Power of Prayer

“Pray reading the Bible is the most powerful thing I have learned to do.”

Mike Bickle, Director International House of Prayer Missions Base in Kansas City

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“As Christians we all need a deeper understanding of prayer, for what higher hope can we possibly have than to be linked with the Creator of the universe, to be able to tap His divine power? Nothing can be more pressing than that God’s people should experience all the supernatural power he has available for them.” Paul Bunday

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“God is calling His people –and His pastors-to know the power and privilege of prayer.”

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala, Senior Pastor, Brooklyn Tabernacle

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“I have seen God do more in people’s lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.”

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala

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“I think the most important thing I’ve learned — in a positive way — is to encourage people to pray. Before we began our ministry at UCLA, we organized a 24-hour prayer chain, dividing the 24 hours into 15-minute periods. As a result, in almost every meeting we had at UCLA — faculty, sorority, fraternity and dormitory — people indicated their desire to follow Christ. I think more recently, in 1994, God taught me the power of fasting and prayer. I think it’s the spiritual atomic bomb of all the disciplines.”

Bill Bright, Founder Campus Crusade for Christ

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“I believe prayer and fasting is the course God would have us take;

nothing else can reverse the destructive path of our nation.”

Kay Arthur

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Prayer is the most important tool for your mission in the world.

People may refuse our love or reject our message,

but they are defenseless against our prayers.

The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

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“To pray effectively we must want what God wants-that and only that is to pray in the will of God.  And no petition made in the will of God was ever refused.”

A.W. Tozer

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“Prayer must be our first resource, not our last resort.”

Henry Blackaby

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“Prayer is a two-way fellowship and communication with God…

what God says in prayer is far more important than what you say.”

Henry Blackaby

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“You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes

His work through you. “

Henry Blackaby

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“There is no limit to what God can do through the man or woman who is  fully committed to Him.”

John Maxwell

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“God wants us to ask Him for the impossible! God can do things that man cannot do. He would not be God if this were not so. That is why He has graciously made prayer a law of life. “If you will ask…I will do.”

Mrs. Charles Cowman

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“God does nothing but by the prayers of His saints.”

John Wesley

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When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.”

J. Hudson Taylor

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Today, as always, there is an urgent need for us to pray for “all who are in authority”

Joanie Yoder

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“In intercession, believers go before God and beseech Him on behalf of others.”

Dr. Alvin VanderGriend

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“In the ongoing work of God, intercessory prayer is of prime importance.  People desperately need our intercessory prayers.”

Dr. Alvin VanderGriend

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“Prayer is a two-way conversation; it is our talking to God, and His talking to us. As a Christian, you have a heavenly Father who hears and answers prayer. Jesus said, “All things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.” every man or woman whose life has counted for the church and the Kingdom of God has been a person of prayer. You cannot afford to be too busy to pray. A prayer less Christian is a powerless Christian. Jesus Christ spent many hours in prayer. Sometimes He spent the night on a mountaintop in solitary commune with God the Father.

“If He felt that He had to pray, how much more do we need to pray!”

Billy Graham

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“The Spirit Himself makes intercession,” indicates that it is actually God pleading. Praying, and mourning through us. Thus we become co laborers with God, actual partners with Him; our lives are lifted from low plane of selfishness to the high plane of creativeness with God.”

Billy Graham

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“There seem to be an instinct in man to pray in times of trouble. We know “there are no atheists in foxholes,” but the kind of Christianity that fails to reach into our everyday lives will never change the world. Develop the power of prayer. Man is more powerful when he is in prayer than when he is behind the most powerful guns. A nation is more powerful when it unites in earnest prayer to God than when its resources are channeled into defensive weapons.

“The answers to all our problems can be had through contact with almighty God.”

Billy Graham

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“God has said, “If my people…pray… then will I hear from heaven.” Before three thousand people were brought into the Church on the day of Pentecost, The disciples had spent ten days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail. God desires that Christians be concerned and burdened for the lost world. If we pray this kind of prayer, an era of peace may come to the world and hordes of wickedness may be turned back.”

Billy Graham

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“The worst sin is prayerlessness.”

P. T. Forsyth

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“Once you experience the power of God unleashed in your life through prayer, you will never be the same. Nor will you settle for anything less.”

The Power of Praying Together by Stormie Omartin with Jack Hayford

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“When I learned to pray with others about the things that concerned me, I found myself praying more and with greater direction and purpose… I came to see that wonderful things happened in my life, not only because I was being prayed for but also because I was praying for others.”

The Power of Praying Together by Stormie Omartin with Jack Hayford

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“God answers prayer in the best way—not just sometimes, but every time.”

My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

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‘Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God.”

My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

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“The most powerful man on earth is a man of prayer.”

Charles Stanley

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The correct concept is to think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts. Our blood flows and our breathing continues “without ceasing”; we are not even conscious of it, but it never stops. And we are not always conscious of Jesus keeping and obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer. “Pray without ceasing . . .”—maintain the childlike habit of offering up prayer in your heart to God all the time.”

My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

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“The greatest motivator to pray is answered prayer.”

C. Peter Wagoner

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“The purpose of prayer is not to persuade or influence God, but to join forces with him against the enemy. “When we don’t feel like praying is the moment we need to pray the most.  Too often, we get in the middle of a mood swing and stay away from the presence of God because we don’t feel like it. The devil wins. “It is in Satan’s best interest to keep the saints off their knees. Praying Christians are dangerous Christians. So Satan tries every trick in the book to keep us from staying in touch with God”

S. D Gordan

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“In proportion as you feed on the Word and are filled with the Word and retain the Word in your faith and obey the Word in your life, in the same proportion you will be a master in the art of prayer.”

Charles Surgeon

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Supernatural, miraculous living is all too rare. God says that normal life in Jesus is characterized by eager expectation of His mighty deeds accomplished though His people.  He calls us now to dream His dreams, to ask Him daily to display His power.”

The Time is Now – Developing a Lifestyle of Prayer by Pastor Dee Duke

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“If Christians would at once believe, and apply the promises, meet God on the ground that he has promised to meet them, they would find in their own experience how much value there is in prayer, and how powerfully they can prevail with God. They would find that there was a cheerfulness and willingness on God’s part to meet them at every point. Many individuals plead the promises without fulfilling their conditions, and then they lose their faith in the promises, because they are not fulfilled in their experiences. The reason of this is because they have not fulfilled the required conditions. I have no doubt but it is a common thing for men to pray themselves out of all confidence in prayer, because they fail to fulfill the conditions on which God has promised them. How general is it that we find professors of religion have but very little confidence in prayer; and why is this? Because they have come to regard prayer as a duty, rather than as something that can prevail with God. Brethren, if you would enjoy communion with God, and prevail with him, you must look upon prayer as something more than a duty. You must take hold of prayer, as a sure instrument by which you can move God’s hand, his arm, and his heart, and then you will do it.” Charles Finney 1850

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“I am now convinced, it is my duty and privilege, and duty of every other Christian, to pray for as much of the Holy Spirit as came down on the day of Pentecost, and a great deal more.”

Pastor Daniel Nash

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