Tag Archives: Prayer
The Preacher’s Prayer
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this – always obey such an impulse. Where does it come from? It is the work of the Holy Spirit; it is a part of the meaning of ‘Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure’ (Phil 2:12-13). This often leads to some of the most remarkable experiences in the life of the minister. So never resist, never postpone it, never push it aside because you are busy. Give yourself to it, yield to it; and you will find not only that you have not been wasting time with respect to the matter with which you are dealing but that actually it has helped you greatly in that respect. You will experience an ease and a facility in understanding what you were reading, in thinking, in ordering matter for a sermon, in writing, in everything which is quite astonishing. Such a call to prayer must never be regarded as a distraction; always respond to it immediately, and thank God if it happens to you frequently.
Great Hymns of the Faith
Great hymns form footprints of past saints who have walked through the valleys and on the mountain-tops of the Christian life. They assure us of God’s grace and love. They aid us in verbalizing our praise, worship, and prayer.
The Greatest Need in Missions
The evangelization of the world depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Our greatest need — in spite of what we may imagine — is the need for the forgotten secret of prevailing, all-encompassing prayer.
The Father Must Be First and Everything
‘Hallowed be thy name.’ There is something here that strikes us at once. While we ordinarily bring our own needs to God in prayer before thinking of what belongs to God and His interests, the Master reverses the order. First Thy name, Thy kingdom, Thy will; then give us, lead us, deliver us. The lesson is of more importance than we think. In true worship the Father must be first and He must be everything. The sooner we learn to forget ourselves so that He may be glorified, the richer our own blessing in prayer will be. No one ever loses anything by sacrificing for the Father. This must influence all our prayer.
The Pastor’s Prayer
The axiom of a preacher’s career should be, ‘By the help of the great Pastor of the flock, I will be a pastor-preacher.’
The Envy of the World
It’s said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it’s certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial and helped them to achieve a society that, for all its imperfections, is still the envy of the world and the last, best hope of mankind.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Sep. 18, 1982, in a radio address to the nation
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