The Hour That Changes the World Quotes

“Little of the Word with little prayer is death to the spiritual life. Much of the Word with little prayer gives a sickly life. Much prayer with little of the Word gives more life, but without steadfastness. A full measure of the Word and prayer each day gives a healthy and powerful life.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Wise is the statement that there is much we can do after we have prayed but nothing we can do until we have prayed. Thus,”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“J. C. Ryle adds these insights: “Prayer has obtained things that seemed impossible and out of reach. It has won victories over fire, air, earth and water. Prayer opened the Red Sea. Prayer brought water from the rock and bread from Heaven. Prayer made the sun stand still. Prayer brought fire from the sky on Elijah’s sacrifice. Prayer overthrew the army of Sennacherib. Prayer has healed the sick. Prayer has raised the dead. Prayer has procured the conversion of countless souls.”13”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Dr. E. Stanley Jones explains, “In prayer you align yourselves to the purpose and power of God and He is able to do things through you that He couldn’t do otherwise. For this is an open universe, where some things are left open, contingent upon our doing them. If we do not do them, they will never be done. For God has left certain things open to prayer—things which will never be done except as we pray.”4”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Prayer is the vision of the believer. It gives eyes to our faith. In prayer we see beyond ourselves and focus spiritual eyes on God’s infinite power. Prayer is also man’s ultimate indication of trust in his heavenly Father. Only in prayer do we surrender our problems completely to God and ask for divine intervention.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Where there is an absence of prayer there will be an absence of power. Where there is frequency of prayer there will be a continuing display of God’s power.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“It seems that God is clearly calling His people everywhere to prayer, and as Matthew Henry said generations ago, “Whenever God is preparing to do something great in the earth, He first sets His people a-praying!”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Asking is the symbol of our desire,”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Waiting is not praise, though it is closely related to praise and flows directly from it. Praise is verbalizing our esteem of God. Waiting is a time of silent love. Praise cries boldly, “God, I see these excellent qualities in your nature.” Waiting says softly, “God, I love you.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“It is spiritually healthy to take a need apart, piece by piece, during prayer. Analyze the problem from every angle and then express it as a petition. The more specific and complete the petition, the more faith is generated when we bring it to God.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Prayer,” said E. M. Bounds, “projects faith on God, and God on the world. Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer move God.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Oh, to see our Saviour’s face!
From sin and sorrow to be freed! To dwell in His divine embrace—
This will be sweeter far indeed! The fairest form of earthly bliss
Is less than nought compared with this. Lord, teach me to wait!”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Take time in the inner chamber to bow down and worship; and wait on Him until He unveils Himself, and takes possession of you, and goes out with you to show how a man can live and walk in abiding fellowship with an unseen Lord.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Surely there is no higher plane for prayer than intercession. What could be more important than participating in the redemption of another being through prayer? True, our prayer does not save the sinner, but somehow it serves to prepare his heart for the moment word reaches him of Christ’s love. Search for a person who claims to have found Christ apart from someone else’s prayer, and your search may go on forever.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“Prayer is the divine enigma—that marvelous mystery hidden behind the cloud of God’s omnipotence.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost, it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed).”1”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“But prayer is more. Prayer is the vision of the believer. It gives eyes to our faith. In prayer we see beyond ourselves and focus spiritual eyes on God’s infinite power.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

“What we do for the Lord is entirely dependent upon what we are in the Lord. Further, what we are in the Lord wholly depends upon what we receive from the Lord. And what we receive from the Lord is directly proportional to the time we spend alone with the Lord in prayer.”
― Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer