Preaching affects men. Prayer affects God. Preaching affects time. Prayer affects eternity. The pulpit can be a shop window to display our talents. The prayer closet speaks death to display.
We have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.
A sermon born in the head reaches the head. A sermon born in the heart reaches the heart.
Victory is not won in the pulpit by firing intellectual bullets or wisecracks, but in the prayer closet. It is won or lost before the preacher’s foot enters the pulpit.
We may preach and perish, but we cannot pray and perish.
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing. The people who are not praying are straying.
We have many organisers, but few agonisers. We have many players, but few pray-ers. We have many singers, but few clingers, many fears, few tears, much fashion, little passion, many interferers, few intercessors, many writers but few fighters.
Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound.
Prayer is to the believer what capital is to the business man.
Can you deny that in the modern church setup a main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our accent is on paying, theirs on praying. When we have paid the place is taken. When they had prayed the place was shaken!
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