No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.
Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.
It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.
If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord’s example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility is enormous. Their strength is small. Let us see that we support them, and hold up their hands by our prayers.
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.
Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.
Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.
If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
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