John G Lake on Praying for Revival

"Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.” - Exodus 14:15-16

God did not even say, you stretch out your hand, and I will divide the sea. But God said to Moses: “Stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it.” It was not an act for God to perform,but it was an act for Moses to believe for. The responsibility was not with God, it was with Moses. A weak Christianity is ever inclined to whine in prayer, while God waits for the believer to command it. In my judgment, that is the place of extreme weakness in Christian character. I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge, to dodge the action of faith".

John G Lake (HT: Cornel Marais) "Stop Praying for Revival!" - Charisma Ministries - April 10th 2010.

Jerry Bridges on Praying Our Needs to God

"Think now of what you feel your greatest needs are, both spiritually and temporally. As you bring those needs to God in prayer, which would you rather present to Him as a consideration for meeting those needs; your spiritual disciplines, your obedience and your sacrifice imperfect as they are; or the infinite and perfect merit of Jesus? To ask the question is to answer it - is it not?".

Jerry Bridges - "Transforming Grace - Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love" - Navpress (1991) - (p72).

Jerry Bridges on the Superabundance of God's Grace

"Because we do not comprehend the superabundance of God's grace and generosity, we ask Him for paltry blessings, the fifty-cent variety, when we could be drawing on the abundance of His riches".

Jerry Bridges - "Transforming Grace - Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love" - Navpress (1991) - (p58).

Terry Virgo on Effective Prayer

"Kings have power downward and priests have power upward prevailing with God. It is through our priestly prayer ministry that we reign with Christ. Without a powerful priestly ministry, ruling is mere ambition. The priority is to reach God, then people – not the reverse".

Terry Virgo - "What a Calvinist can learn from Finney" - Terry Virgo's Blog - Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 11:24 am.

Rob Rufus on Christianity in China

"The philosophy of the underground church in China for the past 45 years has been that everyday is a Sunday, every Christian is a preacher, and everywhere is a meeting".

Rob Rufus - "Prophetic Promises to Empower Prayer for China" - Let's Talk Magazine - NCMI - Issue 80 - (p28).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on a Period of Non-Revival

"Go on with all your activities, if you wish to do so. Go on with your work. I am not saying that you should stop all your efforts and just wait. No, go on, if you like, doing all that you are doing but I do say this - make certain that you leave time to pray for revival and to see that has more time than anything else".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Revival" - Crossway Books, Wheaton (1987) - (p210).

R T Kendall on God Hiding His Face

"If God is hiding His face from you and you don't know what to do, go and spend a whole day in prayer and fasting".

R T Kendall - "By Love Transformed - A Collection of 365 Life-Changing Daily Readings" - Charisma Publishing, Florida (2006) - (p15).

Rob Rufus on the Power of the Authoritative Command

"If you want to see a dramatic increase in miracles through your life, STOP doing what most of the Church is doing and praying for the sick and start releasing the power of authoritative healing commands. There is a place to pray for the sick but I can only find one verse in the whole Bible! Jesus didn't tell us to go into the world and ask Him to do what He told us to do".

Rob Rufus - "Power Of Authoratative Command For Healing - Part 1" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 10th September 2006

Don Carson on Freedom from Rules

Commenting on Philippians 1v9-10:

"Paul refuses to set up an arbitrary set of checkpoints against which Christians are to measure themselves; he refuses to erect hoops through which believers must jump. Rather, he simply prays to his heavenly Father and asks him that these believers may pursue what is best."

D A Carson - A Call to Spiritual Reformation - Baker - 1992
(Quoted by Terry Virgo - God's Lavish Grace - Monarch - 2004 - p136)

Rob Rufus on Prayer

"Prayer administrates the power of the finished work of the Cross into the nations".

Rob Rufus - "The Supernatural Operation of the Gifts of the Spirit - The Presence of the Glory" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 17th March 2007.

Rob Rufus on the meaning of "Amen"!

"The "Amen" is a Hebrew word - the highest level of a "yes" - and the "Amen" is spoken through us to the glory of God! So as God makes a promise and we say "yes!" we kiss and connect heaven and earth and the miraculous power breaks out".

Rob Rufus - "TOAM 06 - Session 1" - Together on a Mission, Brighton - July 2007 - from a Newfrontiers DVD.

A W Tozer on Worship and Prayer

"We should confess that in many "good" churches we let the women do the praying and let the men do the voting".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p18).

J I Packer on Prayer and Mortification

"The activity by which the Christian directly secures the mortification of his sins is prayer".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p263).

Derek Prince on Intercessors

"One man could have turned the tide for a whole nation. God is looking for a man!".

Derek Prince in "Praying for the Government" from "Vintage Years - Selected Articles from New Wine's First Decade: 1969-1979" - New Wine Publishers, Mobile, Alabama - (p46).

Derek Prince on Intercession

"When you seek God's face you do not stop until you get into God's Presence - even if it takes all night. There is a lot of praying that is not seeking God's face - it stops short of contact with God".

Derek Prince in "Praying for the Government" from "Vintage Years - Selected Articles from New Wine's First Decade: 1969-1979" - New Wine Publishers, Mobile, Alabama - (p35).

Derek Prince on Intercessors

"We are the people who are the defense of the country. We are the bullwark of any nation ... the righteous man can preserve a whole city".

Derek Prince in "Praying for the Government" from "Vintage Years - Selected Articles from New Wine's First Decade: 1969-1979" - New Wine Publishers, Mobile, Alabama - (p33).

Derek Prince on Prayer

"God desires the church to exert a controlling influence on the affairs of this world through prayer".

Derek Prince in "Praying for the Government" from "Vintage Years - Selected Articles from New Wine's First Decade: 1969-1979" - New Wine Publishers, Mobile, Alabama - (p31).