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Prevailing Prayer (Moody Classics) Prevailing Prayer by Dwight L. Moody
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“If our spiritually dead ones are to be raised, we must first get power with God. 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. We”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that buildeth up. If we pray without reading the Word, we shall be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical, and liable to be blown about by every wind of doctrine.”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“Sometimes, when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes right from the heart, God understands our language.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“My experience is that those who pray most in their closets generally make short prayers in public.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“Here we are, getting blessings from God day after day; yet how little praise and thanksgiving there is in the Church”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“only when we get serious with God can we expect an answer.”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“seek by prayer “to move the Arm that moves the world.” D. L. MOODY”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“Fiery trials make golden Christians; sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“If we have done wrong to some one, we should never ask God to forgive us until we are willing to make restitution.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“I think we shall find a great many of our prayers that we thought unanswered answered when we get to heaven”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“Too often we knock at mercy’s door, and then run away, instead of waiting for an entrance and an answer.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“If our sermons are going to reach the hearts and consciences of the people, we must be much in prayer to God, that there may be power with the Word. In”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“So when we get really into communion with God, He lifts up His countenance upon us; and instead of our having gloomy looks, our faces will shine, because God has heard and answered our prayers. Jesus,”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“Prayer was appointed to convey The blessings God designs to give; Long as they live should Christians pray, For only while they pray they live.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer (Updated, Annotated): A Thorough Study on the Subject of Prayer
“Faith has no desire to have its own will, when that will is not in accordance with the mind of God; for such a desire would at bottom be the impulse of an unbelief which did not rely upon God’s judgment as our best guide. Faith knows that God’s will is the highest good, and that anything which is beneficial to us will be granted to our petitions.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“Those who have left the deepest impression on this sin-cursed earth have been men and women of prayer.”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that buildeth up. If we pray without reading the Word, we shall be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical, and liable to be blown about by every wind of doctrine. The”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“So all through the Scriptures you will find that when believing prayer went up to God, the answer came down.”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” Now in the fourth chapter of James, in the third verse, we find some spoken of whose prayers were not answered: “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.” There are a great many prayers not answered because there is not the right motive; we have not complied with the Word of God; we ask amiss.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“As some one has said, God kissed away his soul, and took him home to Himself. “God buried him”—the greatest honor ever paid to mortal man.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“Nothing will silence infidels so quickly as Christians everywhere being united.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“If we love the Lord Jesus Christ the burden of our hearts will be that God may bring us closer together, so that we may love one another and rise above all party feeling.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“No, not despairingly Come I to Thee; No, not distrustingly Bend I the knee; Sin hath gone over me, Yet is this still my plea, Jesus hath died. Ah, mine iniquity Crimson has been; Infinite, infinite, Sin upon sin; Sin of not loving Thee, Sin of not trusting Thee. Infinite sin. Lord, I confess to Thee Sadly my sin; All I am, tell I Thee, All I have been. Purge Thou my sin away, Wash Thou my soul this day; Lord, make me clean!”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“To do that, we must be clear and right before God. “For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“About 1,500 gathered for two hours of lively, focused prayer. Later, I asked Pastor Jim Cymbala why so many were attending the Brooklyn Tab prayer meetings when many other churches have cancelled their prayer meetings for lack of interest. He answered, “You would also have a full church on prayer meeting night if your people actually believed that God answers prayer!” If we actually believed God answers prayer!”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“When the church, the pulpit, and the pew get united, and God’s people are all of one mind, Christianity is like a red-hot ball rolling over the earth, and all the hosts of death and hell cannot stand before it.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“If you get love into your soul, so that the grace of God may come down in answer to prayer, there will be no trouble about reaching the people. It is not by eloquent sermons that perishing souls are going to be reached; we need the power of God in order that the blessing may come down. The”
D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“All true prayer must be offered in full submission to God. After we have made our requests known to him”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer (Updated, Annotated): A Thorough Study on the Subject of Prayer
“Charles Finney, in his lectures to professing Christians, said, “One reason for the requirement, ‘Be not conformed to this world,’ is the immense, salutary, and instantaneous influence it would have, if everybody would do business on the principles of the gospel.” Finney suggested we turn the tables over and let Christians do business on gospel principles for one year.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer (Updated, Annotated): A Thorough Study on the Subject of Prayer
“is not by eloquent sermons that perishing souls are going to be reached; we need the power of God in order that the blessing may come down.”
Dwight L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer (Updated, Annotated): A Thorough Study on the Subject of Prayer

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