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The prayer life must be fought for. Everything will work against it. The world with its pressures and speed will give us no time, the flesh with its appetites and weaknesses will rob us of concentration, Satan will concentrate every inch of his subtle powers to contend every closet.
R.M.Mcheyne
"If you wish to be powerful for God double up on your devotions."
"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."
Ref - Your Daily Walk - P.112
"We can not expect to live defectively and pray effectively."
Peter Jackson
'When we come to God in prayer, we never have to ask: "Know what I mean?"'
Anon
"God hears the heart without words, but he never hears words without the heart."
CleanLaugh.
Three preachers sat discussing the best positions for prayer, while a telephone repairman worked nearby.
"Kneeling is definitely best," claimed one.
"No," another contended. "I get the best results standing with my hands outstretched to Heaven."
"You're both wrong," the third insisted. "The most effective prayer position is lying prostate, face down on the floor."
The repairman could contain himself no longer. "Hey, fellas," he interrupted, "the best prayin' I ever did was hangin' upside down from a telephone pole."
Diary note of R.M.Mcheyne Dec 11 1832
"Mind quite unfitted for devotion. Prayerless Prayer."
C.H.Spurgeon
"We must remember that the goal of prayer is the ear of God, unless that is gained the prayer has utterly failed."
"It is one thing to go to church; it is quite another thing to go to God."
C.G.Finny
Before he was converted attended a weekly prayer meeting. After a number of weeks the members of the church asked him if he needed praying for. He replied
"Yes, I do need praying for, but not by you, as your prayers never get answered."
John Bunyan :- Illustration to show the need for understanding of what we pray for.
"Suppose there should come two men begging to your door; the one is a poor, lame, wounded, and almost starved creature, the other is a healthy strong person; these two use the same words in their begging; the one says he is almost starved, so does the other: but the man that is indeed the poor, lame, or maimed person, he speaks with more sense, feeling, and understanding of the misery that is mentioned in their begging, than the other can do.
Surely that is the man that God will look at, 'even to him that is poor, and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word'(Is. 66:2)"
Wesley Duewel
"There is only one way to learn to pray. It is not by reading books on prayer, not by singing about prayer, not by hearing sermons on prayer, but by praying, more and more and more.........You learn to pray by praying."
CH Spurgeon
"Prayer is the slender nerve which moves the muscle of Omnipotence."
RM McCheyne
"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me!"
Matthew Henry
"When God intends any great mercy for His people, He first sets them praying."
Clean Laugh
They have a Dial-a-Prayer for atheists now. You can call up and it rings and rings but nobody answers.
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