To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
~ Billy Graham
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All vital praying makes a drain on a man’s vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.
~ J.H. Jowett
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Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
~ Oswald Chambers
~~~~~~~~History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
~ Edwin Orr
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Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
~ J. Sidlow Baxter
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
~ Oswald Chambers
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To desire revival…and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
~ A.W. Tozer
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God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.
~ Anselm of Canterbury
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Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural.
~ Oswald Chambers
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The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King…the fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.
~ Campbell Morgan
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I did not see that it is the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men….
~ C.S. Lewis
If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus…. He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship.
~ A.W. Tozer
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The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity…if we want to see might 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 might things which thou knowest not.
~ J. Hudson Taylor
All I know is that when I pray, coincidences happen; and when I don’t pray, they don’t happen.
~ Dan Hayes
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There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes
Of blinded men to instant, perfect sight;
There is a place where thou canst say, “Arise”
To dying captives, bound in chains of night;
There is a place where thou canst reach the store
Of hoarded gold and free it for the Lord;
There is a place–upon some distant shore–
Where thou canst send the worker and the Word.
Where is that secret place–dost thou ask, “Where?”
O soul, it is the secret place of prayer!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.
~ David Bryant
I have lived to thank God that not all my prayers have been answered.
~ Jean Ingelow
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Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
~ Edwin Keith
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
~ Hannah More
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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master’s presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in our Lord’s presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour will be very well employed.
~ St.Francis de Sales
~~~~~~~~ MAHATMA GANDHI, one of the busiest and most famous men in the world, used to set aside Monday as a Day of Silence. He needed the stillness, he said, in order to rest his vocal cords and to promote inner harmony in his soul amid the turmoil of life around him. I wonder what power would be released if all Christians devoted one day a week to listening to the voice of God to discern His coded message for our lives.. The Counsellor can only lead us if we receive His voice.
~ Paul Brand in “In His Image” page 211
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How to listen to God:
“We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.”
~ Charles Stanley
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“The Christian needs to be alone during a definite period of each day for meditation on scripture…and for prayer…even during times of spiritual dryness and apathy.It matters little what form of prayer we adopt…or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty. We simply make petitions and requests to One who has the heart of a Father.Of course, God’s will must be the primary object of our prayers… and we must recognize prayer as an instrument of God’s will. Therefore, we pray that God’s will may be done throughout the world…and in intercessory prayer we bring people… from around the world…into the presence of God.Every intercession potentially draws the one for whom it is intended into a life-changing relationship with Christ. And in intercession I move into the other man’s place. I inter his life…his guilt and distress. I am afflicted by his sins and his infirmity. If…as we pray…we recognize our own responsibility for the world’s guilt and our own guilt in the death of Christ…then we can act upon and affect the lives of men and women throughout the world.”
~ Dietrich Bonhofer
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I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, A shiny sliver out of one hour. I dropped it carelessly. O God! I knew not I held opportunity.
~ Hazel Lee
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To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The more we pray, the more we come to heartbeat of God. Prayer starts the communication process between ourselves and God. All the options of life fall before us. At that point we will either forsake our prayer life and cease to grow, or we will pursue our prayer life and let Him change us.
Either option is painful. To not grow in His likeness is to not enjoy his fulness. When this happens, a haunting voice continues to ask, ‘What could I have become in him if I would have been a man of prayer?’ To grow in His likeness is to enjoy His fullness. When this happens, the priorities of the world begin to fade away.”
~ Richard Foster
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Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping…when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.
~ Oswald Chambers
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I shall see no hope until the individual members of the church are praying for revival, perhaps meeting in one anothers’ homes, meeting in groups amongst friends, meeting together in churches, meeting anywhere you like, and praying with urgency and concentration for a shedding forth of the power of God…. There is no hope until we do.
~ D.D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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I’m convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that’s not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
~ Charles Stanley
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In the house of God there is never-ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God’s face gives joy that never fails. And from that everlasting, perpetual festivity there sounds in the ears of the heart a strain, melodious, mysterious, sweet-provided the world does not drown it.
~ St. Augustine from Patrologia
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time to pray.
~ S.D. Gordon
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Too many women have too much leisure time for their own good. They have time for criticism, gossip, faultfinding, and complaining. They have time for idle games and lay too much attention to things of the flesh. There are other women who have too little time for the enduring things of life. They are too busy flitting about doing this and that. They have great activity and much doing, but they lack time for building Christian characters. Both kinds of women — the too-idle and the too-busy need to take time for meditation and quiet repose in prayer to God. They need time to cultivate their souls that in turn they may cultivate their children’s lives.
~ Billy Graham
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An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
~ Charles Stanley
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Work, work, from morning until late at night. In fact, I have so much to do that I shall have to spend the first three hours in prayer.
~ Martin Luther
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I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not how I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished…. I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation of it.
~ George Mueller of Bristol
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