Prayer is an exercise of the soul,
Extending, enlarging our sight
To see our own life becoming
A part of all love and all Light.

Helen Lowrie Marshall


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"Men ought always to pray and not to faint."
Luke 18:1

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

Walter A. Mueller



Prayer is not a lazy substitute for work. It is not a short cut to skill or knowledge. And sometimes God delays the answer to our prayer in final form until we have time to build up the strength, accumulate the knowledge, or fashion the character that would make it possible for Him to say "yes" to what we ask.

 

 
Prayer is just as essential for the child of God in the spiritual realm as breathing is for us in the natural. Without it God cannot move in our behalf; for prayer is our avenue of approach to Him through Christ.

Scripture has much to say about this important subject. "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." James 5:16
Jacob prays: The angel blesses him and Esau's revenge is changed to love.
Joseph prays: He is delivered from the prison in Egypt.
Moses prays: Amalek is discomfited and Israel triumphs.
Joshua prays: The day is lengthened and victory is gained.
David prays: God forgives him and he goes out to win others to the Lord.
Jehoshaphat prays: God turns away His anger and smiles.
Elijah prays: A little cloud appears, it begins to rain and the famine is broken.
Elisha prays: A widow's son is restored to life and food is provided.
Isaiah prays: The Assyrian army is put to flight.
Hezekiah prays: The sun dial is turned back and his life is prolonged.
Mordecai prays: Haman is hanged and Israel is free.
Nehemiah prays: The king's heart is softened in a moment.
Daniel prays: The lions lose their appetite.
The Disciples pray: The Holy Spirit is poured out.
The Church prays: Peter is delivered from prison by an angel.
Paul and Silas pray: The prison shakes, the doors are open, and the Philippian jailor is saved.
Prayer is Essential!

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

                  - Keith Miller

 

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind, and in heart, and in spirit.

 

 

Let prayer be the key of the day and the bolt of the night.

-Jean Paul Richter

 

Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.

-George David Stewart

 

Prayer is the most important thing in my life. If I should neglect prayer for a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

-Martin Luther

 

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our person - but they are helpless against our prayers.

-Sidlow Baxter

You can't possibly stumble if you're on your knees.

 

Let us bow our heads and pray as follows:
"Lord, help me to admit it when I am wrong, and make me easier to live with when I am right."

 

The prayers a man lives on his feet are just as important as those he says on his knees.

 

Prayer lubricates the machinery of life.

 

   
Prayer is the bringing of one's heart into the sunshine, so that like a plant, its inward life may thrive for an outward development. It is the plea of one's better self against one's weaker self. It is utter despondency so that it may obtain confidence. It is the expression and exercise of all that is good and true. It is a wrestle with evil in the presence of Supreme Goodness. It is the ascent of the soul above time into the freedom of eternity.

                --Christian World Pulpit

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