Spurgeon on Prayer Spiritual Warfare Quotes

“If God’s mercies were to come to us unasked, they would not be half as useful as they now are, when they have to be sought for.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“Remarkably, Psalm 50:15 was originally written to those who had mocked God. They had presented their sacrifices without a true heart. Yet the Lord said to each of them, “Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee.” I gather from this that God excludes none from the promise. You atheist, you blasphemer, you immoral and impure one, if you call upon the Lord now, in the day of your trouble, He will deliver you! Come and try Him. Do you say, “If there is a God”? I declare that there is a God. Come, put Him to the test and see. He says, “Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee.” Will you not test Him now and find Him true? Come here, you enslaved ones, and see if He does not free you! Come to Christ, all of you who labor and are burdened down, and He will give you rest (Matt. 11:28)! In both temporal and spiritual things, but especially in spiritual things, call upon Him in the day of trouble, and He will deliver you.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“When you plead the name of Christ, you plead that which shakes the gates of hell and that which the hosts of heaven obey, and God Himself feels the sacred power of that divine plea.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Spirit puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“When the Creator gives His creature the power of thirst, it is because water exists to meet its thirst. When He creates hunger, there is food to correspond to the appetite. Even so, when He inclines men to pray, it is because prayer has a corresponding blessing connected with it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“Furthermore, if you are still in the cave of doubt and sin, plead with God to set you free. You cannot present a better prayer than the prayer of David in the cave: “Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name” (Ps. 142:7). If you are in prison, you cannot get out by yourself. You may grab the bars and try to shake them, but they are unmovable. You cannot break them with your hands. You may meditate, think, invent, and devise, but you cannot get through those bars. However, there is a hand that can cut bars of iron. Oh, prisoner in the iron cage, there is a hand that can open your cage and set you free! You do not have to be a prisoner. You do not have to be confined. You may walk in freedom through Jesus Christ, the Savior. Only trust Him, and believingly pray David’s prayer right now: “Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name” (v. 7). He will set you free!”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“does seem an incredible thing that such guilty nothings should have power to move the arm that moves the world.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“Alas, a great many people play at praying; it is nothing better. I say they play at praying; they do not expect God to give them an answer, and thus they are mere triflers who mock the Lord. He who prays in a businesslike way, meaning what he says, honors the Lord.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“Faith’s art of wrestling is to plead with God and say with boldness, “Let it be thus and thus, for these reasons.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“kisses the hand that struck him, and he seeks shelter from the rod in the arms of that very God who frowned”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“These three modes of prayer suit us in different stages of distress. There I am, a poor beggar at mercy’s door; I ask, and I will receive. But suppose I lose my way so that I cannot find Him of whom I once asked so successfully. Well, then I may seek with the certainty that I will find. And if I am in the last stage of all, not merely poor and bewildered, but so defiled that I feel shut out from God, like a leper shut out of the camp, then I may knock and the door will open to me.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“The Father himself loveth you” (John 16:27).”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

“There are many who appear to be very mighty in prayer, wondrous in supplications, but they require God to do what they can do themselves. Therefore, God does nothing at all for them.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare