Intercession Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  Royal Gould Wilder, Delavan Leonard Pierson, Arthur Tappan Pierson, James Manning Sherwood (1898). “The Missionary Review of the World”

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• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

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• Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.

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• 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!

  Andrew Murray

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Doe, Fit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery House

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• He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

  John Bunyan

  Running, Morning

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• Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

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• Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Track, Revival

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The collected works of Watchman Nee”

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• God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.

  S. D Gordon

  Winning, Men, Agency

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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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• Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Mean, Mind

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.190, Discovery House

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• The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Men, Praying

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• Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Prayer, Reading, Law

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

  John Newton

  Jesus, Blood, Righteousness

  John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.572

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• All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

  John Henry Jowett

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Men

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• Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the original purpose of the monthly concert of prayer for missions be given a larger place; let missionary prayer cycles be used by families and by individual Christians.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Missionary

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

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• Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Arrows, Grace

  Thomas Watson (2013). “A Body of Divinity”, p.238, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Lying, Believe

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• God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Order, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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• Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Heart, Bears, Praying

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• We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.

  R. C. Sproul

  Persevere, Priests

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• Intercession remains the unrivaled master in fulfilling the Great Commission.

  David Shibley

  Masters, Fulfilling, Remains

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• Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Believe, Home

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.528, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Essentials, Christianity

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