Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do
not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as
He did me, to teach you to pray.”
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
Prayer
Praying Daily – Martin Luther
If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great
deal of the fire of faith.
– Martin Luther –
The Prayer Life of DL Moody – RA Torrey
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with DL Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.
– RA Torrey –
A Mighty Longing After God – AW Tozer
I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.
– AW Tozer –
The Difference Between Prayer Meetings – Norman Grubb
Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope, and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed.
– Norman Grubb –
No Substitute for Secret Communion with God – Gordon Cove
There is absolutely no substitute for this secret communion with God. The public Church services, or even the family altar, cannot take the place of the ‘closet’ prayer. We must deliberately seek to meet with God absolutely alone…
– Gordon Cove –
The Root of All Godliness – William Carey
Prayer —secret, fervent, believing prayer—lies at the root of all personal godliness.
– William Carey –
Prayer is Absolutely Vital – Charles Spurgeon
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.
– Charles Spurgeon –
You Are What You Are On Your Knees – Fred Mitchell
What a man is on his knees before God in secret, that will he be before men: that much and no more.
– Fred Mitchell –