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 The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’ ~Billy Graham Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have…
Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun, but – no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!~ Oswald J. Smith Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So…
Prayer means that I come in contact with an almighty Christ, and almighty results happen along the lines He laid down. – Oswald Chambers All earthly things with earth will pass away; Prayer grasps eternity. Then pray, always pray! – E. H. Bickersteth Don’t hesitate to be enthusiastic—be on fire in the Spirit as you serve the Lord! 12 Be happy in your hope, stand your ground when you’re in trouble, and devote yourselves to prayer. (Romans 12:11-12, CEB) What…
It is in the field of prayer that life’s critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?~ J….
When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him. And he hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered. ~Ole Hallesby Intercessory prayer is the sweetest prayer God ever hears…. The more your prayer is like Christ’s, the sweeter it will be…. Intercessory…
