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As a body without a soul, much wood without fire, a bullet in a gun without powder, so are words in prayer without spirit.
John Trapp
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Prayer is always essential, but thought is essential, too, because prayer can be just an escape mechanism, almost at times a cry in the dark by people who are desperate and defeated. Prayer must be intelligent, and it is only to those who realize that their bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost that the answer will be given and the power will come.Spiritual Depression (173)
Indeed there is no little sin because there is no little God to sin against.A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, 5:500
I believe that prayer is the measure of the man, spiritually, in a way that nothing else is.
Prayer is the answer to the disease of self-confidence.
God ordains our prayers as means of receiving what he plans to give, all to enrich our relationship to him. As the perfect Father of his children, he reserves the right to answer the requests we should have made rather than those we actually made when we have asked for the wrong thing; but he will take action one way or another in every situation of need that we bring before him. Systematic Theology A Lecture
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. N/A
If you could be brought once to love secret prayer, and to converse feelingly with God in his word, your heaven will begin on earth; you will enjoy more pleasure than in all manner of riches.
Prayer must be fired with zeal and fervency.
What is prayer? It is an offering up of our desires to God for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ.Ten Commandments, 239
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
I am profoundly grateful to God that He did not grant me certain things for which I asked, and that He shut certain doors in my face.
Do you pray? One of the things that happens in your prayer life is if you think that you gotta earn the favor of God you'll never be a prayer. If you understand the favour of God was granted you in Jesus Christ you'll have a tendency to run to Christ and not from him.Rezweek 2010 Night 1
Let prayer be the key to open the morning and the bar to shut the evening.
One fervent prayer in secret will speak more for our sincerity than many in public.
Reading maketh a full man, prayer a holy man, temptation an experienced man.A Puritan Golden Treasury
A man may as truly say, the sea burns, or fire cools, as that certainty of salvation breeds security and looseness.Commentary on the Old and New Treatments, 5
If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.Disciplines of a Godly man
Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
Why has God appointed that we should pray? The vast
majority of people would reply, In order that we may obtain from
God the things which we need. While this is one of the purposes of prayer it is by no means the chief one. Moreover, it considers prayer only from the human side, and prayer sadly needs to be viewed from the Divine side.https://www.monergism.com/sovereignty-god-unabridged
In the great majority of the books written and in the
sermons preached upon prayer the human element fills the scene
almost entirely: it is the conditions which we must meet, the
promises we must "claim," the things we must do in order to get our requests granted; and God's claims, God's rights, God's glory are disregarded.https://www.monergism.com/sovereignty-god-unabridged
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul-and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life!
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