The Voice of Praise

Solomon prevailed much with God in prayer at the dedication of the temple, but it was the voice of praise which brought down the glory that filled the house.

-- Dwight L. Moody

The Highway to Backsliding

To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding.
-- E.M. Bounds

To Pray in Faith

If you would pray in faith, be sure to walk every day with God. If you do, He will tell you what to pray for. Be filled with His spirit and He will give you objects enough to pray for. He will give you as much of the spirit of prayer as you have strength of body to bear.
--Charles G. Finney

A Continual Conversation

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

I do know this—God looks after me. My tranquility is so great that I fear nothing. What could I fear when I am with him? I cling to God with all my strength.

A brief lifting up of the heart is enough. Do this even when you're on the run because brief reflections on God, inner acts of adoration—short though these prayers may be—please God.
-- Brother Lawrence

Has God Changed?

When people hear about what God used to do, one of the things they say is: "Oh, that was a very long while ago."

Has God changed? Is He not an immutable God -- the same yesterday, today and forever? Does not that furnish an argument to prove that what God has done at one time He can do at another?

I think I may push it a little furether and say: What He has done once is a prophecy of what He intends to do again. Whatever God has done is to be looked upon as a precedent.

[Let us] with earnestness seek that God would restore to us the faith of the men of old, that we may richly enjoy His grace as in the days of old.
-- Charles Spurgeon, 1859