Prayer

November 19, 2013

The first thing in closet-prayer is: I must meet my Father. The light that shines in the closet must be: the light of the Father’s countenance. The fresh air from heaven with which Jesus would have it filled, the atmosphere in which I am to breathe and pray, is: God’s Father-love, God’s infinite Fatherliness. Thus each thought or petition we breathe out will be simple, hearty, childlike trust in the Father. This is how the Master teaches us to pray: He brings us into the Father’s living presence.

– Andrew Murray –

October 19, 2013

Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.

– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –

September 16, 2013

Beware of saying, “I haven’t time to read the Bible, or to pray”; say rather, “I haven’t disciplined myself to do these things.”

– Oswald Chambers –

September 14, 2013

The one concern of the Devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayer-less studies, prayer-less work, prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

– Samuel Chadwick –

September 10, 2013

It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –

September 5, 2013

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

– RA Torrey –

August 28, 2013

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

– Samuel Chadwick –

August 18, 2013

A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.

– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –

August 17, 2013

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

– Jonathan Edwards –