The Power of Prayer

The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not!"

~ J. Hudson Taylor

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray! I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor those who explain prayer; but I mean those who actually take the time to pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. That something else is important, very important and pressing, but still, less important and pressing than prayer. There are people who put prayer first, and group the other items in life's schedule around and after prayer. These are the people today who are doing the most for God in winning souls, in solving problems, in awakening churches, in supplying both men and money for mission posts, in keeping fresh and strong their lives far off in sacrificial service on the foreign field, where the thickest fighting is going on, and in keeping the old earth sweet a little while longer.

~ S.D. Gordon

Only He Himself Mattered

I had utterly abandoned myself to Him.
Could any choice be as wonderful as His will?
Could any place be safer than the center of His will?
Did not He assure me by His very presence that His thoughts toward us are good, and not evil?
Death to my own plans and desires was almost deliriously delightful.
Everything was laid at His nail-scarred feet, life or death, health or illness, appreciation by others or misunderstanding, success or failure as measured by human standards.

Only He Himself mattered.

~ Victor R. Edman

Worship

Worship is the occupation of the heart, not with its needs, or even with its blessings, but with God Himself. It is the outpouring of a soul at rest in the presence of God.

~ A.P. Gibbs

Father, please grant me a heart filled with unwavering faith in Your greatness and goodness.
A heart that is completely yielded to You..a heart that is always yearning to worship You in spirit and in truth.

My greatest inheritance - heaven and its glory.
My greatest victory - over death through Christ.
My greatest neglect - so great a salvation.
My greatest crime - to reject Christ.
My greatest bargain - to lose all to win Christ.
My greatest profit - godliness now and forever.
My greatest peace - passes all understanding.
My greatest knowledge - to know God and Christ.

A soulwinner is a nobody who is seeking to tell everybody about Somebody who has the power to change anybody.

- Michael Gott

Are you able?

Able to suffer without complaining,
To be misunderstood without explaining?
Able to endure without breaking,
To be forsaken without forsaking?
Able to give without receiving,
Able to ask without commanding,
To love despite misunderstanding?
Able to turn to the Lord for guarding;
Able to wait for His own rewarding?

~ Mildred White Stouven

Born for God

I am born for God only.
Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him.
Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want -- a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary.

~ Henry Martyn

What is Joy?

Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God Himself..rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.

~ Amy Carmichael