PRAYER-POWER
Men may spurn
our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but
they are helpless against our prayers.
Earnest
intercession will be sure to bring love with it. I do not believe you can hate
a man for whom you habitually pray. If you dislike any brother Christian, pray
for him doubly, not only for his sake, but for your own, that you may be cured
of prejudice and saved from all unkind feeling.
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
I could no more doubt the power of prayer than I could disbelieve the law
of gravity.
C.H.
Spurgeon
It is easy to
criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles
against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms.
Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and
make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any
king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed
for them more, and criticized less.
J.C. Ryle
Time spent in
prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth
and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and
through us. Let our chief work as God's messengers be intercession; in it we
secure the presence and power of God to go with us.
Andrew Murray
Unless we are
willing to pay the price, and sacrifice time and attention and what appear
legitimate or necessary duties, for the sake of the heavenly gifts we need not
look for a large experience of the power of the heavenly world in our work.
Andrew
Murray
Ministry of
Intercession, p 15.
There is no
way that Christians in a private capacity can do so much to promote the work of
God and advance the kingdom of Christ, as by prayer.
Jonathan Edwards
Quoted in: Erroll Hulse, A Call to Extraordinary Prayer for Revival.
O God, make
us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make
our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and
become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
A Place of Quiet Rest, Moody, 2000, pg. 246
God does
nothing but in answer to prayer.
John Wesley
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
Hudson Taylor
The leader must use God’s power to move human hearts in
the direction he believes to be the will of God. Through prayer the leader has
the key to that complicated lock… In prayer we deal directly with God and only
in a secondary sense other people. The goal of prayer is the ear of God. Prayer
moves others through God’s influence on them. It is not the prayer that moves
people, but the God to whom we pray.
Oswald Sanders
Spiritual Leadership, Moody Publishers, 1967,
p. 90, 91.
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
Talking
to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
E.M. Bounds
We might not
be able to speak in any pulpit we choose, but we certainly can pray for any pulpit.
People may not be willing to listen to us, but they cannot stop us from praying
for them. We can only be in one place at one time, but our prayers can cover
more than one continent. What an awesome opportunity to realize that you can
cooperate with God and lift the spirit of an individual half a world away from
you.
Bill Thrasher
A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 138.
That which
begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
John Flavel
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA.
2000, p. 211
The reason
why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The
reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their
knees long before the battle came... Anticipate your battles; fight them on
your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.
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
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
Prayer is the key that unlocks all the
storehouses of God's infinite grace and power.
R.A. Torrey
The
Prayer of Power, Revell, 1924, p. 25.
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
Helplessness
is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
O.
Hallesby
The
key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God
for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
John Piper
Ask Whatever You Wish, Sermon, www.desiringGod.org. Used by Permission.
When we
depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend
upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get
what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
A.C. Dixon
[Prayer]
turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It
brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
Samuel Chadwick
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
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
Nothing lies
beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
Author Unknown
The shortest
distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees
and the floor. The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.
Author Unknown
Prayer does
not change God’s will it implements it.
Author
Unknown
Prayer is the
key which unlocks the door of God’s treasure-house. It is not too much to say
that 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-depend upon the practice of secret
prayer.
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930,
Introduction.
We are never so high as when we are on our knees.
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 1.
We may work
for Christ from morn till night; we may spend much time in Bible study; we may
be most earnest and faithful and “acceptable” in our preaching and in our
individual dealing, but none of these things can be truly effective unless we
are much in prayer. We shall only be full of good works; and not “bearing fruit
in every good work” (Col.
1:10). To be little with
God in prayer is to be little for God in service. Much secret prayer means much
public power. Yet is it not a fact that whilst our organizing is well nigh
perfect, our agonizing in prayer is well nigh lost?
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 2.
We may rest
fully assured of this – a man’s influence in the world can be gauged not by his
eloquence, or his zeal, or his orthodox, or his energy, but by his prayers.
Yes, and we will go farther and maintain that no man can live aright who does
not pray aright.
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 2.
Are not our
prayers so often ineffective and powerless – and sometimes even prayerless – because we rush unthinkingly and unpreparedly into God’s presence, without realizing the
majesty and glory of the God Whom we are approaching, and without reflecting
upon the exceeding great riches of His glory in Christ Jesus, which we hope to
draw upon?
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 5.
Is it not
worthwhile to be wholly and whole-heartedly yielded to Christ? The
half-and-half Christian is of very little use either to God or man. God cannot
use him, and man has no use for him, but considers him a hypocrite. One sin
allowed in the life wrecks at once our usefulness and our joy, and robs prayer
of its power.
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 6.
Men of power
are without exception men of prayer. God bestows His Holy Spirit in His
fullness only on men of prayer. And it is through the operation of the Spirit
that answers to prayer come.
Author
Unknown
The Kneeling Christian, circa 1930, ch. 10.
Prayer as it
comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint’s
prayer is put into the bow of Christ’s intercession it pierces the throne of
grace.
Thomas
Watson
I have
joyfully dedicated my whole life to the object of exemplifying how much may be
accomplished by prayer and faith.
George Mueller
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power
Billy Sunday
Our
God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our
asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are
too limited.
A.B. Simpson
There is no wonder
more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and
ministry of prayer…the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and
moving the wheel of the universe.
A.B. Simpson
Quoted
in: Bill Thrasher, A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p.
131.