The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.
God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.
All God’s plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God’s heart is set on them.
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. “Choked to death” would be the coroner’s verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been held.