Christian Life

October 26, 2011

Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.

– Corrie ten Boom –

October 25, 2011

All Christians are not in proper relationship with their Lord. The present obvious dearth of revival is largely due to the fact that the majority of Christians are out of touch with the source of Divine power. Even at conventions, the first work needed is to get things put right in the lives of those attending. To give a sick stomach an overdose of cream is to risk indigestion. Even a sick stomach prefers the taste of cream to the flavor of the bitter medicine. Still the bitter medicine is necessary, and it does not prevent the enjoying and digesting of good food afterwards-rather it creates the actual appetite of good health, which is quite distinct from the false cravings of indigestion.”

– J.E. Orr –

October 24, 2011

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

– Thomas Chalmers –

October 23, 2011

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

– E. M. Bounds –

October 22, 2011

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue. God’s voice in response to mine is its most essential part.

– Andrew Murray –

October 21, 2011

The popular notion that the first obligation of the church is to spread the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth is false. Her first obligation is to be spiritually worthy to spread it. Our Lord said “Go ye,” but He also said, “Tarry ye,” and the tarrying had to come before the going. Had the disciples gone forth as missionaries before the day of Pentecost it would have been an overwhelming spiritual disaster, for they could have done no more than make converts after their likeness, and this would have altered for the worse the whole history of the Western world and had consequences throughout the
ages to come.

– AW Tozer –
from Of God and Men, 35-37.

October 19, 2011

As long as Christians people can trust religious organization, material wealth, popular preaching, shallow evangelistic crusades and promotion drives, there will never be revival. But when confidence in the flesh is smashed, and the church comes to the realization of her desperate wretchedness, blindness and nakedness before God, then and only then will God breathe in. Yes, there must be the point of desperation but there must also be the point of intercession. Oh, that God would bring us to this place of intercession! We cannot think or talk, let alone taste of revival, without intercessory prayer. Indeed, the reason for an unrevived church in the last analysis is the sin of prayerlessness.

– Stephen Olford –

October 18, 2011

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.

– William Cowper –