Quotes on Prayer
“The earnest, heartfelt, continued prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available, dynamic in it’s working.” James 5:16 AMP
“For over a year this faithful band called upon the Lord until God finally answered by fire. The revival came down without any previous announcement or plan, and without the pastor sending for an evangelist to help him.” EM Bounds; Revival at Franklin, Tennessee.
John Wesley – “It was Wesley’s habit to daily spend one hour in prayer in the morning and then again in the evening. John Wesley shook the world by his preaching because he first shook heaven and hell with his praying. His preaching had a sense of eternal urgency because he had touched eternity on his knees.”
Andrew Bonar – “There is too much time taken up with active work for the Kingdom. Surely if God’s servants are to speak and preach in the power of the Holy Spirit they must again give themselves continually to prayer.”
David Brainerd – “consistently and fervently interceded for the lost souls of the American Indians. Often he would travail with such earnestness that when he arose from his knees he was covered in sweat and could hardly walk straight. Entire camps of Indians were converted by the power of God as he proclaimed a message of repentance and grace.”
“Prayer must be aflame. It’s ardor must consume. Prayer without fervor is as a sun without light or heat, or as a flower without beauty or fragrance. A soul devoted to God is a fervent soul, and prayer is the creature of that flame. He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.” EM Bounds
“Fasting proves the presence, and fans the flame, of a hunger for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples. It is an intensifier of spiritual desire. It is a faithful enemy of fatal bondage to innocent things. It is the physical exclamation point at the end of the sentence: “This much, O God, I long for you and for the manifestation of your glory in the world!” John Piper
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