The purposes of prayer

If you want your life to count for eternity, let me encourage you to begin devoting yourself to prayer.

Embrace this fact: Your creator loves you and wants to talk to you. Try to set aside an hour or so. It may seem like your mind wanders and you’re not getting much traction, but if you stick with it, it will bear fruit.

The fruit in my life has been a function of my commitment to prayer. I encourage you to discover the secret of a life committed to prayer. Here are some of the reasons why you should:

“Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.”

– Oswald Chambers

“Prayer is not getting things from God, that is the most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God”

– Oswald Chambers

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.”

– Phillips Brooks

“Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God’s will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won.”

– Wesley L. Duewel

“When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.”

– A.W. Tozer

“No man – I don’t care how colossal his intellect – No man is greater than his prayer life.”

– Leonard Ravenhill

“He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.”

– E.M. Bounds

“I saw something today which affected me more than anything I ever saw or read on religion. While the battle was raging and the bullets were flying, Jackson rode by, calm as if he were at home, but his head was raised toward heaven, and his lips were moving evidently in prayer.”

– William J. Federer on Stonewall Jackson.

“The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.”

– Jim Cymbala