When someone acts weak, negligent, or casual in a duty - performing it carelessly or lifelessly, without any genuine satisfaction, joy, or interest - he has already entered into the spirit that will lead him into trouble. How many we see today who have departed from warmhearted service and have become negligent, careless, and indifferent in their prayer life or in the reading of the Scriptures. For each one who escapes this peril, a hundred others will be ensnared. Then it may be too late to acknowledge, "I neglected private prayer," or "I did not meditat e on God's Word," or "I did not hear what I should have listened to."
John Owen
Biography-Website
Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.
Kay Arthur
Precept Ministries International
If your day is hemmed in prayer, it is less likely to come unstitched
Anonymous
Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham Organization
You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect it.
Sir Thomas Buxton
For God does not hear us as man hears. Unless you shout with your lungs and chest and lips, a mere man does not hear; whereas to God your very thoughts shout.
Augustine
Works and Biography
You are in your own houses bishops and kings... let there be worship of God morning and evening... and let no day slip over without some comfort received of the word of God.
John Knox
Biography
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A Heart That Dances: Satisfy Your Desire for Intimacy with God By Catherine Martin A close relationship with God is not just a walk; it is a dance of the heart as you keep in step with the Lord. Many people search for religion, but God desires relationship: many people want to do, but God emphasizes that His people should be. In A Heart That Dances, author Catherine Martin presents an eight-week journey of daily quiet times that will help you learn how biblical characters interacted with God and how you can apply that knowledge to your own life. A Heart That Dances will take you on a great adventure of intimacy with God. You will experience firsthand the joy of life with the Lord as the celebration it truly is. |
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
'O Lord God who art all in all to me, Life of my life and Spirit of my spirit, have mercy on me and fill me with Thy Holy Spirit and with love that there may be no room for anything else in my heart. I ask not for any blessing, but for Thyself, who art the giver of all blessings and of all life. I ask not for the world and its pomp and glory, nor for heaven, but I need Thee Thyself, for where Thou art, there is heaven. In Thyself alone is satisfaction and abundance for my heart; Thou Thyself, O Creator, hast created this heart for Thyself, and not for any other created thing. Therefore this heart cannot find rest in aught but Thee: only in Thee, O Father, who hast made this longing for peace. So now take out of this heart whatever is opposed to Thee and abide and rule in it Thyself, Amen
Sadhu Sundar Singh
Short Biography
Prayer should never be understood primarily in terms of power but rather as relating to God who is the source of all power.
Anonymous
Do you need help today? Lift up your hands to the Lord in supplication and in expectation, and soon you will lift up your hands in jubilation and celebration. Unfortunately, many people fail to keep their hands clean. Their evil hands sometimes do dirty work that hurts you. When that happens, you can trust God to take care of evil hands. Keep your hands clean. Look to God, lift your hands to Him and let His hand work for you.
Warren W. Wiersbe
Biography and Daily Devotional
Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone with myself. Shrinking from any deep self-scrutiny is by no means an uncommon thing, and often goes far to explain the feverish restlessness with which a world-loving heart plunges into perpetual rounds of gaieties and dissipations; they serve as an escape from troublesome questions about the soul, and help to get rid of the clamours of conscience.
G. H. Knight
Prayer is being - with - God. As a lover, God desires our presence, as we long for God.
Elaine Ward
A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
John Owen
Biography-Website
When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow... service is gathering up the results.
S. D. Gordon
Biography
Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with Him who alone can deliver us from solitude.
Georges Lefevre
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little and those who are eminently holy pray much.
James Charles J. C. Ryle
Biography and Works
But you have to pray. You have to listen to the voice who calls you the beloved, because otherwise you will run around begging for affirmation, for praise, for success. And then you're not free.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
A believer longs after God - to come into His presence - to feel His love - to feel near to Him in secret - to feel in the crowd that he is nearer than all the creatures. Ah! dear brethren, have you ever tasted this blessedness? There is greater rest and solace to be found in the presence of God for one hour, than in an eternity of the presence of man.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Online Information
Come, Lord Jesus, and abide in my heart. How grateful I am to realize that the answer to my prayer does not depend on me at all. As I quietly abide in You and let Your life flow into me, what freedom it is to know that the Father does not see my threadbare patience or insufficient trust, rather only Your patience, Lord, and Your confidence that the Father has everything in hand. In Your faith I thank You right now for a more glorious answer to my prayer than I can imagine. Amen.
Catherine Marshall
Spiritual Portrait
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Day by Day with Charles Swindoll By Charles Swindoll We all need to spend quiet time in communication with God...and guidance from a leader with Charles Swindoll's wisdom and insight can make the time productive, rewarding, and inspiring. Now available for the first time in paperback, this book is a collection of poignant stories, compelling truths, and heart-warming insights to help readers build a meaningful relationship with God. Based on Scripture and excerpts from his best-selling classic, The Finishing Touch, this collection of 365 daily devotionals provides an anchor to a time of prayer and worship...day by day. |
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Online Books
The spirit of prayer is a pressing forth of the soul out of this earthly life, it is a stretching with all its desire after the life of God, it is a leaving, as far as it can, all its own spirit, to receive a spirit from above, to be one life, one love, one spirit with Christ in God. For the love which God bears to the soul, His eternal, never-ceasing desire to enter into it, and to dwell in it, stays no longer than till the door of the heart opens for Him. For nothing does, or can keep God out of the soul, or hinder His holy union with it, but the desire of the heart turned from Him.
William Law
Biography and Works
Take thy first walk with God! Let Him go forth with thee; by stream, or sea, or mountain path, Seek still His company.
Horatius Bonar
Website
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me.The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
William Wilberforce
Biography
One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.
Brother Lawrence
Biography and Works
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The Man God Uses Devotional Journal By Henry Blackaby & Tom Blackaby Wake up to your God-given growth opportunities hidden in each day's "ordinary" hours! Offering eye-opening Bible verses, quotes, and devotional insights---plus space to record your discoveries---this life-changing tool from the Blackabys will help you tune in to the Christlike acts of service appointed for you. Includes ribbon marker. Recommended Christian Devotional Books Recommended Christian Books on Prayer |
There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God. It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.
John R. Mott
Biography
To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waited for.
G. Campbell Morgan
Biography
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