5:16)
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
The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest
contribution to world evangelization in history.
Andrew Murray
Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
Leonard Ravenhill
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
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
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
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
History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
Edwin Orr
To arouse one man or woman to the tremendous power of prayer for others, is
worth more than the combined activity of a score of average Christians.
A. J. Gordon
A great many people do not pray because they do not feel any sense of need.
The sign that the Holy Spirit is in us is that we realize that we are empty,
not that we are full. We have a sense of absolute need. We come across
people who try us, circumstances that are difficult, conditions that are
perplexing, and all these things awaken a dumb sense of need, which is a
sign that the Holy Spirit is there. If we are ever free from the sense of
need, it is not because the Holy Spirit has satisfied us, but because we
have been satisfied with as much as we have. 'A man's reach should exceed
his grasp.' A sense of need is one of the greatest benedictions because it
keeps our life rightly related to Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
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
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together.
Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring
of each other's hearts in prayer.
Charles Finney
There is nothing that makes us love a man as much as praying for him.
William Law
"...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
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He
were praying.
A.B. Simpson
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise
our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers.
J. Sidlow Baxter
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
The missionary church is a praying church. The history of missions is a
history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's
evangelization hinges on prayer. Are thousands of missionaries and tens of
thousands of native workers needed? 'Pray ye therefore the Lord of the
harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest.'
John R. Mott
Give yourself to it, [the call to prayer] yield to it; and you will find not
only that you have not been wasting time with respect to the matter with
which you are dealing but that actually it has helped you greatly in that
respect. You will experience an ease and a facility in understanding what
you were reading, in thinking, in ordering matter for a sermon, in writing,
in everything which is quite astonishing. Such a call to prayer must never
be regarded as a distraction; always respond to it immediately, and thank
God if it happens to you frequently.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
O God, forgive the poverty and the pettiness of our prayers . Listen not to
our words but to the yearnings of our hearts. Hear beneath our petitions the
crying of our need.
Peter Marshall
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
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