Purpose in Prayer

Pray for all men. We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

Prayer opens an outlet for the promises, removes the hindrances in the way of their execution, puts them into working order, and secures their gracious ends.

He who is too busy to pray, will be too busy to live a holy life.

Prayer is not the fruit of natural talents; it is the product of faith, of holiness, of deeply spiritual character. Men learn to pray as they learn to love.

Always does not mean that we are to neglect the ordinary duties of life; what it means is that the soul which has come into communion with God will carry the spirit of prayer into every duty.

The strongest one in Christ's kingdom is he who is the best knocker. The secret of success in Christ's Kingdom is the ability to pray. The one who can wield the power of prayer is the strong one, the holy one in Christ's…

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.

David Livingstone lived in the realm of prayer and knew its gracious influence. It was his habit every birthday to write a prayer, and on the next to the last birthday of all, this was his prayer: ' O Divine one, I have…

Two things,'says his biographer, 'he seems never to have ceased from'the cultivation of personal holiness and the most anxious efforts to win souls.' The two are the inseparable attendants on the ministry of prayer.

Men who can set the Church ablaze for God, not in a noisy, showy way, but with an intense and quiet heat that melts and moves every thing for God.

It is the effectual, fervent prayer that influences God.

All the true revivals have been born in prayer.

Whitfield once thus prayed, ' O Lord, give me souls or take my soul.' After much closet pleading, 'he once went to the Devil's fair and took more than a thousand souls out of the paw of the lion in a single day.

Around us is a world lost in sin, above us is a God willing and able to save; it is ours to build the bridge that links heaven and earth, and prayer is the mighty instrument that does the work.

I do not mean that every prayer we offer is answered exactly as we desire it to be. Were this the case, it would mean that we would be dictating to God, and prayer would degenerate into a mere system of begging.

When we calmly reflect upon the fact that the progress of our Lord's Kingdom is dependent upon prayer, it is sad to think that we give so little time to the holy exercise. Everything depends upon prayer, and yet we negle…

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings Him into active aid.

For prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails. Prayer has won great victories, and res…

One of Satan's wiliest tricks is to destroy the best by the good.

Prayer is faith passing into act. A union of the will and intellect realising in an intellectual act.

Walking with God down the avenues of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.

God's conquering days are when the saints have given themselves to mightiest prayer.

The goal of prayer is the ear of God,'a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us.

The value of prayer does not lie in the number of prayers, or the length of prayers, but its value is found in the great truth that we are privileged by our relations to God to unburden our desires and make our requests…

To have God thus near is to enter the holy of holies'to breathe the fragrance of the heavenly air, to walk in Eden's delightful gardens. Nothing but prayer can bring God and man into this happy communion.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy. Paul calls it a striving, an agony.

Prayer is the keynote of the most sanctified life, of the holiest ministry. He does the most for God who is the highest skilled in prayer.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed,'said the godly Dr. A. J. Gordon, 'but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

The Gospel, in its success and power, depends on our ability to pray.

When we calmly reflect upon the fact that the progress of our Lord's Kingdom is dependent upon prayer, it is sad to think that we give so little time to the holy exercise.

We must remember that the goal of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained the prayer has utterly failed.

Few Christians have anything but a vague idea of the power of prayer; fewer still have any experience of that power.

God shapes the world by prayer.

Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.