Pray Bold VI

by Matt Bullen March 14, 2017

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Become a prayer expert. Study prayer and prayer warriors.

Most importantly PRAY

One of Satan’s greatest strategies in my life is to downplay the importance of prayer and I have a suspicion that he works similarly in your life as well. As a defense against this diabolical ploy, I maintain a full quiver of books, quotes, and stories about prayer to remind me that prayer is vital and indispensable to my life.

Here are some of the voices that continually remind me of the importance of prayer, the deadly soul destroying dangers of a prayerless life, and help me drown out the lying voices to the contrary.

[quote] “The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.” – Samuel Chadwick[/quote]

[quote]”Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.” – Oswald Chambers[/quote]

[quote]”There is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.” – Samuel Chadwick[/quote]

[quote]”We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power.” – J. Hudson Taylor[/quote]

[quote]”It is in the field of prayer that life’s critical battles are lost or won.” – J.H. Jowett[/quote]

[quote]”Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray, then my dear brother; pray, pray, pray.” – Edward Payson[/quote]

[quote]”Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.” – E.M. Bounds[/quote]

[quote]”Oh, for determined men and women who will rise early and really burn for God. Oh for a faith that will sweep into heaven with the early dawning of morning and have ships from a shoreless sea loaded in the soul’s harbor ere the ordinary laborer has knocked the dew from the scythe or the lackluster has turned from his pallet of straw to spread nature’s treasures of fruit before the early buyers. Oh, for such.” – Homer W. Hodge[/quote]

[quote]”No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.” – E.M. Bounds[/quote]

[quote]”Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.” – J. Sidlow Baxter[/quote]

[quote]”Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying.” – Paul Billheimer[/quote]

[quote]”0h brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper–and sleep too–than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.” – Andrew Bonar[/quote]

[quote]”Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on his knees.” – William Cowper[/quote]

[quote]”As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.” – Martin Luther[/quote]

[quote]”True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.” – C.H. Spurgeon[/quote]

[quote]“What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer” – E.M. Bounds[/quote]

[quote]”You are only ONE PRAYER away from a totally different life.” – Mark Batterson[/quote]