- Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.
- God’s acquaintance is not made hurriedly.
- The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
- God does not bestow His gifts on the casual of hasty comers and goers. Much with God alone is the secret of knowing Him and of influence with Him.
- The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.
- Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance.
- Life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
- Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
- Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
- Nothing is clearer than that prayer has its only worth and significance in the great fact that God hears and answers prayer.
- Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
- A consecrated life is both a prayer life and a thanksgiving life.
- Wherever there is true prayer, there thanksgiving and gratitude stand hard by ready to respond to the answer when it comes.
- The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.
- Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.
- I would rather have prayer without words then words without prayer.
- The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
- The spirit of prayer should rule our spirits and our conduct.
- No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.
- Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
- Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
- Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
- In every truly successful ministry prayer is an evident and controlling force.
- Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
- The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men…Men of prayer.
- A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
- God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil…
- God’s cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
- He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.
- Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
- Holy living is essential preparation for prayer.
- Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
- It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
- It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
- Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been held.
- Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
- Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him the mind of Christ, the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.
- Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
- Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
- The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.
– E.M. BoundsFor more wisdom from E.M.Bounds, check out The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer: Experience the Wonders of God through Prayer.
pray for me that God will send revival to my heart and soul.I need a move of God in my life…Ask God to help me tarry in his presence.I owe God everything for what hes done for me.
may God richly bless you all!!
Thank you for your many words of encouragement and wisdom on prayer..
You’re welcome. Thanks for the encouragement back.
greetings in CHRIST’s name,and long live President GHW Bush.please pray that,i sleep well,and also that,i will have peaceful dreams.please pray that,i memorize the Holy-Bible;and also,that i have good concentration at work.please sene any free print literature (especially on prayer) to me,//mr emeka adigwe,1 iris court,16 ryder avenue,London,E10 5GJ,United Kingdom.//,thanks.have a Blest day.yours faithfully~
Dear Emeka,
I pray that you sense the incredible peace of God to help you sleep.
Blessings,
Kevin
Prayer is the only key to life and trusting God unlocks the future…