Prevailing Prayer (Moody Classics)

by Dwight L. Moody

The reason we so often fail in moving our fellowmen is that we try to win them without first getting power with God. Jesus was in communion with His Father, and so He could be assured that His prayers were heard.

My experience is that those who pray most in their closets generally make short prayers in public.

Dr. Guthrie thus speaks of prayer and its necessity: “The first true sign of spiritual life, prayer, is also the means of maintaining it. Man can as well live physically without breathing, as spiritually without praying. There is a class of animals—

Sir Matthew Hale says: “If I omit praying and reading God’s Word in the morning, nothing goes well all day.”

So when our prayers for earthly things are not answered, let us submit to the will of God, and know that it is all right.