Tag: Power Through Prayer

  • PRAYER AND DEVOTION UNITED

    Power Through Prayer There is a manifest want of spiritual influence on the ministry of the present day. I feel it in my own case and I see it in that of others. I am afraid there is too much of a low, managing, contriving, maneuvering temper of mind among us. We are laying ourselves…

  • BEGIN THE DAY WITH PRAYER

    Power Through Prayer I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o’clock before I begin secret prayer. This is a wretched system. It is unscriptural. Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. David says: “Early will I…

  • EXAMPLES OF PRAYING MEN

    Power Through Prayer The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge BISHOP WILSON says: “In H. Martyn’s journal…

  • MUCH TIME SHOULD BE GIVEN TO PRAYER

    Power Through Prayer The great masters and teachers in Christian doctrine have always found in prayer their highest source of illumination. Not to go beyond the limits of the English Church, it is recorded of Bishop Andrews that he spent five hours daily on his knees. The greatest practical resolves that have enriched and beautified…

  • PRAYER, THE GREAT ESSENTIAL

    Power Through Prayer You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect it—Sir Thomas Buxton Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray, then, my dear brother: pray, pray, pray — Edward Payson PRAYER, in the preacher’s life, in the preacher’s…

  • TENDENCIES TO BE AVOIDED

    Power Through Prayer, Let us often look at Brainerd in the woods of America pouring out his very soul before God for the perishing heathen without whose salvation nothing could make him happy. Prayer—secret fervent believing prayer—lies at the root of all personal godliness. A competent knowledge of the language where a missionary lives, a…

  • THE LETTER KILLETH

    Power Through Prayer, E. M. Bounds During this affliction I was brought to examine my life in relation to eternity closer than I had done when in the enjoyment of health. In this examination relative to the discharge of my duties toward my fellow creatures as a man, a Christian minister, and an officer of…