Some people fast to burn calories. Others fast to break chains. Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Andrew Murray put it like this, “Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the Invisible; fasting the other, with which we let loose and cast...
“We must not conceive of prayer as overcoming God’s reluctance, but as laying hold of His highest willingness.” ~Richard Trench Mr. Moody was once addressing a crowded meeting of children in Edinburgh. To get their attention, he began by asking a question that he was prepared to answer himself, “What is prayer?” Before he could...
“And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting” (Acts 2:2). “In the springtime of 1855, an Irish Presbyterian minister addressed the young men of his congregation in the village of Connor, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland, with the words, ‘Do...
“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” ~Romans 11:33 For man to fully understand God and all His dealings with us is an utter impossibility. While this is the case, we do not need to create difficulties where...
By Ernest M. Wadsworth “And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness…and with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon...
By Armin Gesswein (1907 – 2001) Prayer is the highest and holiest work, and yet it is the most neglected ministry on earth. For want of intercession, we are low on the mighty works of God. Our generation has yet to see prayer as a ministry, and to take God at His Word on this...