head was raised toward heaven,
and his lips were moving evidently in prayer"-William J.
Federer
William Law "For the sun meets not the springing bud that stretches
towards him with half that certainty as God, the source of
all good, communicates Himself to the soul that longs to
partake of Him." - William Law
William Law "He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret
of a holy and happy life."- William Law
William Law "Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest
enjoyment of Him that we are capable of in this life. -
William Law
William Law "There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as
praying for him. -William Law
William Law "We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it
is impossible to live one way and pray another."-William Law
William Temple "When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't pray,
they don't."-William Temple
William
Wilberforce
"I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been
living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions
starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping
too late hours.‖ - William Wilberforce