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Truly he who prays puts, not God, but his own spiritual life to the test!.

To pray in His name is to pray in His character, as His representative sent by Him: it is to pray by His Spirit and according to His will.Thus our Lord gives us power of attorney over His kingdom, the kingdom of heaven, if only we fulfill the condition of abiding in Him.There is nothing the devil dreads so much as prayer?.The man who tries to pray quickly discovers just where he stands in God’s sight. There is no greater test to spirituality than prayer.The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer.The oil of the Holy Spirit will never cease to flow so long as there are empty vessels to receive it.The most amazing feature of that life as it is looked back upon will be its prayerlessness.The more we have of God’s glory, the less shall we seek His gifts.The Lord Jesus makes intercession for us (Hebrews 7:25), and God cannot say Him Nay.The greatest thing we can do for God or for man is to pray.Sometimes He delays so that greater glory may be brought to Himself.Satan’s chief way of hindering us is to try to fill our minds with the thought of our needs, so that they shall not be occupied with thoughts of God, our loving Father, to Whom we pray.Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.Real faith not only believes that God can, but that He does answer prayer.Prayer, real prayer, is the noblest, the sublimest, the most stupendous act that any creature of God can perform.That is what men mean when they talk about praying through.

Prayer meets with obstacles, which must be prayed away.

Prayer is the key, and faith both turns the key and opens the door, and claims the blessing.

Prayer is not given us as a burden to be borne, or an irksome duty to fulfill, but to be a joy and power to which there is no limit.

Prayer is measured, not by time, but by intensity.

Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God for things agreeable to His will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins and thankful acknowledgment of His mercies.

Is an invitation to be accepted rather than a command to be obeyed.

Praise and thanksgiving not only open the gates of heaven for me to approach God, but also prepare a way for God to bless me.

Our spirituality and our fruitfulness are always in proportion to the reality of our prayers.

Be ye holy! for without holiness no man can see God, and prayer cannot be efficacious.

Our Savior’s call to prayer is simply a clarion call to holiness.

One sin allowed in the life wrecks at once our usefulness and our joy, and robs prayer of its power.