Power

Let the power of Christ rest on me – Thomas Chalmers

Let the power of Christ rest on me – Thomas Chalmers

My God, Thou knowest my infirmities; and Thou knowest my desire to overcome them. Send forth Thy Spirit to help me in this warfare. Give me wisdom, O God, and the meekness of wisdom. Let the power of Christ rest upon me.

– Thomas Chalmers –

Paul’s greatest weapon – EM Bounds

Paul’s greatest weapon – EM Bounds

Paul was a leader by appointment and by universal recognition and acceptance. He had many mighty forces in this ministry. His conversion, so conspicuous and radical was a great force, a perfect magazine of aggressive and defensive warfare. His call to the apostleship was clear, luminous and convincing. But these forces were not the divinest energies which brought forth the largest results to his ministry. Paul’s course was more distinctly shaped and his career rendered more powerfully successful by prayer than by any other force.

– EM Bounds –

Wrestling in Prevailing Prayer – Vance Havner

Wrestling in Prevailing Prayer – Vance Havner

It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.

– Vance Havner –

Doing great things for God – Hudson Taylor

Doing great things for God – Hudson Taylor

Many Christians estimate difficulty in the light of their own resources, and thus they attempt very little and they always fail. All giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence to be with them.

– Hudson Taylor –

Strong in the Lord – Henry Scougal

Strong in the Lord – Henry Scougal

Let us be strong in the Lord, and the power of His might, for He it is that shall tread down our enemies.

– Henry Scougal –
from The Life of God in the Soul of Man

Prayer yields more than work – Andrew Murray

Prayer yields more than work – Andrew Murray

Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work, as God’s messengers, be intercession; in it, we secure the presence and power of God to go with us.

– Andrew Murray –
from The Ministry of Intercession