“Think what it would mean to have every word that passes our lips winged and blessed with prayer—always to breathe a little prayer before we speak, as we speak. This would put heavenly sweetness into all our speech! It would make all our words kindly, loving, inspiring words—words that would edify and minister grace to those who hear.”
“Think of a woman amid her household cares—taking everything to God for His blessing, for His approval, for His direction. These are not by any means impossible suppositions. Indeed, this is the way a Christian is to live, should always live—doing all in the name of the Lord Jesus!”
Category Archives: Prayer
On Who We are Before God -R.Murray M’Cheyne
“What a man is on his knees before God,
that he is
-and nothing more.”
Robert Murray M’Cheyne
On Meeting God in the Domestic Tasks -A.W. Pink
“Intimate fellowship with God can be enjoyed not only by one in the cloister but by the housewife while engaged in her domestic tasks and by her husband as he works for his daily bread. God graciously communes with each of His people while they are about their secular duties as there are discharged in obedience to Him.”
A.W. Pink, Gleanings from Paul: The Prayers of the Apostle (p.313)
On Thanking God for Unanswered Prayers -D.Wilson
“Be sure to set aside time in your life to thank God for the unspeakable grace that He shows in not granting all your prayers.” D. Wilson
On Understanding Hard Passages in the Word -Spurgeon
“I have always found that the meaning of a text can be better learned by prayer than in any other way.”
C.H. Spurgeon
On Praying God’s Word -Bonhoeffer
“The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer,
not the poverty of our heart.”
Bonhoeffer
On Praying Aright -Bonhoeffer
“If we are to pray aright; perhaps it is necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.” Bonhoeffer
On Praying the Psalms -Bonhoeffer
“If we want to read and pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms,
we must not ask first what they have to do with us,
but what they have to do Jesus Christ.”
Bonhoeffer
On Fighting Fear through Prayer -John Flavel-
“Pour out to God in prayer those fears which the devil and your own unbelief pour in upon you in times of danger. Prayer is the best outlet to fear.”
John Flavel, Keeping the Heart
On Having Time to Do the Will of God -Elisabeth Elliot-
“There is always enough time to do the will of God. For that we can never say, “I don’t have time.” When we find ourselves frantic and frustrated, harried and harassed and “hassled,” it is a sign that we are running on our own schedule, not on God’s”
“My times are in thy hand…” has become a part of my life. When the Lord has left me in agony of waiting over some decision, these words have put me a rest. His timing is always perfect, though it seldom seems to me, for my temperament longs for previews of coming attractions.”
“Time management…begins for the Christian with time set aside for God. Other things cannot fall into a peaceful order if this is omitted.”
Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
