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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