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Preaching of the type mentioned affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display our talents; the closet speaks death to display.
A sermon born in the head reaches the head; a sermon born in the heart reaches the heart. Under God, a spiritual preacher will produce spiritually minded people. Unction
Unction is God’s knighthood for the soldier-preacher who has wrestled in prayer and gained the victory.
By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.
The two prerequisites to successful Christian living are vision and passion, both of which are born in and maintained by prayer.
The two prerequisites to successful Christian living are vision and passion, both of which are born in and maintained by prayer.
The ministry of preaching is open to few; the ministry of prayer—the highest ministry of all human offices—is open to all.
God is not prodigal with His power; but to be much for God, we must be much with God.
A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.
There is a faith that is just natural, intellectual, and logical; there is a faith that is spiritual. What good is it to preach the Word, if, as we present it, there is no kindling faith to make it live?
Praying which is merely putting in a request sheet to the Ruler of the Universe is but the smallest side of this many-faced truth.
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED? —LEONARD RAVENHILL
Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God. —AMY WILSON CARMICHAEL
That which is born in prayer will survive the test. Prayer does business with God. Prayer creates hunger for souls; hunger for souls creates prayer. The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding. To the soul who prays in self-owned weakness, the Lord gives His strength.
