Prayer succeeds when all else fails. - E.M. Bounds
22 We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution. - E.M. Bounds
23 Holy living is essential preparation for prayer. - E.M. Bounds
24 Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want. - F.J. Huegel
25 According to Soren Kierkegaard prayer is "a silent surrendering of everything to God."
26 All that true prayer seeks is God Himself, for with Him we get all we need. - The Kneeling Christian
27 The greatest blow sent Satan-ward is made by weeping warriors of prayer. - Dick Eastman
28 Bob Pierce, regarding prayer,"Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God."
29 "Men ought always to pray, and not faint." - Bible, Luke 18:1
30 I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came. - Adoniram Judson
31. I live in the spirit of prayer; I pray as I walk, when I lie down and when I rise, and the answers are always coming. - George Mueller
32 Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer! - Henry Martyn
33 Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them. - John Calvin
34. Only turning God's house into a house of fervent prayer will reverse the power of evil so evident in the world today. -- Jim Cymbala
35. I learned as never before that persistent calling upon the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times, there is simply no other way. - Jim Cymbala, in Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
36 The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. - Samuel Chadwick
37 The greatest hindrance to effective prayer is sin. Satan's greatest goal is to keep us from our knees. - Dick Eastman
38. We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. - Oswald Chambers
39 Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian. -- Andrew Murray
40 O Brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper- and sleep too- than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber. -- Andrew A. Bonar
41 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. -- James 5:16, The Holy Bible
42 The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts, and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline. -- Oswald Chambers
43 "The 1990's will be a decade where we must focus on prayer as the main thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us have never been greater and this is the only way we can release God's power to become victorious." -- John Maxwell, of Injoy Ministries (Amen! Still true! - Miles, 12/01/05)
44 The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God. -- Jim Cymbala
45 Prayer, real prayer, is lethal to Satan's cause. -- Selected
46 Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. -- E. M. Bounds
47 Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat. -- S. D. Gordon
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. -- James 4:7
48 Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. - The Kneeling Christian
49 He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal. -- C. S. Spurgeon
50 Even so, to our knees, O Christians! Desist the folly of sprinkling today's individual and international iniquity with theological rose water! Turn loose against this putrefaction those mighty rivers of weeping, of prayer, and of unctionized preaching until all be cleansed. -- Leonard Ravenhill
51 The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing. -- Andrew Murray
52 Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires. -- Wesley L. Duewel
53 Prayer is the Christian's first line of defense against demonic influence. Fervent, sincere prayer thwarts Satan's activity like nothing else. -- The Bondage Breaker
54 A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. -- E. M. Bounds
55 Pray alone. Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt at night. The best way to fight against sin is to fight it on our knees. -- Philip Henry
56 Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants. -- C. Peter Wagner
Holiness is as indispenable for a spiritual warrior as is eyesight for a military fighter pilot. - C. Peter Wagner
57 God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them. - Harold Lindsell
58 The Holy Spirit is the greatest teacher of prayer. Lord, teach us to pray. -- Selected
59 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, - depends upon the practice of secret prayer. - The Kneeling Christian
60 If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith. -- Martin Luther
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