The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.
Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.
Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
Prayer succeeds when all else fails
By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.
To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.
. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.
Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
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