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Saturday, December 3, 2022

Top 50 Most Powerful Prayer Quotes In Church History






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There were many people in church history who really knows how to pray in their prayers that would really move God to perform mira
cles in their spiritual journey.  All their experiences have became a blessing to many Christians in our decade.The following 50 prayer quotes are the most popular in the internet and we really need to play attention to what these servants of God have taught us about the secret of prayer. Let's take a look together.


1. "You can do more than pray after you have prayed; but you can never do more 
      than pray until you have prayed."  A.J. Gordon

2. "God does nothing except in response to believing prayer."  John Wesley 
      (Famous evangelist who spent 2 hours daily in prayer)   

3. "Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces."  
     S.D. Gordon

4. "One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer." 

5. "The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray." S.D. Gordon

6. "If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory 
    through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending 
    three hours daily in prayer.  Martin Luther

7. "The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray." Chuck Smith

8. "Prayer does not change the purpose of God.  But prayer does change the 
     action of God." Chuck Smith 

9. "Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, 
     despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers." Sidlow Baxter

10. “God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the 
       better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil …” E.M. Bounds

11.  “Prayer is where the action is." John Wesley

12.  "Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep 
        them from praying. Paul E. Billheimer

13. "0h brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect 
       friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - 
       and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must      
       pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins 
       slumber." Andrew A. Bonar

14. "Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep 
       it. A man is powerful on his knees." Corrie ten Boom

15. "Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater 
       still." E.M. Bounds

16. "The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on 
       their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and 
       freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway 
       seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in 
      the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day." E.M. Bounds

17. "God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men 
       are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans." 
       E.M. Bounds

18. "The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see 
      mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, 
      failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto 
      me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou 
      knowest not!'" (J. Hudson Taylor) 

19.  "No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no  
       diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack." E.M. Bounds

20. "The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to 
      it."  E.M. Bounds

21. Prayer "is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings." 
      Chrysostom 

22.  "Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into
        active aid."  E.M. Bounds 

23. Prayer should not be regarded "as a duty which must be performed, but rather 
      as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new 
      beauty."  E.M. Bounds 

24.  "I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at 
       some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, 
       probably the least I would have devised, it came."  Adoniram Judson 

25. "Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel 
       our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so
       bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our 
       own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in 
       which we can express our love for them." John Calvin 


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26. "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."  
       Oswald Chambers 

27. "Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian." 
       Andrew Murray

28.  "The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts,
       and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can 
       be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline." Oswald Chambers

29. "Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all 
       straits by which God's saints have been held."  E. M. Bounds

30. "A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life." 
       E. M. Bounds 

31. "We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us
       with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down 
       to earth." Andrew Murray

32. "...[the] power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God 
       by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He 
       who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his 
       disposal." Charles H. Spurgeon

33. "Prayer is a spiritual law which cooperates with the mind of God. It has more in
       it than merely petition. It clothes itself in reality and power, with the force of 
       God Himself. It is an attitude of spirit and mind. Language is secondary in true 
       prayer." Gossner.

34. “What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new 
       organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can 
       use— men of prayer, men mighty in prayer"  E.M. Bounds

35. "Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work."
        Oswald Chambers.

36. "It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue
       for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly, continue in  prayer until 
       we obtain an answer;  George Müller

37. “Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace 
       that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.”
         R. A. Torrey 

38. “Prayer can never be in excess.” C. H. Spurgeon

39. “The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says ‘Amen’ and runs 
       away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more  
       important than giving Him our ideas.” Frank Laubach

40. "Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone 
       gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to 
       do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work as God's messengers be 
       intercession; in it we secure the presence and power of God to go with 
       us." Andrew Murray

41.Yes, worship of the loving God is man’s whole reason for existence.” 
       A.W. Tozer

42. “The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and 
        satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may 
        delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very 
        God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.”  A.W. Tozer 

43. "Prayer is the secret of power."  Evan Roberts

44. "Since the days of Pentecost, has the whole church ever put aside every other
       work and waited upon Him for ten days, that the Spirit’s power might be 
       manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and 
       resources, and too little to the source of power."  Hudson Taylor

45. "Where there is no vision of eternity, there is no prayer for the perishing." 
       David Smithers

46. "Prayer is buried, and lost and Heaven weeps.  If all prayed the wicked would 
       flee from our midst or to the refuge." Evan Roberts

47. "Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a   
       dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees."  Leonard Ravenhill

48. He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the 
      day. John Bunyan
 
49. "Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a 
       minister. Pray, then my dear brother; pray, pray, pray."  Edward Payson

50. "Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. 
       Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His 
        redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect 
        great things!"  Andrew Murray




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Thursday, March 31, 2022

How To Pray With The Lord's Prayer

                                                                           


   

Learning how to pray with the Lord's prayer with Jesus instruction is one of the most important lesson that we will receive from the bible about prayer. First of all, we need to take a look on this great prayer that Jesus taught us.

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your Kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours.
Now and for ever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)


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From this sample prayer , we can see the following instruction :


1. We are praying to our heaven Father whose name is Holy and worthy for our praise. That's why our prayer should start with praising God in our prayer , and not keep on asking God for this and that. When we start to pray, Jesus is saying that we need to focus on our heavenly Father but not focus on how we can solve our own problems. At the time, proclaim and mediate on the different names of God by praising His different Holy names will help us to remember who our God is. He is our provider, our healer , our Shepherd and our Almighty God as well. There are many names in the bible of God and all these names reflect on the different goodness and beauty of God Himself. When we praise His Holy name and mediate on who our God is, our problems becomes nothing or smaller in our mind.


2. We are praying for God's kingdom to come unto our life as it is in heaven. What is God's kingdom ? It simply means any place that God's rule has no obstacle in it and God's authority is moving in it's fullness in that area, and that's the kingdom of God. No wonder Jesus said God's kingdom is in our heart.That's why our prayer needs always invite God's will be done in every area of our life including our mind, our characters and every part of us ----- before we tell God about our problems.


3. We are praying for God's providence in our daily need. If you are worrying about your daily needs in your life regarding to finance, food, clothing, etc. That's when you should ask God for. No, not in the beginning of your prayer, not until you re-focus on God and who He is., not until you are inviting God's will be done in your life. It is only after you acknowledge God's authority in your life and have full access to every area of our life, then you can start to ask for your daily need and communicate to God about this practical issue. you can see what prayer is : First supernatural, then material or practical. This means that without first dealing with our Spiritual eyesight, we have no power and authority to deal  and overcome our physical needs with prayer. Since we tends to look at our problems and want to see it solve before we get to know that it is actually a relationship problem with our God ,so Jesus wants us to deal with this problem first before we can see our material or physical problems get solved.


4. We are praying for God' forgiveness and deal with our unforgiveness. Jesus is saying that we need to deal with our relationship with others to see if there is any unforgiveness that is still living in our heart. This is a self-examination moment that  we will make sure that we have no hatred and anger in our heart that the devils can use it as a weapon to attack us. As we proclaim forgiveness in our prayer time and declare that we will forgive those who has hurt us. Our heavenly Father would forgive us our sin as he always will. When our relationship with others and God has been dealt with, then our prayer can surely get to God's throne without any obstacle.


5. We are praying for God's protection in our daily life that we will always follow His will. Since we are at war with Satan and we are in a spiritual warfare at all times, we need to ask God to help us to escape from temptation and overcome every step that will lead us go astray. We really need God to deliver us from evil in our daily living since the devil is just like an roaring lion who is seeking for somebody to eat. We can't win this war without prayer and the power of God.


6. We are praying that God's realm is among us from now and forever. We don't just pray for what is happening on earth but always remember that our God is the ruler at all times and He will get the final victory at the end since Jesus has already won the battle on the cross.


Conclusion
With such a good model of prayer from our Lord Jesus, we can start to pray to our heavenly Father with power and authority. Prayer like this will be surely be answer by God and will always please Him in this divine communication process. The victory are always belong to God and His people and prayer according to God's will is the key. Amen.

Thank God for 2019 and getting ready to enter into 2020


Although I am going to say goodbye to 2019 soon and I want to write an article of my personal thanksgiving to all God's blessings to me for the whole year.before I will enter into 2020 with a new beginning. I will start by thank God for what he did to me in my life with 10 things in my life which has happened just one year ago.

1. I thank God for his preparation of an opportunity for me to attend a special convocation in USA and that was my first time to step inside America even I used to live in Canada for 11 years before. I haven't travel outside my own city (Hong Kong ) for the last 10 years already and that was the first trip after my long time stay in my city.

2. I thank God that I was able to go to Singapore to attend a healing seminar by Joan Hunter where I could update my healing prayer and enjoy an opportunity to serve the Lord duirng the seminar by praying for the sick.

3. I thank God that I could learn something about construction risk and how to avoid all the dangerous situation from a one day seminar in my own city.

4. I thank God that my health remains stable through the whole year and not much problem regarding to my health issue.

5. I thank God that I could attend a new church and particpate in its cell group in order to build up new relationship with other Christians whose from all walks of life and whose also from many other countries which including Hong Kong as well.

6. I thank God that I was able to minster to the poor and keep up my monthly visit to the homeless people on the street throughout the year. The most excited experience has been my last visit to a perosn who I have visited a few time before. For just a few days before I published this article, I was happy to see this homeless person has shown his willingness to accept The Lord Jesus as his own personal savior and the Lord of his life. To God be the glory.

7. I thank God that even I was experiencing many difficulties but God's grace has been sufficient for me throughout the year.

8. I thank God that I was still be able to show my little support to a ministry online in a regular basis througout the year.

9. I thank God that for using me to pray for the mother of one of my best friends whose in Canada by using Whatsapp almost everyday for about two months before her mom went to heaven with the Lord because of her terminal illness. I wasn't happy when I first started to pray fro her since I wasn't comfortable to pray for a sick elderly almost everyday in the beginning. However, After I look back for the whole situation, I thank God to allow me in participating in support of this family even I didn't see any healing this time. I think at least I can show this family that God really care about them and still care for the mom even when she was really sick at that moment. I thank God for teaching me how to love the elderly which was something I really need to learn for so many years.

10. I thank God for this excited year even I still need to face some of my problems  throughout the year. However, God's grace is sufficient to me an I am still alive and heading to another year of the Lord in 2020.

I praise God for all His wonder and blessings in 2018 and in 2019 and I am looking forward to experience God in a new way in 2020. Happy New year to My God and Happy New Year to all the readers of this article. God bless you all. 😃

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How to pray for people with upper back pain ?

                                                                   


Healing can be easy if you know how ? I thought that healing through prayer was really hard in my past Christian year. I thought that only the most anointed Christian or Christian with the gift of healing could do it. After I have really study on the subject and I found that healing isn't that hard and it can be really simple and fun as well. recently, I have encounter some kinds of great teaching from Joan Hunter, Randy Clark, Bill Johnson and David Herzog as well. Among all these great servants of God, I found that Joan Hunter has the highest success rate and it is a teaching that every Spirit-filled Christian can do it. I would say that Joan's model is purely a prayer model that everyone can see instant result in most of the times. However, the other great servants of God are still worthy for us to learn from them as they all have their special expertise in healing and creative miracles as well. I am going to share a simple prayer method on how to pray for people with upper back pain in the following and I hope it will bless those who wants to learn to pray with instant result. You will find that the power of the Holy Spirit is amazing.

 
1. Prepare to pray
Ask the the person who wants to receive prayer to stand straight and relax with his or eyes open. At the same time, tell the person not to pray when you are praying for him or her. It is actually hard to receive and while praying at the same time. Some people think that have their eyes close will be better and concentrated in prayer but it will also make that person can't see the miracle happen right before his or her own eyes as well. That's why, just tell the person to keep his or eyes open and see what God will do for him or her.
2. Time to pray
Ask the person to extend both of his or her arms out to measure which arms are shorter than the other one. (In most cases but nit all,one arm will be shorter than the other one in the case of  upper back pain ). Be sure to have a small space between two arms and usually 1mm to 2 mm will do . You just want to make sure that when you command the shorter arm to grow out without getting stuck by the other arms , that's all.


3. Lay hand to pray
Lay one of your hand on the base of the scull of the person and speak in a normal tone that "I command the base of the skull to line up with every vertebrates at this back." Then speak " I curse the pain to be gone while laying hand on the same position (or command the pain to be gone if you don't want to use the term curse). After that, you command the muscles on the neck and all the way to the upper back and the upper chest to be relax (if you feel the person is so tense. If not tense, you can just skip this step.). Last and the most fun part, you command the shorter arm to grow and go back to the proper position and be even with the other arm. That's it.


Conclusion
You will then see the arm just grow out in a few second (wait for a while and ask the person to open his or her eyes and watch what will happen ) until it gets even with the other arm. However, if the arm just growing back and forth , never mind about it. Since The Holy Spirit or maybe the angel is doing the adjustment for the arms, it may take a few seconds for the arms to get even. Just relax and the arms will eventually grow and back to its proper position and be even with the other arm. Just don't worry and watch how fun it is. Tell the person to thank Jesus right away and then start to check his or her own back to see the back is completely heal. If there are still some pain leave, just lay hand on the back and command the pain to be gone completely. Usually when the arms are getting even, there should be no more pain leave on that person's upper back. Be sure you will give all the glory to God and praise God for His healing power. Try it, it is fun and it will happen all the times when you pray according to all the steps.You can pray it to yourself as well whenever you experience upper back pain.God bless you

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Your pastoral team needs your prayer

It is a blessing to call by God to lead the church. However, it is never an easy job for being a pastor or any leadership position in the church. For when the church is called by God to preach the gospel to the whole world, Satanic attack and human conflicts cannot be avoid. When being asked by someone that whose the leader people need to spend more time to pray for ? I would definitely say that it should always be the senior pastor of the church. For when we look at the bible , we know that no authority is not given by God. As a senior pastor, he or she needs to always be alert for the sheep. No just that , the senior pastor also needs to know what is the vision that God wants the church to go along with. At the same time, the senior pastor is the one who will face the most criticism and expectation from the whole congregation. And of course the senior pastor is the one who Satan wants to attack the most. For if the senior pastor happen to fall down on any trap of sin or leave the church for whatever hurtful  reasons, the church will be suffering from their lack of leadership and clear direction from God as well. So, be sure to pray for your senior pastor everyday whether you like this leader or not. For he or she is the chosen one from God lead the flocks of the church. At the same time , never participate in any gossip and criticism towards the senior pastor as well. For that will save you from falling into the trap of Satan who wants to see your church falling apart and lack of unity each day and night. On the other hand, it is also important to pray for all the pastoral staffs each and everyday. Since they are also called by God to assist the senior pastor and work as a team to lead the church as well, harmony and unity of the pastoral team will always be important for any church growth.

Your deacons and elders need your prayer 

We don't want to minimize the importance of deacons and elders in our prayer. However, their roles and function are different according to the Bible. There are many denomination will exalt their deacons board or the elders board as the highest decision making body in the church. Although we don't want to argue with this phenomenon, we don respect that each person do have different role to play in the church. The unity of such a leadership team is also important for the church as well. That's why we surely need to pray for them as well. 


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How to pray for these leaders ?

I would suggest the following seven ways to pray for the pastoral team and the leadership team as well and you should never underestimate the power of prayer :  

1. Apply the blood of Jesus to the senior pastor daily and ask the Holy Spirit to fill he or she that this leader will live in holiness and receive the love, wisdom, power, authority and vision from God to lead the church .

2. Apply the blood of Jesus to the pastoral team that this team will always work in harmony and unity with love. And also ask God to give them a heart of submission and love to the senior pastor and help the senior pastor to carry out any decision that needs to be execute in the church.

3. Pray for all the deacons and all the elders to have a spirit of co-operation and unity to work with the pastoral team in building up the church as a whole.

4. Ask God to give each member of the church to be humble and submissive to the leadership team of the church.

5. Bind all the spirits of any destructive idea, hatred, unforgiveness, bitterness , dis-unity, temptation , rebellious and any demonic attempt in Jesus name and command all these spirits be gone from the church in a daily basis. Also declare all the destruction for any Satanic plan to be completely destroyed and leave the church forever in Jesus mighty name.

6. Ask the Lord to send His angles to protect the leadership team and their family members in a daily basis as well.

7. Ask the Holy Spirit to always raise up new leaders in the next generation of this church and also ask God to raise mighty intercessors who knows how to listen to God;s voice and how to pray for the church in a daily basis to arise in this church.

Conclusion

The church in the end time needs to be more alert on how to pray for their leadership. God places each of us in a church is not a coincidence. He has a plan for each of us , so don't just leave your church whenever you feel like it. Your leaders are all human and they are not perfect, that's why they need your prayer in order to build up the church according to God's will. Will you be a prayer warrior for your church leadership team or will you be an attacker to your church leaders when you don't feel satisfy with anything ? I pray that you will know what to choose. Amen.

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