Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray, for prayer requires strength.
– Hudson Taylor –
Prayer
Prayer Prepares the Heart – Andrew Murray
Prayer prepares my heart for receiving the Word of God from God Himself.
– Andrew Murray –
Good Praying – Austen Phelps
“Good prayers,” says an old English divine, “never come weeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask or what I should ask.”
– Austen Phelps –
from The Still Hour: Communion with God in Prayer, 1859
Get Your Heart in Tune for Prayer – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
A great part of my time is spent in getting my heart in tune for prayer. It is the link that connects earth with heaven.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Know the Father in Prayer – Andrew Murray
He that has once learned to know the Father in prayer learns to pray confidently for others too. The Father gives the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him, especially when we ask for the sake of others.
– Andrew Murray –
from Teach Me to Pray
Begin Your Day With This … – Hudson Taylor
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God in prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
– Hudson Taylor –
1832-1905
Prayer – David Jeremiah
Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.
– David Jeremiah –
Decay Begins With a Lack of Prayer – John Berridge
All decays begin in the [prayer] closet; no heart thrives without much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
– John Berridge –
Prayer the Business of Life
Prayer was pre-eminently the business of his life.
– Biographer speaking of Edwin Payson –