Intercessory Prayer Quotes

• Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

  Charles Bent

  Prayer, Might, Knees

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• We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, People, Christian Inspirational

  Corrie Ten Boom, Pam Rosewell Moore (2004). “Life Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom”

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• Intercession is the truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer: no continent, no nation, no city, no organization, no office. No power on earth can keep intercession out.

  Richard Halverson

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  "No Greater Power: Perspective for Days of Pressure".

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• The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Real, Soul

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.354, Discovery House

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• God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Opportunity, People

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.73, Discovery House

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• 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.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

  John Henry Jowett

  Spiritual, Prayer, Fighting

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• Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

  William Cowper

  Prayer, Devil, Knees

  William Cowper, “Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer”

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• Prayer can do anything that God can do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, One Line

  R.A. Torrey (2015). “The Power of Prayer”, p.4, Ravenio Books

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• Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Hands, Use

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.152, Discovery House

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• None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Powerful, Believe

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.155

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• Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Community, Baths

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Peter Frick (2010). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer”, p.17, Liturgical Press

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• Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Son

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Men of the Old Testament”

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• The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Done

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

  Paul the Apostle

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Kings

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• Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Asking, Kingdoms

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “Praying Successfully”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• 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.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Morning, Prayer, Effort

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].

  Thomas Brooks

  Jesus, Prayer, Hearing

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• The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Prayer, Real

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• Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Men, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Christian Character through Divine Guidance, Suffering, Peril, Prayer, Loneliness, and Patience”, p.158, Discovery House

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• It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?

  John Henry Jowett

  Spiritual, Prayer, Fighting

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• In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

  Douglas V. Steere

  Prayer, Ends

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• Someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President. And I had to say, "Yes, I am. I've felt it. I believe in intercessory prayer." But I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question that - or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him.

  Ronald Reagan

  Prayer, Believe, People

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb.

  Basilea Schlink

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Influence And Power, Pakistan, Earth

  Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947.

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