Trials give new life to prayer.
John Newton
HT: @CJMahaney
Tag Archives: Prayer
Keep on Praying
The Key of Heaven
Prayer is the key of heaven; the Spirit helps faith to turn this key.
Prayerless, Christless, Godless
A praying Master, like Jesus, can have no prayerless servants. The Spirit of adoption will always make a man call upon God. To be prayerless is to be Christless, Godless, and in the high road to destruction.
J. C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Mark (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2012), 14.
Liberty Springs from an Abiding Faith in God
The public expression through prayer of our faith in God is a fundamental part of our American heritage and a privilege which should not be excluded by law from any American school, public or private. One hundred fifty years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville found that all Americans believed that religious faith was indispensable to the maintenance of their republican institutions. Today, I join with the people of this nation in acknowledging this basic truth, that our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.
Ronald Reagan, May 17, 1982, in a proposed Constitutional amendment for prayer in schools
A Simple Prayer of Faith
Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
HT: @PastorAlex
Pastor, Give Yourself to Prayer (Part 2)
Prayer is one half of our ministry; and it gives to the other half all its power and success.
HT: @artazurdia
George Washington on His Knees
Its been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified a people who knew that it was not enough to depend on their own courage and goodness, that they must seek help from God — their Father and Preserver. Where did we begin to lose sight of that noble beginning, of our convictions that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to?
Ronald Reagan, Feb. 9, 1982, National Religious Broadcasters Annual Convention
A Godly Path Is the Essence of Liberty
While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful, the first thought was thanksgiving to God. Prayer is today as powerful a force in our nation as it has ever been. We as a nation should never forget this source of strength. And while recognizing that the freedom to choose a Godly path is the essence of liberty, as a nation we cannot but hope that more of our citizens would, through prayer, come into a closer relationship with their Maker.
Ronald Reagan, Mar. 19, 1981, National Day of Prayer proclamation
Life Is Worship 