Prayer

In 1722, Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, troubled by the suffering of Christian exiles from Bohemia and Moravia, allowed them to establish a community on his estate in Germany. The center became known as Herrnhut, meaning “Under the Lord’s Watch.”…

“Prayer at its highest is a twoway conversation,” writes Frank Laubach, “and for me the most important part is listening—to God’s replies.”

One can hardly imagine that there is any person in the world who does not, for one reason or another, feel like praying. The impulse to pray is as natural as breathing…

PG-Rated Prayer walked the darkened neighborhood streets. Except for the usual background hum of the city, quiet i. enveloped me. It was the same route I had taken the last few Saturday nights…

Said Phillips Brooks: “Prayer is not the overcoming of God’s reluctance; it is the taking hold of God’s willing- ” ness.

Our Father in heaven, we thank thee for the comradeship of prayer. As we reverently wait before thee make us gratefully sensible of the great company, to us unseen, who unite their prayers with ours…

Most gracious God, our heavenly Father, in whom alone dwelleth all fulness of light and wisdom: illumine our minds, we beseech thee, by thy Holy Spirit, in the true understanding of thy Word…

Dr. Andrew Bonar, with his little daughter, went into his church one weekday, seating her in a rear pew. After a long wait she stood up to look for her father. He was in a pew, his head bent forward…

“Prayer,” said Martin Luther, “is a climbing up of the heart into God. None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.”…

Elisha A. Hoffinan was born May 7, 18 39, in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. His father was a minister, and Elisha followed Christ at a young age…

We hear it said that it is useless to pray in a law- abiding world. Why pray in the face of inexorable law?…

“You have, as I verily believe and am persuaded,” Oliver Cromwell wrote to his admirals at sea, “a plentiful stock of prayers going for you daily, sent up by the soberest and most approved ministers and Christians in this nation; and, notwithstanding…

“Twelve years ago I undertook to practice prayer in earnest,” wrote Winifred Kirkland in As Far As I Can See, “something very different from my previous sleepy petitions as I snuggled into bed, and also different from the terrorstricken appeals I had…

Our heavenly Father, Shepherd of the journeying generations, amid so much that changes and decays, we praise thy holy name that thou art the same yesterday, today and forever. The burden of our prayer is for our youth…

Savonarola said ironically that the saints of his day were so busy talking to God that they could not listen to him.

Two went to pray?…

£Prayer A woman in utter despair, unfamiliar with God or prayer, knelt, clasped her hands and cried, “Somebody ... something!” A simple French peasant, seen going into the cathedral day after day, was asked what happened to him when he went there…

‘’Because You Ask Not’’ Evangelist John R. Rice once wrote, “I once imagined I was in Heaven. Walking along with the Angel Gabriel I said, ‘Gabe, what is that big building there?’…

Evangelist Oral Roberts says that his mother’s advice is the best he has ever heard on the subject of prayer. He was very ill, a seventeen-year-old invalid, when his mother said, “Oral, you must give your life to God…

A little boy reported to his mother: “Mommie, I don’t have to say my prayers any more. I know them now.” Learning to Pray

Make thy tranquillity, O Lord, to dwell amongst us, and thy peace to abide in our hearts. May our voices proclaim thy truth, and may thy Cross be the guardian of our souls…

“Pray” is a four letter word that you can say anywhere (except in a public school).

Brenda was a young woman that wanted to learn to go rock climbing. So although she was scared to death, she went with a group and they faced this tremendous cliff of rock, practically perpendicular…

MY LITTLE FRIENDS: I am sure that every boy and girl in this room knows what it is to be hungry. It is a part of our childhood experience to feel hungry almost every day…

Once there were three trees on a hill in the woods. They were discussing their hopes and dreams when the first tree said, “Someday I hope to be a treasure chest. I could be filled with gold, silver, and precious gems…

In a Boston bookstore the manager flashed a gleaming eye to his customer, “I have just found a book I have been searching for for seventeen years. Come this way and I’ll show you.”…

When I was a young boy--before I was a Christian--I was in a field one day with a man who was hoeing. He was weeping, and he told me a strange story, which I have never forgotten…

The late Bishop Joseph Berry said, “I do not go on the railroad train without seeking out someone that gives me at least one opportunity to say a good word for Jesus Christ.”…

WE HAVE a sprinkler system in our lawn, and there was a time a few years ago that I couldn’t get it to come on. I called a serviceman over and asked him to take a look at it…

One of the chaplains of our army relates the following experience. A raw recruit from the West Virginia hills came into his army barracks for his first day. He was tall, lean, and lanky and had a slightly high-pitched nasal voice…

At the Fulton street prayer-meeting a man came in, and this was his story. He said he had a mother who prayed for him; he was a wild, reckless prodigal. Some time after his mother’s death he began to be troubled…

GEORGE Mueller of England was one of the great men of faith. He had an orphanage and ran the orphanage day by day, depending on God. Once, they ran out of food…

It is impossible to measure the influence which may be exerted by a single act, a word, or even a look. It was the simple act of an entire stranger that changed the course of my whole life…

I remember a mother coming to me and saying, “It is easy enough for you to speak in that way; if you had the burden that I’ve got, you couldn’t cast it on the Lord.”…

A lady stood up in a prayer meeting in an Eastern city and spoke as follows: “It had been some years since my husband was traveling in Europe, and I was left alone with my maids in a large lonely house in…

John the Pharmacist was on duty that particular night to keep the pharmacy open all night long. As the evening continued and finally as midnight came John was pretty tired…

I heard a story about two young men who came to New York City from the country on a visit. They went to the same boarding-house to stay and took a room together…

No preacher in America has moved his generation more deeply than Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, Texas. His simple eloquence mightily moved great congregations…

An Eye Witness Account from New York City, on a cold day in December: A little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold…

A knock came to her door. She was a sweet Catholic lady in an apartment complex and her caller was a young man offering in-home Bible studies. She was very open to study the Bible…

A MINISTER received a letter from the governor welcoming him to open a city council meeting in a word of prayer…

I may relate a little experience. In Philadelphia, at one of our meetings, a drunken man rose up. Till that time I had no faith that a drunken man could be converted. When any one approached he was generally taken out…

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

“’O almighty and everlasting God…if it is only in the strength of this world that I must put my trust, all is over…. This is not my work, but Thine… And it is a righteous and eternal cause. O Lord, help me!”

This is Thy holy Sabbath, Lord! I pray, Teach me to keep it as Thou woulds’t today. As precious pearls, let all the moments run Through golden hours, from sun to set of sun…

If you have assurance, be careful you do not lose it; keep it; for it is your life, viz., bene esse, the comfort of your life. Keep assurance.— 1st…

An Irishman, tired of the Irish squabbles, said, “If we were only all atheists, we could live like Christians.”…

One evening a young man attended a Bible prophecy seminar. He appeared to be as normal as the others attending. At the conclusion of the presentation, the young man approached the speaker and asked for a private interview…