The Weapon of Prayer

Having everything else and lacking prayer, they must fall. Having prayer and lacking all else, they can succeed.

Men of God are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

Things legitimate and right may become wrong when they take the place of prayer. Things right in themselves may become wrong things when they are allowed to fasten themselves inordinately upon our hearts.

In this relation, God makes prayer identical in force and power with Himself and says to those on earth who pray: "You are on the earth to carry on My cause. I am in heaven, the Lord of all, the Maker of all, the Holy On…

Hannah's petition for a son began a great prayer movement for God in Israel. Praying women, whose prayers like those of Hannah, can give to the cause of God men like Samuel, do more for the Church and the world than all…

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer.

Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits, and not by their money or social position.

God must help man by prayer. He who does not pray, therefore, robs himself of God's help and places God where He cannot help man.

If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs, and prevents Him from working. And if prayer moves God to work in this world's affairs, then prayerlessne…

Prayer affects three different spheres of existence — the divine, the angelic and the human. It puts God to work, it puts angels to work, and it puts man to work. It lays its hands upon God, angels and men.

Prayer puts God's work in His hands, and keeps it there. It looks to Him constantly and depends on Him implicitly to further His own cause. Prayer is but faith resting in, acting with, and leaning on and obeying God. Thi…

The dispensation of the Holy Spirit is a dispensation of prayer, in a preeminent sense.

While Jesus Christ practiced praying Himself, being personally under the law of prayer, and while His parables and miracles were but exponents of prayer, He laboured directly to teach His disciples the specific art of pr…

Praying men are a necessity in carrying out the divine plan for the salvation of men.

Praying saints are God's agents for carrying on His saving and providential work on earth. If His agents fail Him, neglecting to pray, then His work fails.

Your efforts have been unsuccessful, because you have sought without what you can only find within. Accustom yourself to seek God in your heart, and you will not fail to find Him.

Men of piety are always men of prayer. Men are never noted for the simplicity and strength of their faith who are not preeminently men of prayer. Piety flourishes nowhere so rapidly and so rankly as in the closet. The cl…

It is neither words, nor thoughts nor ideas, nor feelings, which shape praying, but character and conduct.

The preaching of the Word to a prayerless congregation falls at the very feet of the preacher.

God commands men to pray, and so not to pray is plain disobedience to an imperative command of Almighty God.

George Muller, that remarkable man of such simple yet strong faith in God, a man of prayer and Bible reading, founder and promoter of the noted orphanage in England, which cared for hundreds of orphan children, conducted…

It is better to let the work go by default than to let the praying go by neglect.

Whatever affects the intensity of our praying affects the value of our work.

Nothing is well done without prayer for the simple reason that it leaves God out of the account.

Men and women are needed whose prayers will give to the world the utmost power of God; who will make His promises to blossom with rich and full results. God is waiting to hear us and challenges us to bring Him to do this…