While apologetics is powerful and can penetrate the mind only prayer can open the heart. While, I believe, that my apologetic posts can strengthen the faith of Christians, they must be combined with believing and convicting prayer if we are to reach the non-believer with the life changing message of Jesus. While apologetics is logical, prayer is powerful and this combination of prayer and apologetics is sheer dynamite! All of the quotes below are designed to show you the importance and power of prayer.1 Always remember that prayer is the fuel that allows apologetics to ignite and illuminate the soul.
“Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.” ~ J. Sidlow Baxter
“When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.” ~ Corrie Ten Boom
“Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
“I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
“Don’t worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It’s not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.” ~ Max Lucado
“Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” ~ Corrie Ten Boom
“Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.” ~ David Jeremiah
“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
“The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.” ~ F.B. Meyer
“Pray, and let God worry.” ~ Martin Luther
“The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.” ~ Samuel Logan Brengle
“Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.” ~ Edward McKendree Bounds
“…True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
“Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.” ~ Edward McKendree Bounds
“Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.” ~ Edward McKendree Bounds
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” ~ Oswald Chambers
“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.” ~ Charles Stanley
“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.”” ~ Hudson Taylor
“To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.” ~ Billy Graham
“The secret of praying is praying in secret.” ~ Leonard Ravenhill
“When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.” ~ R. A. Torrey
“When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.” ~ A. C. Dixon
“Prayer is God’s ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.” ~ Wesley L Duewel
“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
1 All of these quotes are from the following website: https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/prayer.html