Prayer is the slender nerve that moveth the muscles of omnipotence.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Prayer Moves Omnipotence – Charles Spurgeon
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God Sets His People Praying – Matthew Henry
Whenever God is preparing to do something great in the earth, He first sets His people a-praying!
– Matthew Henry –
Prayer Has Obtained the Impossible – JC Ryle
Prayer has obtained things that seemed impossible and out of reach. It has won victories over fire, air, earth, and water. Prayer opened the Red Sea. Prayer brought water from the rock and bread from Heaven. Prayer made the sun stand still. Prayer brought fire from the sky on Elijah’s sacrifice. Prayer overthrew the army of Sennacherib. Prayer has healed the sick. Prayer has raised the dead. Prayer has procured the conversion of countless souls.
– JC Ryle –
One Hour With God – David Brainerd
Oh! One hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
– David Brainerd –
The Power of Prayer – John Bunyan
Prayer is as the pitcher that fetcheth water from the brook, therewith to water the herbs: break the pitcher and it will fetch no water, and for want of water the garden withers.
– John Bunyan –
1628-1688
Prayer and Sin Can’t Coexist – JC Ryle
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin or sin will choke prayer.
– JC Ryle –
1816-1900
Thanksgiving for Mercy – John Bunyan
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
– John Bunyan –
The Love of God – John Preston
The love of God is peculiarly the work of the Holy Ghost … Therefore the way to get it is earnestly to pray. … We are no more able to love the Lord than cold water is able to heat itself … so the Holy Ghost must breed that fire of love in us, it must be kindled from heaven, or else we shall never have it.
– John Preston –
1587-1628
The Necessity of Prayer – EM Bounds
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
– EM Bounds –
