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Jan 6, 2004
If men can work 8 hours a day you can pray 8 hours a day!-David Ravenhill talking about the argentina revival.
If men can work 8 hours a day you can pray 8 hours a day!-David Ravenhill talking about the argentina revival.
If He prayed, who was without sin, how much more ought sinners to pray! If He offered continual prayer, the whole night long, how much more ought we to add prayer to prayer, and to watch thereunto by night!-Cyprian (200-258)
Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray, then, my dear brother; pray, pray, pray.Edward Payson
Pray without ceasing; not in mere words, but in thought and desire, so that your life shall be one long and perpetual prayer.-Basil
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Self-esteem, self-ability in some pernicious shape has defamed and violated the temple which should be held sacred for God. Life-giving preaching costs the preacher much – death to self, crucifixion to the world, the travail of his own soul. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified manE. M. BoundsPower through Prayer
The preacher’s study ought to be a closet, a Bethel, an altar, a vision, and a ladder, that every thought might ascend heavenward ere it went manward; that every part of the sermon might be scented by the air of heaven and made serious, because God was in the study.E. M. BoundsThe Power of Prayer
The preacher must, by prayer, put God in the sermon. The preacher must, by prayer, move God toward the people before he can move the people to God by his words. The preacher must have had audience and ready access to God before he can have access to the people. An open way to God for the preacher is the surest pledge of an open way to the people.E. M. BoundsPower through prayer
Oh, Prayer, prayer! It brings and keeps God and man together. It raises up man to God, and brings down God to man.-George Whitefield
I urge upon you communion with Christ, a growing communion. There are curtains to be drawn aside in Christ that we never saw, and new foldings of love in Him. I despair that I shall ever win to the far end of that love, there are so many plies in it.Therefore dig deep, and sweat and labour and take pains for him, and set by as much time in the day for him as you can: He will be won in the labour.Samuel Rutherford
"Pray," But how? "Without ceasing." "Rejoice." But when? "Evermore." "Give thanks." for what? "In everything."-William Gurnall
Dr. Stephen Olford, respected preacher and author, recently stated, "Over the last ten years the Church in America has, perhaps, been at its most prayerless state, more than at any other time in the history of our nation!" Polls agree: Evangelical pastors pray an average of only 5 minutes a day and Christians pray only 3 minutes a day. The result is that the Church in America has a form of godliness, but is void of real power. Hence the connection: No Prayer! No Presence! No Power!
Prayer is the main line that leads straight to the throne of God. By it the Christian approaches God with a humble boldness of faith, takes hold of Him, wrestles with Him, and will not let Him go until he has His blessing.-William Gurnall
Secular reason sees a Christian on his knees and laughs at the feeble posture God's child assumes as his enemies descend upon him. Only divine insight can perceive what mighty preparations are actually taking place. Yet just as an unarmed soldier cannot achive the military exploits of a well-equipped infantryman, so the carnal Christian cannot hope to do the exploits for God which the committed Christian can expect through prayer.-William Gurnall
Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.-John R. Mott
To pray like Elijah, and to have results like Elijah, is the crying need of the times.-E.M. Bounds
His (Elijah's) Prayers have the power to stay the benignant course of nature. He stands in God's stead in this matter. The sober, passionless, unimaginative James, the brother of our Lord, in his Epistle, says to us: "See what prayer can do, by Elijah! Pray as Elijah prayed. Let the righteous man put forth to its fullest extent the energy of prayer. Let saints and sinners, angels and devils, see and feel the mighty potencies of prayer. See how the prayer of a good man has power and influence, and avails with God!" Elijah was in Elijah's praying. The whole man, with all his fiery forces, was in it. Almighty God to him was real.-E.M. Bounds
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.—Adam Clarke
Where are the Elijahs in the Church of the present day? Where are the men of like passions as he, who can pray as he prayed? We have thousands of men of like passions, but where are the men of like praying as he was?-E.M. Bounds
Prayer does not equip you for greater works. Prayer is the greater work.-Oswald Chambers
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