Transforming Prayer - Quote 14 of 15

Young Christians must learn to pray in community with mature believers. Prayer is vital for transformation, and corporate prayer is indispensable as a part of the process.

Where is your confidence?

If you place your confidence in your own righteousness you have to convince yourself you're a law keeper even when it's clear you're not. -- PaulTripp (@PaulTripp)

Transforming Prayer - Quote 13 of 15

Scottish writer Robert Law said, “Prayer is a mighty instrument, not for getting man’s will done in heaven, but for getting God’s will done on earth.”

Transforming Prayer - Quote 12 of 15

Spending quality time with an opened Bible, delighting in the names and character of God, is the most important engagement in our lives and the vital starting point of prayer.

Transforming Prayer - Quote 11 of 15

Graciously, the Lord has taught me that the only enduring motive for prayer is that God is worthy to be sought.

Transforming Prayer - Quote 10 of 15

“There is a difference between seeking revival from God and seeking God for revival.”

Transforming Prayer - Quote 9 of 15

John Piper describes it well: “The number one reason why prayer malfunctions in the hands of believers is that they try to turn a wartime walkie-talkie into a domestic intercom. Until you believe that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for. Prayer is for the accomplishment of a wartime mission.”

Transforming Prayer - Quote 8 of 15

Samuel Chadwick wrote, “To pray in the Name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose mind is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.”

Transforming Prayer - Quote 7 of 15

We’ve seen that prayer is best experienced with an open Bible. We read the biblical text, looking for great truths about God. These truths fuel our worship as we engage in prayer and song, in reverence for His name, character, and works. Our meditation and application of these truths becomes powerful as we open our hearts to the Spirit. These are the essentials of transformation.

Transforming Prayer - Quote 6 of 15

I have seen that those whose prayers are most saturated with Scripture are generally most fervent and most effective in prayer. And where the mind isn’t brimming with the Bible, the heart is not generally brimming with prayer.”

Transforming Prayer - Quote 5

many of us fail to focus our prayers on the core motive: that God would be magnified in everything we seek or say. If we were to be honest, our prayers are often motivated by a desire for comfort andconvenience.

Transforming Prayer - Quote 4

Perhaps the fundamental difference between our prayer lists and the prayer concerns we find in the Bible is that we pray about personal problems, while most of the biblical prayers focus on Christ’s purposes.

Transforming Prayer - Quote 3

We spend more prayer energy trying to keep sick Christians out of heaven than trying to keep lost people out of hell. JAMES WALKER

Transforming Prayer - Quote 2

Here is the 2nd Quote in the series from the Transforming Prayer book:

David Butts, chairperson of America’s National Prayer Committee, says, “The reason most people do not attend prayer meetings at their church is that they have been to prayer meetings at their church.”

Transforming Prayer

Hi folks,

yes, yes,  I know you haven't heard from me for a while, however, I thought I would share some quotes from one of the books I have read already on my new kindle.  

As an aside, I would recommend getting a kindle as it certainly makes for easier reading and you get lots of free Christian books if you know how to look for them, for example, Jerry Bridges' The Transforming Power Of The Gospel was free for about 1 day this week and is now back to £6.  If anyone is interested in being kept up to date with Kindle freebies then drop in a comment and I will try to keep you all up to date with the good ones.

Anyway on to the Quotes from a recent book (another freebie) "Transforming Prayer"

All true prayer Exists for the glory of God And is Based in the worship of God Focused on the face of God Shaped by the Word of God Inspired by the Spirit of God Offered through the Son of God Aimed for the Will of God Experienced by true children of God