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The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer QUOTES

The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer QUOTES

1 " The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day—but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

2 " Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching in this with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth with confidence, to make known the mystery of the gospel . . . as I ought to speak (Ephesians 6:18-20). "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

3 " Because of hasty and superficial communion with God, the sense of sin becomes weak and there is no motive strong enough to help you to hate sin and flee from it. Nothing except secret, humble, constant fellowship with God can teach you as His child to hate sin as God hates it. Nothing but the close fellowship and unceasing power of the living Christ can make it possible for you to understand what sin is and to detest it. Without this deeper understanding of sin, we cannot truly appropriate the victory that Christ made possible for us. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

4 " Nothing can preserve you from carelessness or make it possible for you to persevere in living, powerful prayer, except daily close fellowship with Jesus our Lord. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

5 " each person must acknowledge the sins of which he himself is guilty. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

6 " So intimately is it bound up with the entire spiritual life that only "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

7 " In every prayer the triune God takes a part—the Father who hears, the Son in whose name we pray, and the Spirit who prays for us and in us. How important it is that we are in right relationship to the Holy Spirit and that we understand His work! "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

8 " The whole difficulty is that we wish to pray in the Spirit and at the same time walk after the flesh. This is impossible. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

9 " The Spirit must be honored not only as the author of a new life but also as the leader and director of our entire walk. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

10 " The Spirit must be honored not only as the author of a new life but also as the leader and director of our entire walk. Otherwise we are what the apostle calls ‘‘carnal’’ or fleshly. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

11 " If conscience is to do its work and the contrite heart is to feel its proper remorse, it is necessary for each individual to confess his sin by name. The confession must be intensely personal. In a meeting of ministers, probably no single sin should be acknowledged with deeper shame than the sin of prayerlessness. Each one of us needs to confess that we are guilty of this. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

12 " No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

13 " Nothing so reveals a defective spiritual life in a minister or a congregation as the lack of believing and unceasing prayer. Prayer is the pulse of the spiritual life. It is the great means by which ministers and laypeople alike receive the blessing and power of heaven. Persevering and believing prayer precludes a strong and abundant life. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

14 " Prayer is not merely coming to God to ask something of Him. It is, above all, fellowship with God and being brought under the power of His holiness and love, until He takes possession of us and stamps our entire nature with the lowliness of Christ, which is the secret of all true worship. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

15 " Prayer is indeed the very pulse of the spiritual life. It is the great means of bringing to a pastor and the people the blessing and power of heaven. Persevering and believing prayer means a strong and abundant spiritual life. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

16 " joy in prayer is sign of communion with God that shows that God is everything to them. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

17 " The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

18 " faith finds strength, not in the thought of what you will do, but in the changeless faithfulness and love of Christ, who once again helps and assures you that those who wait on Him shall not be ashamed. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer

19 " We cannot possibly be satisfied with anything less than to walk with God – each day, each hour, and each moment, in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit. "

― Andrew Murray , The Prayer Life [Annotated, Updated]: Persevering in Prayer