03/12/2026
Secret Meditative (knee if possible ) prayer should be daily.
A man can't spend thirty days with God for an hour each morning without seeing change.
An hour a day in prayer, lives will be radically changed.
=Pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
A vital part of the spiritual value system of God .... daily prayer offerings that accumulate...Hours of Prayer ---We are usually awake fourteen to sixteen hours each day.--May 2 Hours try to be used for Building Spiritual Energy ;let this be a consistent NEW Year habit early Morning and order the day in HolySpiritPower.This Change in Our life will produce dramatic Results
The devil could may be concerned How much we try to do in this or that,extending ourselves every direction,writing this,saying that etc etc.But One pattern--The BIGGEST threat to him and his defeat is when we are *on our Knees in daily meditation or in scripture reading.He is defeated by our Connective Power of Union with the HolySpirit electrically becoming Gods Direct Instrument In Our Thought. *** Now thats a weapon!!!
1. "You can do more than pray after you have prayed; but you can never do more than pray until you have prayed." A.J. Gordon
2. "God does nothing except in response to believing prayer." John Wesley (Famous evangelist who spent 2 hours daily in prayer)
3. "Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces." S.D. Gordon
4. "One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer."
5. "The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray." S.D. Gordon
6. "If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer. Martin Luther
7. "The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray." Chuck Smith
8. "Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God." Chuck Smith
9. "Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers." Sidlow Baxter
10. “God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil …” E.M. Bounds
11. “Prayer is where the action is." John Wesley
12. "Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying. Paul E. Billheimer
13. "0h brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber." Andrew A. Bonar
14. "Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees." Corrie ten Boom
15. "Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still." E.M. Bounds
16. "The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day." E.M. Bounds
17. "God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans." E.M. Bounds
18. "The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not!'" (J. Hudson Taylor)
19. "No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack." E.M. Bounds
20. "The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it." E.M. Bounds
21. "It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing." E.M. Bounds
22. "Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on his knees." William Cowper
23. "If the church wants a better pastor, it only needs to pray for the one it has."
24. "Seven days without prayer makes one weak." Allen E. Vartlett
25. "Prayer is the real work, Evangelism is just the mopping up."
26. "You may as soon find a living man that does not breath, as a living Christian that does not pray." Matthew Henry
27. "Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer." John Bunyon
28. "He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life." William Law
29. "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness." Martin Luther.
30. "There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God." Brother Lawrence
31. When asked how much time he spent in prayer, George Muller's reply was, "Hours every day. But I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk and when I lie down and when I arise. And the answers are always coming." Source Unknown.
32. “The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.” Samuel Chadwick
33. “I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” Charles Spurgeon
34. “The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.” Andrew Murray
35. "If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.” (Robert Murray McCheyne)
36. “One day George Mueller began praying for five of his friends. After many months, one of them came to the Lord. Ten years later, two others were converted. It took 25 years before the fourth man was saved. Mueller persevered in prayer until his death for the fifth friend, and throughout those 52 years he never gave up hoping that he would accept Christ! His faith was rewarded, for soon after Mueller’s funeral the last one was saved.”
37. On persevering prayer: "I look at a stone cutter hammering away at a rock a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow it splits in two. I know it was not the one blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
38. "Eighteen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library and read a gospel tract. He couldn't shake off its message. Finally, falling to his knees, he accepted Christ as his Savior. Later, his mother, who had been away, returned home. When Hudson told her the good news, she said, "I already know. Ten days ago, the very date on which you tell me you read that tract, I spent the entire afternoon in prayer for you until the Lord assured me that my wayward son had been brought into the fold." Our Daily Bread, July 19, 1989. [Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) was a famous missionary in China. He was founder of the China Inland Mission which, at his death, included 205 mission stations with over 800 missionaries, and 125,000 Chinese Christians. He spent 51 years in China].
