Seeking Biblical Discernment

Jul 24, 2007 at 18:10 o\clock

Quotes on Prayer

by: dondegr0

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little aquaintace with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
- E M Bounds

  • I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. -- Martin Luther

  • Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work. --Oswald Chambers

  • Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace. -- E. M. Bounds

  • Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer. - E. M. Bounds

  • All that true prayer seeks is God Himself, for with Him we get all we need. - The Kneeling Christian

  • "Men ought always to pray, and not faint." - Bible, Luke 18:1

  • Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. -- E. M. Bounds

  • Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. - The Kneeling Christian

  • The only power that God will yield to is that of prayer. - Leonard Ravenhill

  • The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer. - The Kneeling Christian

  • Prayer is not given us as a burden to be borne or an irksome duty to fulfill, but to be a joy and power to which there is no limit. - The Kneeling Christian

  • The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong. - E. M. Bounds

  • The Ministry of Prayer, if it be anything worthy of the Name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and His holiness. - E. M. Bounds

  • "O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth." -- Andrew Murray

  • "The secret of praying is praying in secret." - Leonard Ravenhill

  • Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? - Corrie Ten Boom

  • Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan - John Bunyan

  • Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God. - Andrew Murray

  • There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. - John G. Lake

  • I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it. - John Wesley

  • When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy. - Corrie Ten Boom

  • Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls. - John G. Lake

  • We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer. - Oswald Chambers

  • Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers. --J. Sidlow Baxter

  • Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means for getting something for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. - Oswald Chambers

  • If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray. - Frederick Franson

  • God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. - Oswald Chambers

    • Jul 21, 2007 at 19:18 o\clock

    Confession of Loyalty to Christ

    by: dondegr0

    by Dr. Bob Moorehead

    In 1980 a young man from Rwanda was forced by his tribe to either renounce Christ or face certain death. He refused to renounce Christ, and he was killed on the spot. The night before he had written the following commitment which was found in his room:

    “I’m part of the fellowship of the unashamed, the die has been cast, I have stepped over the line, the decision has been made- I’m a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still.

    My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure. I’m finished and done with low living, sight walking, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed vision, worldly talking, cheap giving & dwarfed goals.

    My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear. I won’t give up, shut up, let up until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up for the cause of Jesus Christ.

    I must go till He comes, give till I drop, preach till everyone knows, work till He stops me & when He comes for His own, He will have no trouble recognizing me because my banner will have been clear.”

    http://www.wayofthemaster.com/confession.shtml

     

    Jul 21, 2007 at 18:29 o\clock

    Quotes for Today

    by: dondegr0

    “The gospel of Satan is not a system of revolutionary principles, nor yet a program of anarchy. It does not promote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daughter nor the father against his son, but fosters the fraternal spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great ‘brotherhood.’ It does not seek to drag down the natural man, but to improve and uplift him. It advocates education and cultivation and appeals to ‘the best that is within us.’ It aims to make this world such a comfortable and congenial habitat that Christ’s absence from it will not be felt and God will not be needed.”
    - A.W. Pink


    “Why are we not one? Sin is the great dividing element. The perfectly holy would be perfectly united. The more saintly men are, the more they love their Lord and one another; and thus they come into closer union with each other. Our errors and our sins are roots of bitterness which spring up and trouble us, and many are defiled. Our infirmities of judgment are aggravated by our imperfections of character, and our walking at a distance from our God; and these breed coldness and lukewarmness, out of which grow disunion and division, sects and heresies.”
    - Charles Spurgeon