What obstacles, challenges, ongoing questions, and needs are you carrying to God in prayer? Sometimes we find ourselves dealing with a persistent problem, it is a problem that will only be solved by engaging in a season of prayer, not just offering up a request and moving on. In times like these we need prevailing prayer… prayer that overcomes. I’ve been doing some investigating in regards to what some of the spiritual giants from the past had to say about prevailing prayer. Here are some of my discoveries:
“Seek by prayer ‘to move the Arm that moves the world.’”
~ D.L. Moody, Prevailing Prayer
“Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.” ~ Charles Grandison Finney
“When we lean to our own understanding and do away with prayer, we will fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.” ~ Oswald Chambers
“Prayer turns ordinary mortals into people of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.” ~ Samuel Chadwick
I hope these words bring you inspiration. I hope they give you some direction as you seek to engage in a more effective prayer life. I hope they spur you on to keep prayer a priority in you life.
Kendall the Fire 