by Tim Cameron | Dec 13, 2016 | andrew murray
Prayer and the Word are inseparable and should always go together. In His Word God speaks to me, and in prayer I speak to God. Through the Word the Holy Spirit shows me who God is. The Word also teaches me how sinful I am. It reveals to me all the wonders that God will do for me, and the strength He will give me to do to His will. The Word teaches me how to pray—with strong desire, a firm faith, and constant perseverance. The Word teaches me not only who I am, but who I may become. Above all it reminds me that Chris is the great intercessor and He allows me to pray in His name.
Learn to renew your strength each day in God’s Word and pray according to His will. Do you think it’s impossible for you to be obedient? It may be impossible to you, but not to God. He has promised to “put My Spirit in you so you will obey My laws.” Pray and mediate to these words.
Andrew Murray
by Tim Cameron | Dec 12, 2016 | andrew murray
by Tim Cameron | Dec 1, 2016 | E M Bounds
On Prayerless Praying
Our religion breaks down most often and most sadly in our conduct. Beautiful theories are marred by ugly lives. The most difficult, as well as most impressive, point in piety is to live it. Our praying suffers from bad living as much as our religion does. Preachers were charged in earlier times to preach by their lives or to not preach at all. So Christian everywhere ought to be charged to pray by their lives or to not pray at all.
Of course, the prayer of repentance is acceptable; but repentance means to quit doing wrong and learn too do well. A repentance that does not produce a change in conduct is a sham. Praying that does not result in pure conduct is a delusion; it is prayerless.
We have missed he whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify our conduct.
E. M. Bounds
by Tim Cameron | Nov 26, 2016 | Holy Spirit, prayer
If we get away from brooding on the tragedy of God upon he Cross in our preaching, it produces nothing. It does not convey the energy of God to man; it may be interesting but it has no power. But preach the Cross-, and the energy of God is let loose. It pleased God to by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. “We preach Christ crucified.”
You see, we lose power if we can’t concentrate on the right thing. The effect of the Cross is salvation, sanctification, healing, etc., but we are not to preach any of these, we are to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified. We have to concentrate on the great point of spiritual energy—the Cross, to keep in contact with that center where all power lies, and the energy will be let loose.
Oswald Chambers
by Tim Cameron | Nov 24, 2016 | J Hudson Taylor
Perhaps if there we knew more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears in prayer, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things that can be reached through prayer may be the true cause of our want of success.
J. Hudson Taylor
by Tim Cameron | Nov 22, 2016 | Francis Frangipane, Holy Spirit, prayer
The Place of Immunity
Considering the size of God’s promises, it is actually a misfortune that most of us have no more time than a few minutes of devotions each day and a church service or two a week. The secret place in prayer and communion with our God is not a place to come and visit now and then, but a dwelling. For those who dwell with God, His presence is not merely our refuge, it is a permanent address.
This place of communion of heart between Christ and His bride is the place of immunity. It is God’s shelter from the distress and distractions of life. Here, He tells us what to pray; and here our prayers are answered.
Francis Frangipane
by Tim Cameron | Nov 22, 2016 | Holy Spirit, prayer, T. M. Anderson
We cannot ignore the fact that we desperately need a startling manifestation of God to shake us out of our spiritual lethargy and selfish complacency. We cannot substitute a program for power and have the least semblance of hope that the unsaved will be attracted by it.
Unless believers in the church today have their spiritual strength replenished repeatedly by the Spirit they will not be able to overcome the increasing power of spiritual wickedness threatening them today. The church cannot cope with the menacing threat of worldliness except the companies of believers pray for power to meet the insidious threat.
T. M. Anderson in 1937
by Tim Cameron | Nov 16, 2016 | Holy Spirit
Have You Done Any of This Lately?
The two prerequisites to successful Christian living are vision and passion, both of which are born in and maintained by prayer. The ministry of preaching is open to few; the ministry of prayer—the highest ministry of all human offices—is open to all. Spiritual adolescents say, “I’ll not go tonight, it’s only a prayer meting.” It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God’s people praying.
Modern Christians know little of “binding and loosing,” thought the onus is on us—“Whatsoever ye shall bind…” Have you done any of this lately? God is no prodigal with His power; but to be much for God, we must be much with God.
Leonard Ravenhill
by Tim Cameron | Nov 11, 2016 | Beth Moore, prayer
What Are the Weapons of Our Warfare?
In Ephesians 6:10-18, Paul listed the whole armor of God. Only one piece of the armor is actually a weapon. The sword of the Spirit is clearly identified as the Word of God. 2 Corinthians 10:3 uses the plural, assuring us we have weapons for warfare. What would be the other primary weapon? I believe the other primary weapon of our warfare is stated right after the words identifying the sword of the Spirit as the Word of God in Ephesians 6:17. The next verse says “And pray in the Spirit on all occasions.”
I am utterly convinced that the two major weapons with divine power in our warfare are:
· The Word of God
· Spirit-empowered prayer
God has given us these two sticks of dynamite to demolish the enemy.
Beth Moore
by Tim Cameron | Nov 10, 2016 | Dick Eastman, prayer
Elijah Was a Man
Provoking Thoughts on Prayer
James 5:17 “Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.”
Twice in my life I’ve been compelled to spend a month in prayer. The two occasions of spending a month in prayer involved setting aside my usual office hours and other assignments exclusively to seek God in prayer for an entire month. I would eat meals with my family, but the rest of these days were spent in worship and prayer.
I was in prayer when I felt the Holy Spirit speak, “I want you to confront the strongholds of Communism in Eastern Europe.” I immediately saw in my mind the Berlin Wall. I sensed the Lord was calling me to travel six thousand miles from where I lived and once there in West Berlin, I was to lay my hands on the call and simply tell it to come down “in Jesus name”. In just a few months I was there and obeyed. Little more than a year later, the Berlin wall itself would come crashing down.
Dick Eastman
