The Power of Prayer

But the day came when I realized what real prayer meant, realized that prayer was having an audience with God, actually coming into the presence of God and asking for and getting things from Him. And the realization of that fact transformed my prayer life. Before that, prayer had been a mere duty, and sometimes a very irksome duty. But from that ti

That is the kind of a revival I am longing to see here in our city; yes, throughout our whole land and even throughout the world. I do not mean a revival where there is great preaching and marvelous singing and all kinds of bewildering antics by preachers or singers, or skillful managers or manipulators; but a revival where there is mighty praying

“Brother Torrey, when we heard the things that were done in Australia and elsewhere, we were all surprised. We didn’t think it was in you.” He was perfectly right about that; it wasn’t in me. Then he added, “But when I went out and supplied your church for a month and heard your people pray for you, I understood.” Oh, any church can have a minister

We have already seen two immeasurably important things that prayer will accomplish: first, it will promote our own personal piety, our individual holiness, our individual growth into the likeness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; second, it will bring the power of God into our work.

Are you a mother or a father? Do you wish power from God to bring your own children up in the “nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4)? God commands you to do it, and He especially commands the father to do it.

“I am not a praying Christian; I am a working Christian.” But praying is working. It is the most effective work that anyone can do; that is, we can often bring more to pass by praying than we can by any other form of effort we might put forth.

These two things, prayer and study of the Word of God, always go hand in hand, for there is no true prayer without study of the Word of God, and there is no true study of the Word of God without prayer.

I do not suppose that God has called many of us, if any of us, to spend seven or eight hours a day in prayer, but I am confident God has called most of us, if not every one of us, to put more time into prayer than we now do. This is one of the great secrets of holiness; indeed, it is the only way in which we can become really holy and continue to b

It is there for you; but it is your part to claim it, to put out your hand and take it. God’s appointed way of claiming blessings, or putting out your hand and taking hold of the blessings that are procured for you by the atoning death of Jesus Christ, is by prayer. Prayer is the hand that takes to ourselves the blessings that God has already provi