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Importance
of Prayer
Prayer
Prayer is much like a check
to be countersigned by two parties. I sign the check and send it up to heaven.
If Jesus Christ also signs it
it does not matter how large it is—it will be
honored. ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations
for Biblical Preaching》
Answer
to Prayer
Shortly after Dallas
Seminary was founded in 1924
it came to the point of bankruptcy. All the
creditors were going to foreclose at noon on a particular day. That morning
the founders of the school met in the president’s office to pray that God would
provide. In that prayer meeting was Harry Ironside. When it was his turn to
pray
he prayed in his characteristically refreshing manner: “Lord
we know
that the cattle on a thousand hills are thine. Please sell some of them and
send us the money.”
While they were praying
a
tall Texan came into the business office and said
“I just sold two carloads of
cattle in Fort Worth. I’ve been trying to make a business deal go through and
it won’t work
and I feel that God is compelling me to give this money to the
Seminary. I don’t know if you need it or not
but here’s the check.”
A secretary took the check
and
knowing something of the financial seriousness of the hour
went to the
door of the prayer meeting and timidly tapped. When she finally got a response
Dr. Lewis Chafer took the check out of her hand
and it was for the exact
amount of the debt. When he looked at the signature
he recognized the name of
the cattle rancher. Turning to Dr. Ironside
he said
“Harry
God sold the
cattle!” ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations
for Biblical Preaching》
Importance of Prayer
D.E. Host
the man who took over for Hudson
Taylor
wrote a book titled Behind the Ranges. He was trying to analyze
a problem he had seen while working in two different villages in
Need for Prayer
Do you ever play the game “how far”? Its rules are
really simple-you fill up your gas tank and then drive to see how far you can
go before you fill up again. You watch the gauge nervously as it falls closer
and closer to the beg E.
What about your
spiritual gas tank-do you play “how far” with it
too
trying to see how far
you can get on a single fill-up? ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations
for Biblical Preaching》
Need for Prayer
A four-year-old boy once saw a picture of Christ
praying and asked what Jesus was doing in that picture. When he was told that
Jesus was praying
the youngster responded by asking who Jesus was praying to.
After being told that Jesus was praying to God
the young boy replied
“But
Jesus IS God!”
This
same thought was captured well by St. Cyprian who said
“If He prayed who was
without sin
how much more it becomes a sinner to pray.” ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical
Preaching》
Importance of Prayer
I have so much to do that I must spend the first three hours of each day
in prayer.—Martin Luther
Importance of Prayer
The church has many organizers
but few agonizers; many who pay
but few
who pray; many resters
but few wrestlers; many who are enterprising
but few
who are interceding. People who are not praying and praying. The secret of
praying is praying in secret. A worldly Christian will stop praying and a praying
Christian will stop worldliness. Tithes may build a church
but tears will give
it life. That is the difference between the modern church and the early church.
In the matter of effective praying
never have so many left so much to so few.
Brethren
let us pray.—Leonard Ravenhill
Need for Prayer
Many view God only as a kind of heavenly genie
ready when you rub the
lamp of prayer to appear and say
“Yes
master; what do you want me to do?” But
God is not like that. God is sovereign. God moves according to his own
purposes
and he does not play games with us. He is not to be mollified and
placated by a temporary return to him when we get into difficulty.
Need for Prayer
Do you ever play the game “how far”? Its rules are really simple-you fill
up your gas tank and then drive to see how far you can go before you fill up
again. You watch the gauge nervously as it falls closer and closer to the beg
E.
What about your
spiritual gas tank-do you play “how far” with it
too
trying to see how far
you can get on a single fill-up?
Need for Prayer
A four-year-old boy once saw a picture of Christ praying and asked what
Jesus was doing in that picture. When he was told that Jesus was praying
the
youngster responded by asking who Jesus was praying to. After being told that
Jesus was praying to God
the young boy replied
“But Jesus IS God!”
This same thought
was captured well by St. Cyprian who said
“If He prayed who was without sin
how much more it becomes a sinner to pray.”
Power of Prayer
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin
and desire nothing
but God
and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone
will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. God
does nothing but in answer to prayer.—John Wesley
Prayer
For
the Christian
praying should be like breathing. Just as breathing is the
response of physical life to the presence of air
so prayer should be the
response of spiritual life to the presence of God. ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical
Preaching》
Importance of Prayer
I have so much to do that I must spend the first
three hours of each day in prayer.— Martin Luther
Importance of Prayer
The church has many organizers
but few agonizers;
many who pay
but few who pray; many resters
but few wrestlers; many who are
enterprising
but few who are interceding. People who are not praying and
praying. The secret of praying is praying in secret. A worldly Christian will
stop praying and a praying Christian will stop worldliness. Tithes may build a
church
but tears will give it life. That is the difference between the modern
church and the early church. In the matter of effective praying
never have so
many left so much to so few. Brethren
let us pray.— Leonard Ravenhill
Power of Prayer
Prayer moves the hand that moves the world! ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical
Preaching》
Power of Prayer
Prayer is the only omnipotence God grants to us. ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical
Preaching》