The Reality of Prayer

Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer;

Christ made disciples and kept them disciples by praying.

Then it was He urged upon His disciples the injunction, ' Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest,' dearly teaching them that it belonged to God to call into the ministry men w…

We often end praying just where we ought to begin. We quit praying when God waits and is waiting for us to really pray.

Prayer is an ardent and believing cry to God for some specific thing. God's rule is to answer by giving the specific thing asked for.

Is there any work, higher work for the disciple to do than His Lord did? Is there any loftier employment, more honourable, more divine, than to pray for men? To take their woes, their sins, and their perils before God; t…

Not to pray is not simply a privation, an omission, but a positive violation of law, of spiritual life, a crime, bringing disorder and ruin. Prayer is law world-wide and eternity-reaching.

To Christ Jesus prayer occupied no secondary place, but was exacting and paramount, a necessity, a life, the satisfying of a restless yearning and a preparation for heavy responsibilities.

His victories were gained in the struggles and communion of His all night praying.

Prayer is the condition by which all foes are to be overcome and all the inheritance is to be possessed.

Prayer is the channel through which all good flows from God to man, and all good from men to men.

There is an important principle of prayer found in some of the miracles of Christ. It is the progressive nature of the answer to prayer. Not at once does God always give the full answer to prayer, but rather progressivel…

Prayer was the secret of His power, the law of His life, the inspiration of His toil and the source of His wealth, His joy, His communion and His strength.

The range and potencies of prayer, so clearly shown by Jesus in life and teaching, but reveal the great purposes of God. They not only reveal the Son in the reality and fullness of His humanity, but also reveal the Fathe…

God is vitally concerned that men should pray. Men are bettered by prayer, and the world is bettered by praying. God does His best work for the world through prayer. God's greatest glory and man's highest good are secure…

Almighty God seems to fear we will hesitate to ask largely, apprehensive that we will strain His ability.

We can pray against God's will, as Moses did, to enter the Promised Land; as Paul did about the thorn in the flesh; as David did for his doomed child; as Hezekiah did to live. We must pray against God's will three times…

Prayer gives us eyes to see God. Prayer is seeing God.

Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.

Prayer is the outstretched arms of the child for the Father's help.

He is the wisest man who prays the most and the best.

The law of prayer, the right to pray, rests on sonship.