Colossians 1:9 KJV "...For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding...."
"...He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays...." (John Owen, The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, Baker, 1977, p. 59).
What a Friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Ev'rything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Ev'rything to God in prayer.
Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged:
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
Can we find a friend so faithful,
Who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our ev'ry weakness—
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
Are we weak and heavy laden,
Cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Saviour, still our Refuge—
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In his arms he'll take and shield thee,
Thou wilt find a solace there. (TH, 533).
"..To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing..." (Martin Luther)
"..We are sometimes tempted to think that we get no good by our prayers, and that we may as well give them up altogether. Let us resist the temptation. It comes from the devil. Let us believe, and pray on. Against our besetting sins, against the spirit of the world, against the wiles of the devil, let us pray on, and not faint. For strength to do duty, for grace to bear our trials, for comfort in every trouble, let us continue in prayer. Let us be sure that no time is so well-spent in every day, as that which we spend upon our knees. Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away..." (J.C. Ryle, Commentary, Matthew 15).
"...In prayer we do not “prevail on” God, but rather prevail
on ourselves to submit to God. True, the language of “prevailing on God” is
often used in regard to prayer, but it is an accommodation to human weakness.
Even when Jacob “prevailed on God,” what really happened is that God prevailed
over him, bringing him to the point of surrender when he was able to receive the
blessing which God had all the time been longing to give Him..." (John
Stott, The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, IVP, 1978, p. 186).
1.) The Christian is all about prayer.
2.) The Christian does not cease to pray.
3.) The Christian is about wisdom and understanding, because of the Spirit of Wisdom.
4.) The Christian's mission is about humility.
5.) The Christian's pursuit is about prayer.
6.) The Christian's love is about Jesus.
7.) The Christian's passion is about holiness.
8.) The Christian does not go to a something to get things, but a life dedicated to Christian prayer that is about a life modeled after Jesus Christ.
9.) The Christian does not get things through advancing through fornication, but through Christian prayer at God's timing.
10.) Bring all things to a holy Triune God alone, because fallen man does not care about the things of God.
11.) The Christian ought to pray for his enemies.
12.) The Christian ought to pray for kings and rulers.
13.) The Christian must pray for Bible-post miracles that do not add to Scripture, but adds to the contentment of the Written Word alone.
14.) The Christian must pray like Bible reading.
15.) The Christian must pray like hymn singing.
16.) The life of a Christian is about wisdom.
17.) The life of a Christian is about understanding.
18.) We must offer prayer unto God alone.
19.) Prayer must not be unto any other, because prayer is worship.
20.) Angels should never be worshiped through prayer, but God alone should be our object.
21.) Saints should never be directed prayer, because they are not by nature eternally self-existent.
22.) God respects the prayers of His people in Christ, because He moves them by His Spirit.
23.) God hearkens unto the cry and prayer of His people, because of His favor upon them.
24.) The slave of God prays before God.
25.) Offer all prayer to God alone.
26.) Pray for all people.
27.) Pray for the plague of man's heart.
28.) Pray is spreading our hands toward heaven.
29.) God hears in heaven where His throne is, but He is everywhere.
30.) God maintains their cause but His people must pray, because it is about coming to a Sovereign Creator and Redeemer.
31.) God maintains their cause, because He chose His people before earthly time began.
32.) Pray with bended knee to God alone.
33.) Pray to God with outstretched arms to God alone, but no other because we worship Him.
34.) God's people ought to pray for the pre-converted elect that they may come to faith and repentance, but justice for the final and full reprobates according to God's Word.
35.) There is a civil prayer of the reprobates
that God uses for judgment or mercy.
36.) The pre-converted elect sinner will respond
in true faith and repentance from a holy Triune God.
37.) It is good to pray standing before a holy
God.
38.) It is good to pray sitting before a holy
God.
39.) It is good to pray kneeling before a holy
God.
40.) It is good to walk and pray to a holy God.
41.) It is possible to do anything and pray to
God.
42.) There should be “all I can” prayer before
God.
43.) No one has a perfect prayer life.
44.) Christian prayer is a precious gift from
God.
45.) The prayer of Satan is “turn me over!” about himself to a holy God.
46.) The elect angels never cease praising God.
47.) Saints should always seek to worship God.
48.) The greatest gift is to worship a holy God.
49.) Mediate on the written Word and pray it
back to God, but if this is hard just remember the Lord’s Prayer as an example to
bring basic things to God.
50.) Pray for the smallest of all details before
God.
51.) Pray for the greatest of all details before
God.
52.) The Father communions to the Son, and the
Son to the Father and the Spirit to the Father and Son.
53.) There should always be a choice to pray.
54.) Prayer that is not to the Triune God of
Reformed Theology is like prayer intercepted by Satan.
55.) We should pray for the unborn children and
mothers and fathers, because this is the Christian family.
56.) The Spirit of God is there to help prayer.
57.) The Spirit of God does not approve of
Muslim prayer.
58.) The Spirit of God does not approve of
Scientology.
59.) The Spirit of God does not approve of
Jehovah’s Witnesses.
60.) The Spirit of God does not approve of
Mormonism.
61.) The Spirit of God does not approve of
Romanism.
62.) The Spirit of God does not approve of
Eastern religion or occultic Satanism.
63.) Cry out to the Triune God for spiritual
salvation.
64.) Cry out to the Triune God for Christian
living.
65.) There is patience and prayer.
66.) There is humility and prayer.
67.) There is mourning and prayer.
68.) There is love and prayer.
69.) There is the excellence of the Valley
of Vision.
70.) There is the honor of Jesus in prayer.
71.) There is sin in prayer, but it must be
repented of.
72.) We should always pray through Christ
crucified.
73.) Prayer is the design of the Father.
74.) Prayer is the work of the Son.
75.) Prayer is the application of grace by the
Spirit.
76.) Prayer is pursuit of worship of God.
77.) Prayer is a pathway to overall healing.
78.) There is should be a sweet hour of prayer.
79.) Every excommunicated should have a prayer
of confessional repentance before a holy Triune God.
80.) Those who are of the pre-converted elect
need patience by all to come to where the Father has designed the quickening of
the Spirit through the Son.
81.) Those who come to faith must begin
confessional repentance: namely, locate sin and bring it to Jesus, but leave no
stone unturned because the honor of Jesus is at stake in all things.
82.) A prayer of repentance without redeeming
the time is an empty life of nothing but fruitlessness.
83.) God is aware of everything you have done,
but because you are in His presence it should motivate meticulous and detailed
repentance even starting at conception to the very end of life.
84.) We are called to repent over all things in
a ceaseless repentance until death.
85.) There is no repentance in the glory of
heaven that is the glory of the eternal God-man.
86.) There is no repentance in hell that is
authentic repentance but merely the repentance of Esau.
87.) There was a most happy time in the worst
and problematic health problems when I was on my knees three separate hours a
day before God.
88.) It is possible to pray before the meal,
during the meal or after the meal.
89.) I pray after tribulation because I thank
God that He has brought me through the storm for His plan-furthered glory.
90.) There is a prayer of precaution for everything
regarding pain that God hears.
91.) Prayer is about thinking about the holiness
of God.
92.) Prayer is about thinking about the Bible.
93.) Prayer is about counting God-based
blessings.
94.) Prayer is about thanking God for
correction.
95.) It is good to pray in any language before
God.
96.) Have you seen the prayers of reprobates in
the Genesis Flood? God allowed and
caused them all to perish!
97.) In cosmic basketball, let’s pray Jesus
shoots all the time, because no one is trustworthy to pass to anymore.
98.) Imagine the prayers of Noah and his family
in the Ark
during the global flood? It was prayer
of praises and protection!
99.) During a storm Jesus is there providing
transcendent peace in the midst of doubt.
100.) It is best to express to God all your pain
in prayer of the past, because Jesus is familiar with our deepest pain.
Great King of nations, hear our prayer,
While at thy feet we fall,
And humbly, with united cry,
To thee for mercy call.
The guilt is ours, but grace is thine,
O turn us not away;
But hear us from thy lofty throne,
And help us when we pray.
Our fathers' sins were manifold,
And ours no less we own,
Yet wondrously from age to age
Thy goodness hath been shown.
When dangers, like a stormy sea,
Beset our country round,
To thee we looked, to thee we cried,
And help in thee was found.
With one consent we meekly bow
Beneath thy chastening hand,
And, pouring forth confession meet,
Mourn with our mourning land.
With pitying eye behold our need,
As thus we lift our prayer;
Correct us with thy judgments, Lord,
Then let thy mercy spare. (TH, 621).
"...It is not merely the pleadings of patriarchs and prophets,
apostles and martyrs, men strong in faith giving glory to God. Neither is it
the prayers enshrined and intoned in imposing ritual, rising from the great
congregation amid ornate temples, and borne on the wings of enchanting music –
but the groan, the glance, the tear, the tremulous aspiration of smitten
penitents, the veriest lisping of infant tongues; the unlettered petitions
morning and evening of the cottage home, where the earthen floor is knelt upon,
where the only altar is the altar of the lowly heart, and the sacrifice that of
a broken and contrite spirit..." (John MacDuff , Clefts on the Rock
– The Believer’s Ground of Confidence in Christ, 1874).
My God, is any hour so sweet,
From blush of morn to evening star,
As that which calls me to thy feet,
The hour of prayer?
Then is my strength by thee renewed;
Then are my sins by thee forgiv'n;
Then dost thou cheer my solitude
With hope of heav'n.
No words can tell what sweet relief
There for my ev'ry want I find,
What strength for warfare, balm for grief,
What peace of mind!
Hushed is each doubt, gone ev'ry fear;
My spirit seems in heav'n to stay:
And e'en the penitential tear
Is wiped away.
Lord, till I reach yon blissful shore,
No privilege so dear shall be
As thus my inmost soul to pour
In prayer to thee. (TH, 529).
My God, is any hour so sweet,
From blush of morn to evening star,
As that which calls me to thy feet,
The hour of prayer?
Then is my strength by thee renewed;
Then are my sins by thee forgiv'n;
Then dost thou cheer my solitude
With hope of heav'n.
No words can tell what sweet relief
There for my ev'ry want I find,
What strength for warfare, balm for grief,
What peace of mind!
Hushed is each doubt, gone ev'ry fear;
My spirit seems in heav'n to stay:
And e'en the penitential tear
Is wiped away.
Lord, till I reach yon blissful shore,
No privilege so dear shall be
As thus my inmost soul to pour
In prayer to thee. (TH, 529).
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