A few quotes that I hope you will find useful on this Monday. He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day. You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed He that is down …
J.C. Ryle on the parable of the Widow and the Judge (Luke 18:1-8): “Do we ever feel a secret inclination to hurry our prayers, or shorten our prayers, or become careless about our prayers, or omit our prayers altogether? Let us be sure, when we do, that it is a direct temptation from the devil. …
“Use prayer as a boring rod, and wells of living water will leap up from the bowels of the Word….Prayer will singularly assist you in the delivery of your sermon; in fact, nothing can so gloriously fit you to preach as descending flesh from the mount of communion with God to speak with men. None …
Below is a testimony given by Dr. Chuck Lawless, Dean, Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary during a chapel service last week. Dr. Lawless is a godly man, and I am thankful that I was able to learn from his life and teaching while a student at Southern. …
“Of course the preacher is above all others distinguised as a man of prayer. He prays as an ordinary Christian else he were a hypocrite. He prays more than ordinary Christians, else he were disqualified for the office which he has undertaken.” -C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures To My Students (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2008), 42.
“Preachers like Paul, who realize their own desperate need and the Spirit’s almighty power, will saturate their ministry of the Word with prayer–for their hearers, themselves, and each other–and will urgently seek the support of others’ prayers.” -Dennis E. Johnson, Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ From All The Scriptures (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2007), 92.
A Minister’s Prayer O My LORD, Let not my ministry be approved only by men, or merely win the esteem and affections of people; But do the work of grace in their hearts, call in thy elect, seal and edify the regenerate ones, and command eternal blessings on their souls. Save me from self-opinion and …
In the midst of all of the controversy surrounding Rick Warren as the minister to deliver the invocation at yesterday’s presidential inauguration, Warren delivered a truly Christian prayer. I was so blessed to see a man of God stand before a mixed multitude and humbly pray to the God of his salvation, the only God…”Yeshua, …