Trust

“God gives me whatever I want, because I want whatever He gives.”

As quoted by Laura Booz in Expect Something Beautiful, p.65.

Be Quick to Pray

The greatest tragedy in life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.*

Be quick to pray.

*F.B. Meyer as quoted by Peter Grant, Moody Alumni & Friends, Fall 2019, p.17.

Quiet Solitude

Jesus went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone (Matthew 14:23).

“Oh, the thought of having God all alone to myself, and knowing that God has me all alone to Himself!”*

*Andrew Murray as quoted in Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman, p. 403.

 

Pray with Authenticity and Attentiveness

Prayer is a conversation with God in which authenticity of spirit and attentiveness of mind are essential.*

*Eugene Peterson, Praying with Jesus, February 25.

Jesus on Perserving in Prayer

“Jesus told his disciples . . . that they should always pray and never give up.

God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night.”
(Luke 18:1-7 NLT).

Charles Spurgeon on Prayer

“The enemies of the Protestant cause dreaded the prayers of Knox more than they feared the armies of ten thousand men.”

Charles H. Spurgeon, Spurgeon’s Lectures to his Students, p. 44.

The Secret of Luther’s Power

He prayed, “with so much reverence, as if he were speaking to God, yet with so much confidence as if he were speaking to his friend.”*

*David Otis Fuller, D.D., Spurgeon’s Lectures to His Students, p. 43.

Pray in Suffering

The great things of life are bestowed only upon those who pray. But we learn to pray best in suffering. ~ Peter Wust

God Listens

God listens to the crying heart in the secret place.*

*Samuel Chadwick, God Listens. 

Dependent Prayer – 2

Dependent prayer “is necessary because we are engaged in mission against immeasurably superior forces.”*

We wrestle “against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12).

* Richard F. Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life, p. 146.