An intercessor is one who reminds the Lord of promises and apointments not yet not yet fulfilled. - James W. Goll
The passion of prayer is the cause of revival
"If God promised you something, the season for that is GUARANTEED." ~ Pastor Sam Carr
The moment we believe in what Jesus His Son did for us by dying on
that Cross to pay for all our failings, our rebellion … our sin … God is
closer to us than the deepest secret of our heart.
Because God’s love for us in Jesus Christ is the bridge that spans the universe! - Berni Dymet
Unanswered Prayer – Unexpected Answers
Some said a few days ago to me" I want to be like you" i smiled and said sweetly " No you dont, dont believe all you see , the anointing let us all look smarter than what we are" Suzette Hattingh
Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God. --Andrew Murray
Anyone who thinks they are too small to make a difference has never been in bed with a mosquito. Ron Corzine
We never get so near God as when we plead for others. - F B Meyer
"A side of prayer is also to enjoy Jesus!" - Agner Ebild
"Only those who see the invisible can attempt the impossible."
Dick Eastman
A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children. - Rick Warren.
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." — Corrie ten Boom
Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer. --Ed Cole
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work. --Oswald Chambers
There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. --John G. Lake
You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day. --Fredrik Wisloff
An intercessor
is a person who by his praying changes things in the spiritual realm and the changes are manifested in the visible realm. Unknown
Give me men and woman with a heart for prayer and I show you how we change a city. Prayer move mountains but combined prayer move nations! --- Suzette Hattingh
I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.—John Wesley
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go. -- Abraham Lincoln
♪♫O theres power in prayer.♪power to spare.♫
All, that you'll ever need,♪♫ is waiting right there.♪♫
♪♫It takes a few words, a little childs faith.♪
♪Then its good bye dispare.♪♫
♫O, theres power,so much power,♪ theres power in prayer.♪♫
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
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying. --Catherine Marshall
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?-- Corrie Ten Boom
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan --John Bunyan
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer. --François Fénelon
The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing. --Jeanne Guyon
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. --William Law
The Third Petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.--Aldous Huxley
Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?....Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray. --Oswald Chambers
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing. --E. M. Bounds
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ~Søren Kierkegaard
There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy. --Corrie Ten Boom
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't pray, they don't. --William Temple
Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian. --Andrew Murray
Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls. --John G. Lake
Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not. --John A. Hardon
Pray, and let God worry. -- Martin Luther
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your task. --Phillips Brooks
This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.-- Julian of Norwich
If you can't pray a door open, don't try it open.-- Lyell Rader
God's answers are wiser than our prayers. –Unknown
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. --Teresa of Avila
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. --Anselm of Canterbury
We waste most of our time trying to get God to do something He has already done—or praying for God to do something He told us to do. --Jacquelyn K. Heasley
If God will do whatever He wishes, regardless of whether we pray or not, then we do not need to pray at all, and the Lord's instructions on praying for the Kingdom and the Will are superfluous. But the truth is that God waits for a Remnant to rise up and to pray in agreement with His Purpose before He does anything - He will do nothing apart from the Church. Apart from HIM, we CAN do nothing; apart from US, He WILL do nothing –Chip Brogden
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer. --Oswald Chambers
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men…Men of prayer." --E. M. Bounds
Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat. --Leonard Ravenhill
Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life. --Leonard Ravenhill
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
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 R. Mott
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours. --William Wilberforce
We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. --Oswald Chambers
Why is it so important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you "my beloved daughter," "my beloved son," "my beloved child." To pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being. --Henri Nouwen
So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts. --A.W. Tozer
The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him. --John Climacus
Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell God your troubles, that God may comfort you; tell God your joys, that God may sober them; tell God your longings, that God may purify them; tell God your dislikes, that God may help you conquer them; talk to God of your temptations, that God may shield you from them: show God the wounds of your heart, that God may heal them. If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. Talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration say just what you think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God. --Francois Fenelon
Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means for getting something for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. --Oswald Chambers
If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray. - Frederick Franson
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers. --J. Sidlow Baxter
Prayer starts with a word.---Agner Ebild
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. --Leonard Ravenhill
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. -- Oswald Chambers
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him. --William Law
Rich is the person who has a praying friend. --Janice Hughes
A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer. –John Climacus
It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity. --John of Kronstadt
Whether we think of or speak to God; whether we act or suffer for him; all is prayer when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. --John Wesley
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be. --François Fénelon
The true spirit of prayer is no other than God's own Spirit dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings and pantings. It naturally leads to God, to converse with him by prayer. --Jonathan Edwards
God does not stand afar off as I struggle to speak. He cares enough to listen with more than casual attention. He translates my scrubby words and hears what is truly inside. He hears my sighs and uncertain gropings as fine prose. --Timothy Jones
Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement. --Jacques Ellul
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -- John Bunyan
”Han svarede: »Min nåde er dig nok, for min magt udøves i magtesløshed.« Jeg vil altså helst
være stolt af min magtesløshed, for at Kristi magt kan være over mig.” 2 Kor 12,9
When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered. --John Climacus
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude—an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. --Arthur W. Pink
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. --Brother Lawrence
Thomas a Kempis made this the first part of his daily worship, using the prayer of submission: "As thou wilt; what thou wilt; when thou wilt." from —Disciplines of a Godly Man
"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach; A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray." -H. MacGregor
"Satan seeks to displace us in order to regain the authority Jesus stripped from him" --- John Bevere from "Braking Intimidation" 1995
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. --Leonard Ravenhill
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. -- Oswald Chambers
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him. --William Law
Rich is the person who has a praying friend. --Janice Hughes
A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer. –John Climacus
It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity. --John of Kronstadt
"The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer."
F.B. Meyer
Whether we think of or speak to God; whether we act or suffer for him; all is prayer when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. --John Wesley
"Prayer requires more of the heart than the tongue."
Adam Clarke
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be. --François Fénelon
The true spirit of prayer is no other than God's own Spirit dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings and pantings. It naturally leads to God, to converse with him by prayer. --Jonathan Edwards
God does not stand afar off as I struggle to speak. He cares enough to listen with more than casual attention. He translates my scrubby words and hears what is truly inside. He hears my sighs and uncertain gropings as fine prose. --Timothy Jones
Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement. --Jacques Ellul
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -- John Bunyan
When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered. --John Climacus
"It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts." — Corrie ten Boom
"Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here." — Corrie ten Boom (The Hiding Place)
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude—an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. --Arthur W. Pink
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. --Brother Lawrence
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work. --Oswald Chambers
"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach; A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray." -H. MacGregor
"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden." — Corrie ten Boom
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. ~Guy H. King
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. ~William McGill
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Samuel M. Shoemaker
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. ~Author Unknown
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. ~Oswald Chambers
When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. ~Author Unknown
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude. ~Walter A. Mueller
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. ~Matthew Henry
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. ~John Bunyan
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed;
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
~James Montgomery, What is Prayer?
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ~Adam Clarke
God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no. ~Author Unknown
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. ~Mother Teresa
There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence." ~O. Hallesby
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. ~E.M. Bounds
"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments"
Charles H. Spurgeon
"Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him." - Hudson Taylor
"God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it."
John Wesley
"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone."
Robert Foster
"Seven days without prayer makes one weak."
Allen Vartlett
"Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end."
Charles Finney
"Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure."
D. L. Moody
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
Benjamin Franklin
"What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. " — Corrie ten Boom
Praying in the Spirit reveals the mystery of God! -- Agner Ebild
Re the meaning of revival: “You cannot revive something that has never had life, so revival, by definition, is first of all an enlivening and quickening and awakening of lethargic, sleeping church members. Suddenly the power of the Spirit comes upon them … they are humbled, they are convicted of sin … then as a result of their quickening and enlivening, they begin to pray. New power comes into the preaching of the ministers, and the result of this is large numbers are converted. So the two main characteristics of revival are, first, this extraordinary enlivening of the members of the church, and, second, the conversion of masses of people who have been outside in indifference and in sin.” ---D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“From the Day of Pentecost, there has not been one great spiritual awakening in any land which has not begun in a union of prayer, though only among two or three; no such outward, upward movement has continued after such prayer meetings have declined.” --Dr. A. T. Pierson
"Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord." John Paton
"This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see." — Corrie ten Boom (The Hiding Place)
"You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God. This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame." General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest." — Corrie ten Boom
"Confident praying comes by knowing you are praying according to the will of God. If you will find out what God’s will is, and you will pray according to His will, He will answer you every time." - Nehemiah Christie
Prayer fills you with excitement, because you step into the divine mysteries. -- Agner Ebild
My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ." --Billy Graham
Many people think they have to have money, facilites or a ministery to do something for God. How about kneeling in your bedroom in prayer on the behalf of those in need, sorrow or broken hearted. I am amazed how much of our prayers and actions can turn just arround ourselves." lift up your eyes... the harvest is ripe" yes lift up your eyes away from yourslef... and see those arround you... they need you Suzette Hattingh 9th Nov 2010
Mary Slessor
Mary Slessor wrote to a friend who had long prayed for her: "I have always said that I have no idea how or why God has carried me over so many funny and hard places, and made these hordes of people submit to me, or why the Government should have given me the privilege of a Magistrate among them, except in answer to prayer made at home for me. It is all beyond my comprehension. The only way I can explain it is on the ground that I have been prayed for more than most. Pray on, dear one — the power lies that way."
On another occasion she wrote: "Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service — praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom."
As for her rewards, she had but one question: "What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?"
Your faith is only as good as the object in which you place your faith. - Gayle Claxton
"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life."
