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.

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

Other things being equal, your growth and mine into the likeness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be in exact proportion to the time and to the heart we put into prayer. Please note exactly what I say: your growth and mine into the likeness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be in exact proportion to the time and to the heart we put

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

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

These seven words in James 4:2 contain the answer to the poverty and powerlessness of the average Christian, of the average minister, and of the average church. “Why is it,” many Christians are asking, “that I make such poor progress in my Christian life? Why do I have so little victory over sin? Why do I win so few souls to Christ? Why do I grow

“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.

“I am trying to serve God in my poor, weak way.” Well, if you are trying to serve God in your poor, weak way, quit it; your duty is to serve God in His strong, triumphant way. But you say, “I have no natural ability.” Then get a supernatural ability. The religion of Jesus Christ is a supernatural religion from start to finish, and we should live