Digital Logos Edition
Everyone needs to read a fresh, stimulating book on prayer. Here is one. This book will give you more than an analysis of prayer; it will give you the stimulus to pray. The disciples asked the Lord, “Teach us to pray,” not “Teach us how to pray.” Perhaps we need both. These chapters are strong, sometimes “heavy,” but don’t you think that we need drastic measures to correct our prayerlessness?
“Prayer, to him, was not an optional thing; it was an obligation, because there was no other way that God had committed Himself to loose His wisdom and power among men but by prayer. Since God had held before man the unlimited power through prayer, it means that correspondingly, He had voluntarily limited Himself to move through that channel. So, God was saying literally to people, ‘Unless you believe in My omnipotence to bless you through prayer, you will find that in all your wishes and all of your striving, My hands are tied behind My back to help you.’” (Page 69)
“Prayer is the one means by which God has set in motion a principle higher than all other principles; a law higher than all other laws. The man who intercedes and cries unto God is capable of superseding or abrogating every other law in the physical, mental or spiritual realm.” (Page 25)
“He lets the Holy Spirit begin to make that intercession for you. If you sense that, when you pray, pray by the Holy Spirit; when you speak in tongues, you speak in tongues by the Holy Spirit; when you work miracles, you work miracles by the Holy Spirit. If you are going to intercede, intercede by the Holy Spirit, praying in the Spirit at all times. Learn how to do this in the Spirit.” (Page 24)
“I intend for this next year to be the most joyful year that I have ever lived. Not a joy that distracts me from what I should be doing, but a joy that will be complete fulfillment, an absolute feeling of oneness with God and moving in His perfect will. While you are travailing, believe for the objectives that God sets before you.” (Page 64)