PRAYER-ANSWERED
The
story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
The
greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding
with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
Oswald Chambers
We may expect
answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should
be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had
received no reply.
C.H. Spurgeon
Exposition of Psalm 27.
In spiritual
things, when God has raised a desire, He always gratifies it; hence the longing
is prophetic of the blessing. In no case is the desire of the living thing
excited to produce distress, but in order that it may seek and find
satisfaction.
C.H.
Spurgeon
The Treasury of David, Psalm 145:16.
God will fill
the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of
prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17).
So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He
will prepare His hand to fill.
Thomas Watson
Answers to
prayer, however, do not depend upon our feelings, but upon the trustworthiness
of the Promiser.
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 4.
To call it
wonderful is to show our want of faith. It is natural to God to answer prayer:
normal, not extraordinary.
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 4.
It is only
when whatsoever we do is done in His name that He will do whatsoever we ask in
His name.
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 6.
God’s answer
to prayer may be “Yes,” or it may be “No.” It may be “Wait,”
for it may be that He plans a much larger blessing than we imagined, and one which
involves other lives as well as our own.
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 8.
It is as
natural to Him to answer prayer as it is for us to ask. How He delights to hear
our petitions, and how He loves to answer them!
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 9.
God delights
to answer prayer; and He has given us His word that He will answer.
Author Unknown
I have
joyfully dedicated my whole life to the object of exemplifying how much may be
accomplished by prayer and faith.
George Muller
Suppose
that we believers in the Lord Jesus make our requests to God. Suppose also
that, as far as we can honestly judge, the obtaining of our requests would be for
our spiritual good and for the honor of God. We must then continue in prayer until the blessing is given to us. Furthermore,
we have to believe that God does hear
us and will answer our prayers. Frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained and in not expecting the blessing. As assuredly as
any individual uses these points, so assuredly will his requests be granted.
George
Muller
The Autobiography of George Muller, 1984, p. 219.
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When a man’s
mouth is thus opened, God’s ears are never closed. When the penitent is talking
the Savior is listening.
W. Graham Scroggie
A Guide to the Psalms, Kregel, 1995, p. 265.