I have so much business to do today that I shall not be able to get through it with less than three hours [of] prayer.
– Martin Luther –
Christian Life
August 11, 2015
We read in the biographies of our forefathers, who were most successful in winning souls, that they prayed for hours in private. The question therefore arises, can we get the same results without following their example?
– Oswald J. Smith –
August 10, 2015
Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!
– John Wesley –
August 9, 2015
The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray. My answer is pray and never faint, and then you shall never fail.
– John Laidlaw –
August 8, 2015
When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.
– Matthew Henry –
August 7, 2015
The story of the very first outbreak of the Revival traces it to the trembling utterance of a poor Welsh girl, who, at a meeting in a Cardigan village, was the first to rise and testify. “If no one else will, then I must say that I love the Lord Jesus Christ with all my heart.
– Evan Roberts –
from The Story of the Welsh Revival by Eyewitnesses
August 6, 2015
So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
– Ezekiel 22:30 NKJV –
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
– Ezekiel 22:30 KJV –
And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
– Ezekiel 22:30 ESV –
August 5, 2015
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
– Guy H. King –
August 4, 2015
I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.
– Charles Spurgeon –