This "nugget" will be a collection of meaningful thoughts about prayer. It is intended to be a companion "nugget" to "INSPIRING SCRIPTURES ABOUT PRAYER." It will be updated on a regular basis. Hopefully, these insightful thoughts
will encourage you in the effectiveness of faithful prayer to our Creator! I would encourage you to write some of the thoughts about prayer that are the most inspiring to you somewhere in the blank pages or available spaces in your Bible. They will then be there for you to see and encourage you about prayer from time to time.
1. "Seven days without prayer makes one weak!" (Anon.)
2. " A lot of kneeling keeps you in good standing with God." (Anon.)
3. " Keep your chin up and your knees down!" (Anon.)
4. " You ministers who leave home without praying is like you leaving the house with your pants off!" ( Attributed To Rod Meredith)
5. " Some people pray for a bushel, but carry a cup! " (Anon.)
6. " Satan hinders prayer, but prayer also hinders Satan!' (Anon.)
7. " Most of us would be in more trouble than we are if all our prayers had been answered!" (Anon.)
8. "If you are too busy to pray, you are too busy!" (Anon.)
9. "When your knees are knocking, it might help you to kneel on them!" (Anon.)
10. " The best cure for a short temper is lenghty prayer!" (Anon.)
11. "Bible Study is the spiritual food and water of a Chrisitian. Prayer is our breath. All three are necessary for spiritual survival". (P.Dunagan)
12. " Prayers can't be answered when they aren't prayed!" (Anon.)
13. "Work as if everything depended upon you and pray as if everything depended upon God." ( Attribtuted To Herbert Armstrong)
14. " Take the bow of faith and the arrow of prayer." (Macduff)
15. "God cares not for the length of our prayers, or the number of our prayers, or the beauty of our prayers , or the place of our prayers. It is the FAITH in them that tells." (Talmage)
16. " Prayer is the chalice in which we fetch the water from the rock. It is the ladder on which we climb up to pick the grapes hanging over the wall of heaven. It is the fire that warms the frigid soul. It is the ship that carries away our wants , and comes back with a return cargo of Divine help. Archimedes said, if he would only find a fulcrum for his lever he could move the world. Ah! we have found it! Prayer is the lever. The Divine promise is the fulcrum. Pushing down on such a lever , we move not only earth, but also heaven." (Talmage)
COMMENT: Of course, it must always be according to God's Will (Ephesians 5:17). We cannot force God to do anything. It is only when God chooses to reward our faith that our prayers are answered!
17. " Prayer is not God running errands for us!" (Anon.)
18. " If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear Him when He speaks. He stops His ears aginst the prayers of those who stop their ears against His Laws" (T. Brooks)
COMMENT- Notice 1 John 3:22- " And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight."
19. "Satan can hedge you all around, but he can never hedge you in or block you from above!" (Anon)
20. " Nothing lies outside the reach of prayer, except that which is outside the Will of God." (Anon.)
21. WORK AND PRAYER- "Often the Work of the Lord itself may be temptation too keep us from that communuion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.....Let none think that public prayer will make up for closet communion." (George Meuller of Bristol)
22. WORK AND PRAYER- "Here is the great secret of success. Work with all your MIGHT; but trust not in the least of your work. Pray with all your MIGHT for the blessing of God; but work , at the same time with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverence. Pray then, and work. Work and pray. And still again, pray and then work. And so on all the days of your life. The result will surely be, abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, SUCH kind of service will be blessed.....Speak also for the Lord, who alone can cause your efforts to be effectual, to the benefit of your fellow men or fellow believers. Remember, also, that God delights to bestow blessing, but, generally, as the the result of earnest, believing prayer." (George Meuller of Bristol)
23. " Life is fragile...handle with prayer!" (Anon.)
24. " George Meuller considered nothing too small to be the subject of prayer, because nothing it too small to be the suject of God's care. If He numbers our hairs, and notes a sparrow's fall, and clothes the grass in the field , nothing about His children is beneath His tender thought. In every emergency, his one resort was to carry his want to His Father" ( From " George Meuller of Bristol)
25. "God supplies our needs, not our greeds!" (Anon)
COMMENT- Read James 4:3
26. "I have been driven many times to my knees for the overwhelming conviction that I have nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day." (Abraham Lincoln)
27. " He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day." (Bunyan)
28. "Prayer is a virtue that prevaleth against all temptations." (Bernard)
29. "Pray to God at the beginning of all thy works, that so thou mayest bring them all to a good ending." (Xenophone)
30. " Blessed be God. I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up." ( T. Adams)
31. " Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock at night."( George Herbert)
32. " He who ceases to pray, ceases to prosper." (John Ray-English Proverbs)
33. "Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly!" (John Ray- English Proverbs)
COMMENT- In other words, as some have said, "God helps those who help themselves!"
34. "Pray and Work!" (Motto attritbuted to an order of Monks)
35. "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of ." (Tennyson)
36. "The sure relief of prayer." (Woodsworth)
37. "Prayers are heard in Heaven very much in proportion to our faith. Little faith will get very great mercies, but great faith greater". (Charles Sourgeon)
38. "Prayer ardent opens Heaven" (Young)
COMMENT- "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." (James 5:16)
39. "Bear up the hands that hand down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down." — John Wesley
39. "Anything is a blessing which makes us pray." — Charles Spurgeon
40. "Perhaps no sin of omission more frequently occasions this; than the neglect of prayer." — John Wesley
41. "No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance." — Robert E. Lee
42. "I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming." — George Muller
43. " I am SUSTAINED by prayer." — George W.Bush
44. " Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold." — Harriet Beecher Stowe
45. "O, let the place of SECRET PRAYER become to me the most BELOVED SPOT on earth." — Andrew Murray
(To Be Continued!)
We also have available for additional encouragement on prayer these resources —
INSPIRING SCRIPTURES ABOUT PRAYER!
BUT BY PRAYER AND FASTING
FASTING — A Bible Course Lesson
Video Sermon: A GOOD HABIT OF PRAYER
Video Sermon LABOR OF PRAYER
Our good friend with the Church of God International offer this wonderful booklet —
HOW TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN YOUR PRAYER LIFE
