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 –
Power
January 24, 2013
We refuse to so strive and should not be surprised at the lack of God’s mighty stirrings. Is it not amazing that we have no problem with people wearing themselves out in sports for pleasure, work for money, politics for power, and programs for charity, but think it fanatical to so pray for souls? We would die for national freedom, but never for progress in the Kingdom of God. Is it any wonder we see so little of God’s great working? Father Nash* would pray until he had to ‘go to bed absolutely sick, for weakness and faintness, under the pressure.’ The world would have no problem with such dedication except that it was due to prayer for souls. Why should it be such a strange thing to the Church?
– J. Paul Reno –
*Father Nash was the man who prayed “under the stage” during Charles Finney’s revivals.
January 21, 2013
Victory is not won in the pulpit by firing intellectual bullets or wisecracks, but in the prayer closet; it is won or lost before the preacher’s foot enters the pulpit.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
January 20, 2013
Cheerfulness is the support of our strength; in the joy of the Lord are we strong.
– Charles Spurgeon –
December 25, 2012
Forgiveness is the key which unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. The forgiveness of Jesus not only takes away our sins, it makes them as if they had never been.
– Corrie ten Boom –
December 14, 2012
When we deliberately choose to obey God, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with all His almighty power.
– Oswald Chambers –
November 30, 2012
The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
– William Booth –
November 24, 2012
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things. It is the simplest and the most sublime, the weakest and the most powerful. Its results lie outside the range of human possibilities; they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.
– EM Bounds –
from Purpose in Prayer
November 20, 2012
The potency of prayer has subdued the strength of fire; it has bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine that is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.
– St. Chrysostom –
from EM Bounds’ book Purpose in Prayer