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Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.
Sep 29, 2025
We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.
Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.
This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.
The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.
Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.
We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.
Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.
For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.
Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.
God shapes the world by prayer.
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.
If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.
The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.
Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.