Thu nget hoih na mudah tuamtuam

 "It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves." -         Luke 19:46

 "Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves." - Mark 11:17

 "It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." - Matthew 21:13

 " Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'? Does it ever say, 'My house shall be called a house of music'? Of course not. The Bible does say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'. Preaching, music, the reading of the Word - these things are fine; I believe in and practice all of them. But they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling. the honest truth is that I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons." - Jim Cymbala

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

 Prayer for Disassociation from Deceiving Spirits:
"Heavenly Father, I commit myself unreservedly to Your will. If I have been deceived in any way, I pray that You will open my eyes to the deception. I command in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that all deceiving spirits depart from me and I renounce and reject all counterfeit gifts (or any other spiritual phenomena). Lord, if it is from You, bless it and cause it to grow that Your body may be blessed and edified through it. Amen." -  Neil Anderson

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

 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

 Humility is the way for us to open communication with the merciful God of heaven. It is far better to pray in a private "room," be unseen by man, and have the approval of God than to give a public display of prayer and have a heart full of pride. - Selected

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love. - Richard Foster

 Intercession is cooperation with the Holy Spirit in his work to convict the world concerning sin, and righteousness, and judgment. John 16:8

 "A powerful and necessary weapon in the prayer warfare is thinking, sharp, discerning thinking. 1 Peter 4:7. This attitude is a manifestation of the kingdomof God in the midst of turmoil." - Lars Widerberg

 Regarding Jesus Christ, the Cornerstone----"Praying the cornerstone into its right and rightful place causes upheaval and sanctification. Praying the cornerstone into a society causes turning points. Praying the cornerstone is prophetic work, demanding work. Praying the cornerstone causes purging fire, first among the intercessors. Without this, any attempt to bring about awakening will miss the mark." - Lars Widerberg

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion. - E. M. Bounds

 ". . . 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." -              E. M. Bounds

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven. - E.M. Bounds

 When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves. - A.W. Tozer

 Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God. - R.A Torrey

When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, "he trembles" as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end. - R.A. Torrey

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness. E.M. Bounds 

"Prayer must be aflame. Its ardor must consume. Prayer without fervor is as a sun without light or heat, or as a flower without beauty or fragrance. A soul devoted to God is a fervent soul, and prayer is the creature of that flame. He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven." - E. M. Bounds

 

Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls. - E. M. Bounds

So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God's Word. - C. H. Spurgeon

No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying. - E. M. Bounds

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. God does nothing but in answer to prayer. - John Wesley

 "Work as if everything depends on you; pray as if everything depends on God." - John Wesley

 I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day. -   Abraham Lincoln

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible. - Billy Graham

 Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of Him that we are capable of in this life. - William Law

You can do more than pray after you've prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. - John Bunyan

 I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me.The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours. - William Wilberforce

To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts. It is not our prayer which moves the Lord Jesus. It is Jesus who moves us to pray. - O. Hallesby

May God open our eyes to see what the holy ministry of intercession is, to which, as His royal priesthood, we have been set apart. May He give us a large and strong heart to believe what mighty influence our prayers can exert. And may all fear as to our being able to fulfill our vocation vanish as we see Jesus, living ever to pray, living in us to pray, and standing surety for our prayer life." - Andrew Murray

O believing brethren! what an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe." - Robert MurrayMcCheyne.

"To despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer." - John Bunyan

More of John Bunyan's quotations on prayer:
"Before you enter into prayer, ask thy soul these questions:
1. To what end, O my soul, art thou retired into this place?
Art thou not come to discourse the Lord in prayer?
Is he present; will he hear thee?
Is he merciful; will he help thee?
Is thy business slight; is it not concerning the welfare of thy soul?
What words wilt thou use to move him to compassion?

To make thy preparation complete, consider that thou art but dust and ashes, and he the great God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that clothes himself with light as with a garment; that thou art a vile sinner, he a holy God; that thou art but a poor crawling worm, he the omnipotent Creator.

In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.
When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than thy words without a heart.
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God. and a scourge for Satan." -     John Bunyan

 "Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying." - E. M. Bounds

 A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet. - E. M. Bounds

"Prayer is the greatest vehicle to have a congregation united in seeing Christ's mission fulfilled." - Oni Kittle

 It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God. - E. M. Bounds

 "No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life." - Leonard Ravenhill

"To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different." - Leonard Ravenhill

"Pray absolutely for those things you may pray for absolutely. Pray conditionally for those things you may pray for conditionally. For those things you can't pray for - don't." - Paul Gerhardt

 "Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear." - F. B. Meyer

 "Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying." - E. M Bounds

 "Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer." - Fenelon

 The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things. – O. Chambers

"All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent." - R. A. Torrey

"As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer." -- O. Hallesby

The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience. – O. Hallesby

 "When we pray for others the Spirit of God works in the unconscious domain of their being that we know nothing about, and the one we are praying for knows nothing about, but after the passing of time the conscious life of the one prayed for begins to show signs of unrest and disquiet. We may have spoken until we are worn out, but have never come anywhere near, and we have given up in despair. But if we have been praying, we find on meeting them one day that there is the beginning of a softening in an inquiry and a desire to know something. It is that kind of intercession that does most damage to Satan's kingdom. It is so slight, so feeble in its initial stages that if reason is not wedded to the light of the Holy Spirit, we will never obey it, and yet it is that kind of intercession that the New Testament places most emphasis on." -                   Oswald Chambers

"The prayer that sparks revival begins long before the countryside seems to awaken from its slumber in sin. It starts when men fall on their knees and cry out to God. That's where true intimacy with God takes place and we begin the journey of being transformed into the image of Christ. And as men are transformed, the course of a nation can be changed." - Wellington Boone

 "The true spirit of prayer is no other than God's own Spirit dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings and pantings. It naturally leads to God, to converse with him by prayer." - Jonathan Edwards

 "For the sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half that certainty as God, the source of all good, communicates Himself to the soul that longs to partake of Him." - William Law

"Your prayer life denotes how much you depend on your own ability, and how much you really believe in your heart when you sing, "Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to Thy cross I cling...." The more self- confidence you have, the less you pray. The less self-confidence you have, the more you have to pray." - Lars Widerberg

 By intercessory prayer we can hold off Satan from other lives and give the Holy Ghost a chance with them. No wonder Jesus put such tremendous emphasis on prayer. – Oswald Chambers

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. - Oswald Chambers

 Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men. - Oswald Chambers

 He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else. E.M.Bounds

 All hindrance to prayer arises from ignorance of the teaching of God's Holy Word on the life of holiness He has planned for all His children, or from an unwillingness to consecrate ourselves fully to Him. When we can truthfully say to our Father, "All that I am and have is thine," then He can say to us, "All that is mine is thine."- The Kneeling Christian

 "Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you." - Andrew Murray

"At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer." - Arthur Wallis

"Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned." - Arthur Wallis 

All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God." - Arthur Wallis 

 "Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite and vivid consciousness that we are talking to God and should believe that He is listening to our petition and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him. We should look to the Holy Spirit to really lead us into the presence of God and should not be hasty in words until He has actually brought us there." -       R. A. Torrey

 "Each time you intercede, be quiet first and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, of how He delights to hear Christ, of your place in Christ, and expect great things." -         Andrew Murray

 "I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The world must be left outside until God alone fills the vision...God has promised to answer prayer. It is not that He is unwilling, for the fact is, He is more willing to give than we are to receive. But the trouble is, we are not ready..." -           Oswald J. Smith

 "There must be closet praying! It is in the closet that we establish the beautiful habit of spontaneous praying on every occasion. When we are fresh out of the closet we are quick to pray about every turn of events. Unceasing prayer is God's avenue for His children to react to all happenings." - Clyde Martin

"You may as soon find a living man that does not breathe, as a living Christian that does not pray. For this shall every one that is godly pray. If prayerless, then graceless." Matthew Henry

"True revival lives in prayer. Prayer draws power from revival. We need only to follow the way-marks of their remarkable history to be satisfied of their inseparable unity." - Johnston, J. B

"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." - Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Without prayer religion in the soul would die, as without respiration temporal death would ensue. Prayer is the breath of the soul." - Johnston, J. B

"Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed or any other place, pray there; thy temple is there." -             Bernard of Clairvaux 

"The prayer-meeting furnishes a very accurate discriminating test of character. The live Christian loves its enjoyments, the spiritually dead have no delights there." — Johnston, J. B

"Wise is he in the day of trouble who knows his true source of strength and who fails not to pray." - E. M. Bounds

"Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to the price and that price is not a big salary but great praying." R.A. Torrey

"Prayer, in every care and anxiety and need of life, with thanksgiving, is the means God has appointed for our obtaining freedom from all anxiety, and the peace of God which passeth all understanding." R.A. Torrey

“A godly man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in, prayer is poured out. Prayer is the soul’s traffic with Heaven; God comes down to us by His Spirit, and we go up to Him by prayer.” Thomas Watson 

“God’s greatest gifts to man come through travail. Whether we look into the spiritual or temporal sphere, can we discover anything, any great reform, any beneficial discovery, any soul-awakening revival, which did not come through the tolls and tears, the vigils and blood-shedding of men and woman whose sufferings were the pangs of its birth?” F. B. Meyer 

“God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.” A. T. Pierson 

“All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.” - Samuel Logan Brengle 

“Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble his heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.” - Adam Clarke

"Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.  Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yes, of helplessness.  Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God." – Arthur Pink, Baker

"A much praying minister will receive an entrance into God's will he would otherwise know nothing of." - Andrew Murray 

“Prayer humbles us, stretches us, shapes us, encourages us, challenges us, deepens us, and leads us along the pathway of spiritual growth.” - Dr. Ray Prichard 

“The real and obvious test of a genuine work of God is the prevalence of the Spirit of Prayer.” E.M. Bounds 

“There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.” – Chuck Smith

“If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.” - Wayne A. Grudem

“The greatest benefactor this age could have is the man who will bring the teachers and the church back to prayer.” – E.M. Bounds 

"A full measure of the Word and prayer each day gives a healthy and powerful life" -  Andrew Murray 

“The spirit of prayer should rule our spirits and our conduct.” – E.M. Bounds

“Now PRAYER is a duty founded on natural religion; the very heathens never neglected it, though many Christian heathens amongst us do:” – George Whitefield

“I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God’s creational intentions.” – John Wesley 

“Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy 

Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.” --Wesley Duewel 

"Wise is he in the day of trouble who knows his true source of strength and who fails not to pray." -- E. M. Bounds 

“Prayer is as vast and mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it. All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer!” – Etienne Piek

“And truly, my own experience tells me, that there is nothing that prevails more with God than persistence.” – John Bunyan 

“Prayer opens the heart of God, and is a means by which the empty soul is filled.” –               John Bunyan 

“Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart and soul to God, through Christ, with the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to the Word, for the good of the church, with submission, in faith, to the will of God.” – John Bunyan 

“Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God’s will.” -                      P. T. Forsyth  

 “God never give us discernment to criticize but to intercede.” - Oswald Chambers   

"Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer." E. M. Bounds 

"God does nothing except in response to believing prayer." John Wesley

"Prayer is where the action is." John Wesley

"The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history." Andrew Murray

"Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian." Andrew Murray

"We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth." Andrew Murray

"Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!" Andrew Murray

"...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length." C. H. Spurgeon

"If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ." C. H. Spurgeon

"Prayer can never be in excess." C. H. Spurgeon

" The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong." E. M. Bounds

"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet." E. M. Bounds

"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still."                             E.M. Bounds

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work." Oswald Chambers.

"I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working." James Hudson Taylor

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them. ~ Richard Baxter

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. ~ Spurgeon

God warms his hands at man’s heart when he prays. ~ John Masefield

If your day is hemmed in with prayer, it is less likely to come unraveled. When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message… Oswald Chambers

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together.  Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other’s hearts in prayer. ~ Charles Finney

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty “ougthness” of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God… ~ R.A.Torrey

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer. ~ David Bryant

In worship, God imparts himself to us. ~ C.S.Lewis

God shapes the world by prayer.  The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil. E.M.Bounds

It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone. ~ Hudson Taylor

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. ~ D.A.T. Pierson

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

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray, (not) those who talk about prayer…but I mean those who take time and pray. S.D.Gordon

All vital praying makes a drain on a man’s vitality.  True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice. ~ J.H. Jowett

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

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. ~ Billy Graham

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God. ~ Oswald Chambers

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God’s voice is its most essential part.  Listening to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine. ~ Andrew Murray

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation and for me the most important part is listening to God’s replies. ~ Frank C. Laubach

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. ~ J. Sidlow Baxter

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. Oswald Chambers

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

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

Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural. ~ Oswald Chambers

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

I did not see that it is the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men… ~ C.S. Lewis

There must be the inward worship within the shrine if there is to be outward service. MacLaren

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

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

Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine. Andrew Murray

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer. ~ Edwin Orr

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

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

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

Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission.  It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced. ~ David Bryant

God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope, and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. ~ Richard Cecil

I have lived to thank God that not all my prayers have been answered. ~ Jean Ingelow

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. Edwin Keith

To pray well is the better half of study. ~ Martin Luther

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

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.                              Robert McCheyne

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

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

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

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

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn’t every going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment. ~ Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. ~ Charles Stanley

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

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important. ~ Charles Stanley

The amount of time we spend with Jesus – meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face – establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom. ~ Charles Stanley

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

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits. ~ Charles Stanley

A great part of my time is spent in getting my heart in tune for prayer.                                   Robert Murray McCheyne

Ah, prayer turns trembling saints into great victors! There is no such thing as
surrender, or even discouragement, to a man who dwells in the secret place of the
Most High and abides under the shadow of the Almighty. - Henry W. Frost

A prayerless soul is a Christless soul.
A graceless man will be a prayerless man. The Prayer Meeting and Its History, J. B. Johnston

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure. P.T. Forsyth

And him that prayed before but pray the more.  As appetite comes with eating, so
prayer with praying. Our hearts learn the language of the lips. P.T. Forsyth

A man's influence in the world can be gauged not by his eloquence, or his zeal, or his
orthodox, or his energy, but by his prayers. The Kneeling Christian

A man of prevailing prayer must be filled with the Spirit of God.   The Kneeling Christian

A child of God ought to expect answers to prayer.
A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.  Samuel Chadwick

Ah, my brethren, we little know how many of our prayers are an abomination to the
Lord.  C. H. Spurgeon

All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it. C. H. Spurgeon

All fruitfulness in service is the outcome of prayer -- of the worker's prayers, or of
those who are holding up holy hands on his behalf. All progress in prayer is an answer to prayer--our own or another's. P. T. Forsyth

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure. P.T. Forsyth

All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them [that is,
in heaven], and ye shall have them [on earth]  Mark 11: 24

All in God draws me; everything within and around drives me to the throne of grace.
 Adolph Saphir

All practical power over sin and over men depends on maintaining closet communion.
Those who abide in the secret place with God show themselves mighty to conquer
evil, and strong to work and to war for God.  They are seers who read His secrets; they
know His will; they are the meek whom He guides in judgment and teaches His way.
They are His prophets who speak for Him to others, and even forecast things to come.
They watch the signs of the times and discern His tokens and read His signals.
A. T. Pierson

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-depend upon the practice of
secret prayer.  The Kneeling Christian

All the evil influences which seek to prevent our approach to God do not deserve to be
compared with the attractive power of God.  Adolph Saphir

All true prayer is exercised in the sphere of the Holy Spirit, motivated and empowered
by Him.  Eph 6:18

All you need to do to learn to pray is to pray. Wesley Duewel

And all true prayer promotes its own progress and increases our power to pray. P. T. Forsyth
Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude
from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God’s personal plan for our
lives.. Ray Stedman

And many shall think they are praying to the Father in my name, whilst deceiving
themselves. The Kneeling Christian

An uneducated but disciplined believer may have a greater prayer life than a
theologian who thinks and talks a lot about prayer.
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions. Eph 6:18

And surely it should be enough to restrain all 'lightness' and constrain an unceasing
'earnestness' did we apprehend the ‘”greatness of the Being’” before whom we plead.
C. H. Spurgeon

Andrew Bonar defined fasting as abstaining from anything that hindered prayer.
Anything is a blessing which makes us pray. C. H. Spurgeon

Apostasy generally begins at the closet door. E M Bounds

As appetite comes with eating, so prayer with praying. Our hearts learn the language
of the lips.  P.T. Forsyth

As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us
until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until no
Prayer. O. Hallesby

As well could you expect a plant to grow without air and water as to expect your heart
to grow without prayer and faith.
As we lift up our soul in prayer to the living God, we gain the beauty of holiness as
surely as a flower becomes beautiful by living in the sunlight. The Kneeling Christian

As a painted man is no man, and as a painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no
prayer. Thomas Brooks

Ask of Me -- I will give, says an almighty, all-loving God, and we scarcely heed His
words! Ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers into His harvest. Mat 9:38

Asking with shameless persistence, the importunity that will not be denied, returns
with the answer in hand. Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee,  wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
Thomas Aquinas

Believing prayer from a wholly-cleansed heart never fails. The Kneeling Christian

Both Scripture and experience unite to indicate that there is cumulative power in
unified praying. But it is the Holy Spirit of God Who is prayer’s great Helper.
The Kneeling Christian

But if one neglects his closet, then all evil comes of it. C. H. Spurgeon

But the root of the difficulty of public prayer lies further back than in the matter of style.
It lies in the difficulty of private prayer, in its spiritual poverty, its inertia, its anemia.
P.T. Forsyth

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber.. Mt 6:6

By importunity something else is meant than passionate dictation and stormy
pertinacity--imposing our egoist will on God, and treating Him as a mysterious but
manageable power that we may coerce and exploit. P.T. Forsyth

Can we pray in earnest if we do not in the act commit ourselves to do our best to bring
about the answer? Can we escape some king of hypocrisy? This is especially so with
intercession. P.T. Forsyth

Charles Finney, after spending a day in the woods in prayer and fasting, preached that
night in a phenomenally irreligious congregation. The sermon was accompanied by
such divine power that the whole congregation, except one man, fell prostrate upon
the floor, and voiced their agony under conviction of sin, in such loud outcries that the
preacher was forced to stop.

Christians pray as they feel; and in prayer they feel themselves in the presence of God,
the Hearer of prayer, and the Searcher of hearts. J. B. Johnston

Christ went more readily ad crucem (to the cross), than we do to the throne of grace.
Thomas Watson

Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God’s presence.  It is vain to say, ‘I
have too much work to do to find time.’  You must find time or forfeit blessing.  God
knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.
A. T. Pierson

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven. Thomas Brooks

Cold prayers ask for a denial! C. H.  Spurgeon

Communion is deeper than theology. Samuel Chadwick

Criticism of prayer dissolves in the experience of it. When the soul is at close quarters
with God it becomes enlarged enough to hold together in harmony things that oppose,
and to have room for harmonious contraries.  P.T. Forsyth  

Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will
molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little
or both. And we sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his devices…I do not think
he minds our praying about things if we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes
steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer.
Mary Warburton Booth

Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men and women. Do not pray for tasks
equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. - Phillips Brooks

Do the angels veil their faces before You, and shall I be content to prattle through a
form with no soul and no heart?   C. H. Spurgeon

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all. John Calvin

Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed.
Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life.
Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul.
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring
blessings. D.A. Carson

Either we pray or we faint. Ray Stedman

Eloquence and ardour have not done so much for Christ's cause as the humble
virtues, the united activity, and the patient prayers of thousands of faithful people
whose names are quite unknown. P.T. Forsyth

Even pagan savages cry out to someone or something to aid them in times of danger
and disaster and distress. How much more should we that know the true God.
Every prayerless day is a statement by a helpless individual, “I do not need God
today.”  Ben Jennings

Every unanswered prayer is a clarion call to search the heart to see what is wrong
there; for the promise is unmistakable in its clearness: "If ye shall ask anything in My
name, that will I do"   John 14:14

Failing to pray reflects idolatry–a trust in substitutes for God. Ben Jennings

For more than half a century, I have never known one day when I had not more
business than I could get through. For 40 years, I have had annually about 30,000
letters, and most of these have passed through my own hands. I have nine assistants
always at work corresponding in German, French, English, Danish, Italian, Russian,
and other languages. Then, as pastor of a church with 1200 believers, great has been
my care. I have had charge of five orphanages; also at my publishing depot, the
printing and circulation of millions of tracts, books, and Bibles. But I have always made
it a rule never to begin work till I have had a good season with God. George Mueller

For more than Thirty-five years.  I have had much intercourse with dying saints and
sinners of various ages and conditions.  In all that time I have not heard one express
regret that he had spent too much time in prayer; I have heard many mourn that they
had so seldom visited a throne of grace. Samuel Prime

For the most part our repetitions are evidence not of the fervency, but of the
barrenness of our minds and the slightness of our frame.”  Isaac Watts

“Be not rash to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and thou
upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.  Eccles. 5:2.

Give me Scotland or I die. John Knox

God always does His new things in the same old way. Everything by Prayer,  Fred Hartley

God likes to see His people shut up to this, that there is no hope but in prayer. Herein
lies the Church’s power against the world. Andrew Bonar

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change. John Owen

God hates insincerity or lukewarmness in prayer. Rev 3:15-16

God delays in answering our prayers because men would pluck their mercies green;
God would have them ripe. God knew that Paul would be a better man with the “thorn” than without it. God desires to glorify His name by answering prayer. God does not bestow His gifts on the casual of hasty comers and goers.  Much with  God alone is the secret of knowing Him and of influence with Him. E. M. Bounds

God is greater than His promises, and often gives more than either we desire or
deserve -- but He does not always do so. The Kneeling Christian

God delights to answer prayer; and He has given us His word that He will answer.
God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless
promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto
intercession. A. T. Pierson

God’s child can conquer anything by prayer. Is it any wonder that Satan does his
utmost to snatch that weapon from the Christian or to hinder him in the use of it?
Andrew Murray

God’s greatest movements in this world have been conditioned on, continued and
fashioned by prayer. God has put Himself in these great movements just as men have
prayer. Persistent, prevailing, conspicuous and mastering prayer has always brought
God to present. How vast are the possibilities of prayer! How wide its reach! It lays its
hand on Almighty God and moves Him to do what He would not do if prayer was not
offered. Prayer is a wonderful power placed by Almighty God in the hands of His
saints, which may be used to accomplish great purposes and to achieve unusual
results. The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those
promises. E. M. Bounds

God wills that men should pray everywhere, but the place of His glory is in the
solitudes, where He hides us in the cleft of the rock, and talks with man face to face as
a man talks with his friend. Samuel Chadwick

God’s acquaintance is not made hurriedly. E. M. Bounds

Go into your chamber, shut the door, and cultivate the habit of praying audibly. Write
prayers and burn them. Formulate your soul. Pay no attention to literary form, only to
spiritual reality. Read a passage of Scripture and then sit down and turn it into prayer,
written or spoken. Learn to be particular, specific, and detailed in your prayer so long
as you are not trivial. General prayers, literary prayers, and stately phrases are, for
private prayer, traps and sops to the soul. To formulate your soul is one valuable
means to escape formalizing it. This is the best, the wholesome, kind of self-
examination. Speaking with God discovers us safely to ourselves We "find" ourselves,
come to ourselves, in the Spirit. P.T. Forsyth

Good praying is more easily caught than taught. D. A. Carson