As I have read and studied the topic of prayer, I have come across so many wonderful insights into the topic by many men and women of God. These have helped me better understand prayer itself, the importance of praying, and how to pray. I hope you find them to be helpful for you as well. I am also including a link to a very valuable book on prayer that I read recently called, “Prayer” by Pastor Bruce Zachary. You can download the book for free, and I highly recommend it. I pray that you are encouraged and inspired by some of these thoughts and insights on prayer.
PRAYER & POWER
"If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power." - Billy Sunday
“Most of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.” - Donald Whitney
“Little prayer, little power. Much prayer, much power.” - Rick Warren
PRAYER & TIME
“I’m too busy not to pray.” - Martin Luther
“That four hours of work for which one hour of prayer prepares, is far better than five hours of work without prayer.” - George Mueller
“I feel it is far better to begin with God - to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.” - Robert Murray Mc Cheyne
“Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.” - E.M. Bounds
“Mastering the art of prayer, like any other art, will take time, and the amount of time we allocate to it will be the true measure of our conception of its importance. We contrive to find time for that which we deem most important.” - J. Oswald Sanders
PRAYER & METHODS
“The church’s organization, methods, marketing, and machinery are powerless to deliver apart from prayer.” - Bruce Zachary
“We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Gospel. What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Spirit can use - men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit 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 & FASTING
“Prayer links us to heaven and fasting separates us from earth.” - C.H. Spurgeon
"Fasting is typically associated with abstaining from food. Nevertheless, we can appropriate God’s power by drawing close to Him by abstaining from certain material pleasures. For example, you can say “no” to television so that you can say “yes” to God. By spending time praying and reading the Bible rather than watching television, we are in effect fasting." - Bruce Zachary
PRAYER & SATAN
“God’s child can conquer everything by prayer. Is it any wonder that Satan does his utmost to snatch that weapon from the Christian or to hinder his use of it.” - Andrew Murray
“Satan the hinderer may build a barrier about us, but He can never roof us in so that we cannot look up.” - J. Hudson Taylor
PRAYER & SUBMISSION
“Our motive in prayer should be for us to desire to do things God’s way, not to get God to do things our way.” - Bruce Zachary
