Prayer
Quotes
Miles Bennett (The
"collector, not the author of them)
"MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY, AND NOT FAINT"
"Action without prayer is arrogance,
prayer without action is hypocrisy."
- Jose Zayas
(above quote added 8/5/04)
(Latest
quote is # 318, below, added 10/01/08)
“If we pray little,
it is probably because
we do not really believe
that prayer accomplishes much at all.”
(Wayne A. Grudem,
Systematic Theology:
An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, p. 377.)
"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 (added
9/05/07)
"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
Murray McCheyne
"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
"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.
"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 (added 12/14/03)
1 You can do more than
pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have
prayed. -- A. J. Gordon
2 I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. --
Martin Luther
3 The story of every great Christian achievement is
the history of answered prayer. -- E. M. Bounds
4 The greatest and best talent that God gives to any
man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer. --Alexander Whyte
5 The world needs more true praying to save it from
the reign and ruin of Satan. -- E.M. Bounds
6 Prayer "is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand
blessings." --Chrysostom
7 Prayer is the supreme way to be workers together with God. -- Wesley L. Duewel
8 Prayer is the master strategy that God gives for the defeat and rout of
Satan. -- Wesley L. Duewel
9 Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human
need. -- Wesley L. Duewel
10 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
11 Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him
into active aid. -- E.M. Bounds
12 The first and last stages of holy living are
crowned with praying. -- E.M. Bounds
13 The conditions of praying are the conditions of
righteousness, holiness, and salvation. -- E. M. Bounds
14 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
15 Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to
pop-calls. - E. M. Bounds
16 Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer. - E.M. Bounds
17 Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer. - E. M.
Bounds
18 The goal of prayer is the ear of God. E. M. Bounds
19 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
20 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
21 Prayer succeeds when all else fails. - E.M. Bounds
22 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
23 Holy living is essential preparation for prayer. - E.M. Bounds
24 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
25 According to Soren Kierkegaard prayer is "a
silent surrendering of everything to God."
26 All that true prayer seeks is God Himself, for with Him we get all we need.
- The Kneeling Christian
27 The greatest blow sent Satan-ward is made by
weeping warriors of prayer. - Dick Eastman
28 Bob Pierce, regarding prayer,"Let my heart be
broken with the things that break the heart of God."
29 "Men ought always to pray, and not faint."
- Bible, Luke 18:1
30 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
31. 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
32 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
33 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
34. Only turning God's house into a house of fervent prayer will reverse the
power of evil so evident in the world today. -- Jim Cymbala
35. 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
36 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
37 The greatest hindrance to effective prayer is sin.
Satan's greatest goal is to keep us from our knees. - Dick Eastman
38. We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. - Oswald
Chambers
39 Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian. -- Andrew
Murray
40 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
41 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be
healed.The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous
man availeth much. -- James 5:16, The Holy Bible
42 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
43 "The 1990's will be a decade where we must focus on prayer as the main
thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us
have never been greater and this is the only way we can release God's power to
become victorious." -- John Maxwell, of Injoy
Ministries (Amen! Still
true! - Miles, 12/01/05)
44 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
45 Prayer, real prayer, is lethal to Satan's cause. -- Selected
46 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
47 Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and
insisting on his retreat. -- S. D. Gordon
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil,
and he will flee from you. -- James 4:7
48 Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
- The Kneeling Christian
49 He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his
disposal. -- C. S. Spurgeon
50 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
51 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
52 Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap
the harvest God desires. -- Wesley L. Duewel
53 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
54 A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. --
E. M. Bounds
55 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
56 Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love
God and do what He wants. -- C. Peter Wagner
Holiness is as indispenable for a spiritual warrior
as is eyesight for a military fighter pilot. - C. Peter Wagner
57 God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character
in them. - Harold Lindsell
58 The Holy Spirit is the greatest teacher of prayer.
Lord, teach us to pray. -- Selected
59 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
60 If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of
the fire of faith. -- Martin Luther
61 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
62 He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for
heaven. E. M. Bounds
63 The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the
fountain of living. -- E. M. Bounds
64 Nothing you can do will benefit you more than
prayer. -- Paul Y. Cho
65. When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing He does is set
them a-praying. - Matthew Henry
66. "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.
67. 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
68. 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
69. 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
70. Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things. - John Wesley
71. In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer. -
John Wesley
73. 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
74. To pray with bitterness toward fellowmen nullifies hours on our knees.- Dick Eastman
75. Prayer is the highest order of business, for it links a powerless human to
the creative force of God's sovereign power.- Selected
76. The price of prayerlessness far exceeds the price of prayer.- Selected
77. TAKE TIME TO PRAY
78. The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the Great
Jehovah yields. Prayer is the sovereign remedy.-
Robert Hall
79. 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
80. 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
81. 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
82. Prevailing , or effectual prayer, is that prayer
which attains the blessing that it seeks. - Charles G. Finney
83. 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).
84. Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him
alive, but the evidence that he is alive. - Oswald Chambers
85. A prayer-meeting is an index to the state of religion in a Church. -
Charles G. Finney
86. Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it. -Oswald Chambers
87. 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
88. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud, and He shall
hear me. - David, Psalm 55:17
89. 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
90. ...The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much.- James 5:16b
91. 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
92. Prayer is the acid test of devotion. - Samuel Chadwick
93. The only power that God will yield to is that of prayer. - Leonard Ravenhill
94. One of the cornerstones of a healthy church is having people who are
faithful in prayer. - Selected
95. We don't have praying churches, just praying people who make up praying
churches. - Selected
96. It is always too soon to quit praying, even when praying is the last thing
we seem able to do. - Harold Lindsell, in When You
Pray
96b. Pray without ceasing.- 1Thessalonians 5:17
97. 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
98. Prayerlessness is sin. - Harold Lindsell
98b. God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you.
- Samuel, from 1Samuel 12:23
98c. Prayerlessness is disobedience, for God's command is that men ought always
to pray and not faint. To be prayerless is to fail
God, for He says, "Ask of me." - Leonard Ravenhill, in Revival Praying
98d. Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and
mighty things, which thou knowest not.-Jer. 33:3
99. Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.
-Thomas Hooker, Puritan
100. 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
101. The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer. -
Leonard Ravenhill
102. We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate
prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ. -E. M. Bounds
103. 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
104. Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty;
stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit. -S.D. Gordon
105. The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer. - The
Kneeling Christian
106. People may spurn our appeals, reject our messages, oppose our arguments,
despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers. - Thomas
Lindberg.
107. 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 Christian
108. 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)
109. The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always
God-important. - Oswald Chambers
110. Unless the heart is right the prayer must be wrong. - The Kneeling
Christian
111. 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
112. 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
113. 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
114. 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
115. ...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
116. God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and
winning men back is intercession. -S. D. Gordon
117. The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God. -
Herbert Lockyer
118. The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture,
tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
119. ...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
120. 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
121. When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.
-C. H. Spurgeon
122. God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the
condition of their heart is ready for it. -C. H. Spurgeon
123. 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
124. Prayer plumes the wings of God's young eaglets so that they may learn to
mount above the clouds. Prayer brings inner strength to God's warriors and
sends them forth to spiritual battle with their muscles firm and their armor in
place. - C.H. Spurgeon
125. 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
126. God's mercy visits every house where night and morning prayers are made,
but where these are neglected, sin is incurred. -C. H. Spurgeon
127. 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
128. 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
129. Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a
farce and a delusion. - E. M. Bounds
130. Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward
God. -E. M. Bounds
131. 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
132. The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
- E. M. Bounds
A DAILY PRAYER TO PRAY
133. 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
134. Prayer is not a load to be carried but a gift to be enjoyed.- Selected
134b. Prayer makes the darkened clouds withdraw;
Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw;
Gives exercise to faith and love,
Brings every blessing from above. - Leonard Ravenhill
135. 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
136. Our greatest victories are won on our knees and with empty stomachs- Julio
C. Ruibal
137.Continue in prayer, and though the blessing tarry, it must come; in God's
own time it must appear to you.- C. H. Spurgeon
138. ...a man who kneels before God will stand before men.-
Leonard Ravenhill
139. ... he that is never on his knees on earth, shall
never stand upon his feet in heaven.- C. H. Spurgeon
140. 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
141. 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
142 If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full
power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural. - Andrew
Murray
143. 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
144. 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
145. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer
of the upright is His delight. Proverbs 15:8
146. 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,
147. 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
148. 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
His holiness. - E. M. Bounds
149. 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
150. ...our Lord prayed because He was concentrated on God; that is, He did not
worship prayer. - Oswald Chambers
151. ... 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
152. 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
152b. The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present
all the time in every condition. - Oswald Chambers
153. 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
154. 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
155. To pray strenuously needs careful cultivation. We have to learn the most
natural methods of expressing ourselves to our Father. - Oswald Chambers
156. ...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
157. 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
158. Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral
working of the Holy Spirit. - Oswald Chambers
159. 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
160. Prayer means that I come in contact with an almighty Christ, and almighty
results happen along the lines He laid down. - Oswald Chambers
161. See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you
ought to do., Oswald Chambers
162. 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
163. 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)
164. All earthly things with earth will pass away; Prayer grasps
eternity. Then pray, always pray! - E. H. Bickersteth
166. True prayer is a lonely business - Samuel Chadwick
167. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth
our infirmity in prayer.
The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends our deadness in prayer.
The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom delivers us from ignorance in this holy
art of prayer.
The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Fire delivers us from coldness in prayer.
The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in our weakness as we
pray. - Leonard Ravenhill
168. (Re: "rend your hearts" Joel 2:13) We rend
our hearts:
by godly consideration and examination;
by the conviction of the Holy Spirit;
by recognition of our failure to pray;
by confessing that we have more appetite for material food than for spiritual;
by acknowledging that we like the company of men more than the company of God;
by abhorring ourselves because we love to play more than pray. - Leonard Ravenhill,
169. Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.- Andrew Murray
170. A sense of the need of souls;
a Christlike love in the heart;
a consciousness of personal impotence;
faith in the power of prayer;
courage to persevere in spite of refusal;
and the assurance of an abundant reward;
these are the dispositions that constitute a Christian an intercessor, and call
forth the power of prevailing prayer. - Andrew Murray
171. Every work of God can be traced to some kneeling form. - Dwight L. Moody
172. ...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
173. Learn to be vicarious in public prayer. Allow two rivers to come through
you: the
174. We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. Oswald
Chambers
175. Prayer is God's ordained way, the insignificant way of prayer. -- Oswald
Chambers
176. ...the purpose of prayer is to reveal the Presence of God, equally present
at all times and in every condition. -- Oswald Chambers
177. Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is
never to fail. - Amzi Clarence Dixon
178. 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
179. HOW TO PRAY:
A. Pray Genuinely. Matt. 6:5 In prayer be genuine, for you are dealing with
God.
B. Pray Secretly. Matt. 6:6 All real prayer is private with God the only
auditor.
C. Pray Definitely. Matt. 6:7 God wants us to express our needs in a clear,
intelligent manner.
D. Pray Fraternally. Matt.6:9 "Our Father" We are...united in family
ties to all Christians.
E. Pray Reverently. Matt. 6:9 " Hallowed be thy name" Let no word
pass our lips which in any way takes the name of God in vain.
F. Pray Loyally and Hopefully. Matt. 6:10 "Thy kingdom come" While we
are permitted to be lovingly familiar, we must be loyally true.
G. Pray Submissively and Aggressively. Matt. 6:10 "Thy will be done"
His will is law, and it is never violated. Such is the standard we should have
before us, and we should be satisfied with nothing less.
H. Pray dependently. Matt. 6:11 "Give us this day our daily bread"
...the word "daily"...has in it no thought of time. It means
"needed", "necessary."
I. Pray Cautiously. Matt. 6:13 "lead us not into temptation, but deliver
us from the Evil One." We should keep as far from danger as possible.
-taken from sermon "How to Pray",
by Amzi Clarence
180. ...Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we
suffer, but because Jesus suffered. - Oswald Chambers
181. 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
182. God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground. -
Oswald Chambers
183. The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God. - Oswald Chambers
183b. 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 know God Himself. - Oswald Chambers
184. 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
185. 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
186. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life. - Oswald Chambers
187. 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
188. 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
189. 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
190. 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
191. Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray. - George Campbell Morgan
192. 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
193. Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the
impossible. — Corrie ten Boom
194. Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical
amendment of life; not before. - A.W.Tozer
195. "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
196. "O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot
on earth." -- Andrew Murray
197. "The secret of praying is praying in secret." -- Leonard Ravenhill
198. "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
199. 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
200. 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
201. 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
202. Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our
Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid. - Oswald Chambers
203. Our true character comes out in the way we pray. - Oswald Chambers
204. Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint. - Oswald Chambers
205. 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
206. Prayer is the answer to every problem there is. - Oswald Chambers
207. Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to
answer your prayer. - Oswald Chambers
208. 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
209.
THE LEVELS OF PREVAILING PRAYER
Level 1: Ask. Matt. 7:7
Level 2: Seek. The asking becomes longer and more intense.
Level 3: Knock. Interceding becomes even more urgent and insistent.
Level 4: Fast. To the previous crescendo of intensity and urgency of intercession,fasting is added.
Level 5: Prayer burden. The burden may be intense and brief or perhaps extend
over a longer time.
Level 6: Wrestling in prayer. Very intense praying.
Level 7: Prayer warfare. Prayer battle, extending over a prolonged period.
Wesley L. Duewel, in Mighty Prevailing Prayer
210. 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
211. ( Re: General Stonewall Jackson, recounted to Chaplain William W. Bennett)
" 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" America's God and
Country, William J. Federer, p.27.
212. 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
213. 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
214. 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 change mountains into highways. - Wesley L. Duewel
215. 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
216. 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
217. 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
218. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer
of the upright is His delight. Proverbs 15:8
219. The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth
the prayer of the righteous. Proverbs 15:29
220. He that turneth away his ear from hearing the
law, even his prayer shall be abomination. Prov. 28:9
221. 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, in Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
222. Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we
continually need the Lord. - Jim Cymbala
223. The main thing that God asks for is our attention. - Jim Cymbala, quoting a devotional writer
224. "...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
225. "It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it
a den of thieves." - Luke 19:46
226. "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
227. "It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye
have made it a den of thieves." - Matthew 21:13
228. " 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
229.Only turning God's house into a house of fervent prayer will reverse the
power of evil so evident in the world today - Jim Cymbala
230. Prayer for Disassociation from Deceiving Spirits:
"Heavenly Father, I commit myself unreservedly to Your will. If I have
been deceived in any way, I pray that You will open my eyes to the deception. I
command in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that all deceiving spirits depart
from me and I renounce and reject all counterfeit gifts (or any other spiritual
phenomena). Lord, if it is from You, bless it and cause it to grow that Your
body may be blessed and edified through it. Amen."
- Neil Anderson, in The Bondage Breaker, Harvest House Publishers;
copyright 1990, 1993; Eugene Oregon 97402; soft cover p.165
231. Prayer is the Christian's first line of defense against demonic influence.
Fervent, sincere prayer thwarts Satan's activity like nothing else. - Adapted
from statements from The Bondage Breaker
232. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may
be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much. - The Holy Bible, James 5:16
232. 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 pride. - Selected
233. Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love. -
Richard Foster
234. 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.
235. "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
236. 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
237. Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
- E. M. Bounds
238. ". . . 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
239. He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for
heaven. - E.M. Bounds
240. When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
- A.W. Tozer
241. Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the
study of the Word of God. - R.A Torrey
242. 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, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an
end. - R.A. Torrey
243. 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
244. "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
245. 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
246. 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
247. 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
248. 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
248b. "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 (added 6/13/05)
249. 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
250. The men who have guided the destiny of the
251. 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
252. Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of Him
that we are capable of in this life. - William Law
253. You can do more than pray after you've prayed, but you cannot do more than
pray until you have prayed. - John Bunyan
254. 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
255. 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
256. 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 fulfill 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
257. 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.
258. "To despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are
they who delight to converse with God by prayer." - John Bunyan
259. More of John Bunyan's quotations on prayer:
"Before you enter into prayer, ask thy soul these questions:
1. To what end, O my soul, art thou retired into this place?
Art thou not come to discourse the Lord in prayer?
Is he present; will he hear thee?
Is he merciful; will he help thee?
Is thy business slight; is it not concerning the welfare of thy soul?
What words wilt thou use to move him to compassion?
To make thy preparation complete, consider that thou art but dust and ashes,
and he the great God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that clothes himself
with light as with a garment; that thou art a vile sinner, he a holy God; that
thou art but a poor crawling worm, he the omnipotent Creator.
In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without
words, than thy words without a heart.
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will 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
260. "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
261. A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the
closet. - E. M. Bounds
262. "Prayer is the greatest vehicle to have a congregation united in
seeing Christ's mission fulfilled." - Oni Kittle
262. 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
263. "No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater
than his prayer life." - Leonard Ravenhill
264. "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
265. "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
266. "Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit
but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him,
but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear." -
F. B. Meyer
267. "Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or
followed up by private praying." - E. M Bounds
268. "Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential
and yet more neglected than prayer." - Fenelon
269. The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect
understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things. –O. Chambers
270. . "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
271. "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 most
emphasis on." - Oswald Chambers
272. "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
273. "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." -
274. "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
275. "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
276. "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)
277. 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
278. The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more
answers to prayer you will experience. –O. Hallesby
279. 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
280. 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
281. 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
282. A loving spirit is a condition of believing prayer. We cannot be wrong
with man and right with God. The spirit of prayer is essentially the spirit of
love. Intercession is simply love at prayer. - The Kneeling Christian,
Chapter 11
283. "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
284. 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. When we can truthfully
say to our Father, "All that I am and have is thine,"
then He can say to us, "All that is mine is thine."-
The Kneeling Christian, end of Chapter 11
285. "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
286. "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
287. "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"
288. 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"
289. "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
290. "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
291. "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, Enduement, 56-58 (added 6/8/04)
292. "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." -
293. "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,
commenting on Matthew
6:5, in Volume 5. (added 8/26/04)
294. "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.; THE
PRAYER-MEETING, and ITS HISTORY, as identified with the life and power of godliness, and the
revival of religion;
copyright 1870; p. 158 (added 1/15/05)
295. "More things
are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." - Lord Alfred Tennyson
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson) (added 1/25/05)
296. "Without prayer
religion in the soul would die, as without respiration temporal death would
ensue. Prayer is the breath of the soul." - Johnston, J. B.; THE
PRAYER-MEETING, and ITS HISTORY, as identified with the life and power of godliness, and the
revival of religion;
copyright 1870; p. 73 (added 1/30/05)
297. "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
(1091-1153) (added 2/06/05)
298. "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.; THE
PRAYER-MEETING, and ITS HISTORY, as identified with the life and power of godliness, and the
revival of religion;
copyright 1870; p. 209 (added 2/06/05)
299. "Wise is he in the
day of trouble who knows his true source of strength and who fails not to
pray." - E. M. Bounds in The
Essentials of Prayer (added 8/09/05)
300. "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, The Power of Prayer (added
8/07/05)
301. "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,
in How to Pray (added 12/01/05)
302. “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 (added 7/01/07, courtesy of Lars Widerberg,
Intercessors Network)
303. “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 (added
7/01/07, courtesy of Lars Widerberg, Intercessors
Network)
304. “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 (added 10/27/07), courtesy of Lars Widerberg,
Intercessors Network)
305. “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 (added 11/13/07), courtesy of Lars Widerberg,
Intercessors Network)
306. “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. (added 11/29/07)
307. "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." – The Sovereignty of God, Arthur Pink, Baker,
p178 (added 12/02/07)
308. "A much praying
minister will receive an entrance into God's will he would otherwise know
nothing of." - Andrew Murray (added 12/30/07)
309. “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 (added
3/14/08)
310. “The real and obvious test
of a genuine work of God is the prevalence of the Spirit of Prayer.” E.M.
Bounds (added 4/27/08)
311. “There are more battles won through prayer
than by any other means.” – Chuck Smith,
312. “If we pray little, it is
probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at
all.” (Wayne A. Grudem, Systematic
Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, p. 377.) (added 5/29/08)
313. “The greatest benefactor
this age could have is the man who will bring the teachers and the church back
to prayer.” – E.M. Bounds (added 6/12/08)
314. "A full measure of the
Word and prayer each day gives a healthy and powerful life" - Andrew Murray (added 6/25/08)
315. “The spirit of prayer
should rule our spirits and our conduct.” – E.M. Bounds, Purpose In Prayer (added
8/04/08)
316. “Now PRAYER is a duty
founded on natural religion; the very heathens never neglected it, though many
Christian heathens amongst us do:” – George Whitefield, in Intercession, Every Christian’s Duty; Sermon around
1771 (added 8/23/08)
317. “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 (added 9/08/08)
318. “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 (added 10/01/08)
319. "Wise is he in the day
of trouble who knows his true source of strength and who fails not to
pray." -- E. M. Bounds (added 4/17/09)
320. “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
321. “And truly, my own experience tells me, that there is
nothing that prevails more with God than persistence.” – John Bunyan, in his
sermon “Praying in the Spirit” (added
6/30/09)
322. “Prayer opens the heart of God, and is a means by which
the empty soul is filled.” – John Bunyan, Ibid. (added 6/30/09)
323. “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 church, with submission, in faith,
to the will of God.” – John Bunyan Ibid. (added 6/30/09)
324. “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 (added 8/06/09)
325. “God never give us discernment to criticize but to
intercede.” - Oswald Chambers
(added 3/21/11)
326. "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 (added 12/21/11)
Just
Pray - An excellent site promoting personal and
corporate prayer, a "must visit."
"What Saith
the Scripture" web site, well worth
exploring.
Christian
Prayer Quotes – Well worth perusing (added 11/22/07 – Thanksgiving Day)
Mayoral Day of Prayer Proclamation
Fire from the Altar of Prayer
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Books I've found helpful
- Prayer Powerpoints, A book of quotations about prayer, by Randall
D. Roth
- Partners in Prayer, a superb, dynamic book on prayer by Dr. John
Maxwell
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