Archive for the 'Prayer' Category

25th September, 2006

Thought Provokers on Prayer (IV)

“How can a church make a positive impact on it’s community when it can’t even get its own members to pray together?”
Jim Cymbala

“If you study the history of revivals, you will discover this undeniable fact: In the recorded history of the church there has never been a mighty outpouring of the Spirit in Revival which did not begin in the persistent, prevailing prayer of a desperate people. Revival has never come because men “planned” it and put it on the calendar.”
Ronald Dunn

“If we are neglecting prayer, we are neglecting revival”
David Smithers

“Our Lord Jesus Christ chose his twelve apostles only after he had spent a night in praying.”
E.M. Bounds

“Isn’t spiritual apathy and powerlessness in the church today a crisis which calls for urgent prayer?”
Errol Hulse

4th August, 2006

The Devil hates prayer (II)

“Satan fears prayer more than almost anything else we could ever do.”
Wesley Duewel

“With every possible guile that he knows, the devil would snatch us from the closet of prayer. For in prayer man is linked with God, and in that union Satan is baffled and beaten.”
Leonard Ravenhill

“[The devil] makes us believe that we can do more by our own efforts than by our prayers.”
Anonymous

“[Satan] will try to get you so busy in daily activities or even Christian activities that you have no time to pray down the power to make your activity successful.”
Wesley Duewel

“Do we realise that there is nothing the devil dreads so much as prayer? His great concern is to keep us from praying. He loves to see us up to our eyes in work – provided we do not pray. He does not fear because we are eager and earnest Bible students – provided we are little in prayer.”
Anonymous

14th July, 2006

Thought Provokers on Prayer (III)

“Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.”
John Bunyan

“Prayer is largely the means of our binding the strong man and spoiling his house.”
George Strachan

“History shows how mankind has progressed from manpower to horsepower, and then to dynamite and TNT, and now to atomic power. But greater than atomic power is prayer power.”
Warren Wiersbe

“Next to the wonder of seeing my Saviour will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.”
D.L. Moody

“If you mean to pray effectually, you must pray a great deal.”
Charles Finney

“Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all – pray.”
R.A. Torrey