Victory

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 

November 12, 2012

The whole purpose of the Redemption is to give back to man the original source of life, and in a regenerated man this means “Christ . . . formed in you.”  Am I willing that the old disposition should be crucified with Christ?  If I am, Jesus Christ will take possession of me and will baptize me into His life until I bear a strong family likeness to Him.  It is a lonely path, a path of death, but it means ultimately being “presenced with Divinity.”  The Christian life does not take its pattern from good men, but from God Himself, that is why it is an absolutely supernormal life all through.

 – Oswald Chambers –

November 11, 2012

We might as well pray for God to invade and conquer us, for until he does, we remain in peril from a thousand foes.  We bear within us the seeds of our own disintegration.  Our moral imprudence puts us always in danger of accidental or reckless self-destruction. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls.  Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life.  Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.  God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.  Then He invades our natures with that ancient and eternal life which is from the beginning.  So he conquers us and by that benign conquest saves us for himself.

 – AW Tozer –

November 6, 2012

God is waiting for you to stop so He can begin.

– Watchman Nee –

October 26, 2012

Many people see salvation only as deliverance from judgment; they have not seen that salvation is also deliverance from self.

– Watchman Nee –

October 13, 2012

Many people see salvation only as deliverance from judgment; they have not seen that salvation is also deliverance from self.

– Watchman Nee –

October 9, 2012

In God’s name, I beseech you, let prayer nourish your soul as your meals nourish your body. Let your fixed seasons of prayer keep you in God’s presence through the day, and may His presence frequently remembered through it be an ever fresh spring of prayer. Such a brief, loving recollection of God renews a man’s whole being, quiets his passions, supplies light and counsel in difficulty, gradually subdues the temper, and causes him to possess his soul in patience, or rather gives it up to the possession of God.

– Francois de Fenelon –

October 7, 2012

The prayers of holy men appease God’s wrath, drive away temptations, resist and overcome the Devil, procure the ministry and service of angels, rescind the decrees of God. Prayer cures sickness and obtains pardon; it arrests the sun in its course and stays the wheels of the chariot of the moon; it rules over all gods and opens and shuts the storehouses of rain; it unlocks the cabinet of the womb and quenches the violence of fire; it stops the mouths of lions and reconciles our suffering and weak faculties with the violence of torment and violence of persecution; it pleases God and supplies all our need.

– Jeremy Taylor –

October 6, 2012

My creed leads me to think that prayer is efficacious, and surely a day’s asking God to overrule all events for good is not lost.

– James Gilmour –