10/29/2023 0 Comments Pray sam smith quotesThe reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more.If your knees are shaking, kneel on them.It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.Prayer is no more inconsistent with the unchangeable purposes of God, than the use of any other means for God in forming his purposes had respect to all appropriate means of producing the intended ends, and among these prayer has an important place.I’ve prayed many prayers when no answer came,īut answers have come to enough of my prayers.Everything will hinge upon the power of prayer in the church. Instead of putting united prayer last, put it first. Believe me, if a church does not pray, it is dead. If you pray yourself, you will want them to pray with you and when they begin to pray with you, and for you, and for the work of the Lord, they will want more prayer themselves, and the appetite will grow. Study to show yourselves approved by the prayerfulness of your people. Oh, my brothers, let it not be so with you! Do train the people to continually meet together for prayer. There is no interest, no power, in connection with the meeting. In many churches the prayer-meeting is only the skeleton of a gathering: the form is kept up, but the people do not come. Even if there were only one such, it would be one to weep over. Churches without prayer-meetings are grievously common. If a church is to be what it ought to be for the purposes of God, we must train it in the holy art of prayer.
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