Intercessory Prayer Quotes:

In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

- Douglas V. Steere

topic: Prayer, Ends, Intercessory Prayer

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

- Charles Bent

topic: Prayer, Might, Knees, Intercessory Prayer

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

- Corrie Ten Boom

source: Corrie Ten Boom, Pam Rosewell Moore (2004). “Life Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom”

topic: Prayer, People, Christian Inspirational, Intercessory Prayer, Prayers Not Being Answered

Intercession is the truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer: no continent, no nation, no city, no organization, no office. No power on earth can keep intercession out.

- Richard Halverson

source: "No Greater Power: Perspective for Days of Pressure".

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Religious, Intercessory Prayer, Intercession

The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.

- Oswald Chambers

source: Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.354, Discovery House

topic: Prayer, Real, Soul, Intercessory Prayer

God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Prayer, Opportunity, People, Instruments Of God, God Has A Plan

The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.

- John Mott

source: John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

topic: Christian, Prayer, Giving, Intercessory Prayer, Christian Prayer

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?

- John Henry Jowett

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Fighting, Intercessory Prayer, Prevailing Prayer

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

- William Cowper

source: William Cowper, “Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer”

topic: Prayer, Knees, Saint, Inspirational Prayer, Intercessory Prayer

All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.

- R. A. Torrey

source: "The Power of Prayer".

topic: Prayer, Intercessory Prayer, Prevailing Prayer, Answers To Prayer

Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

- Charles Spurgeon

source: Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.152, Discovery House

topic: Intercessory Prayer

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

- Martin Luther

source: Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.155

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Believe, Intercessory Prayer, Powerful Prayer

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Peter Frick (2010). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer”, p.17, Liturgical Press

topic: Prayer, Community, Baths, Purifying, Intercessory Prayer

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

- Charles Spurgeon

source: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Men of the Old Testament”

topic: Intercessory Prayer

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

source: Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

topic: Prayer, Men, Done, Prayer Changes Things, Seeking God

Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

- Paul the Apostle

topic: Thanksgiving, Christian, Kings, Intercessory Prayer, Supplication

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Prayer, Names, Asking, Intercessory Prayer, Prevailing Prayer

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

source: Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

topic: Morning, Effort, Lasts, Prayer Changes Things, Last Place

God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].

- Thomas Brooks

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Hearing, Intercessory Prayer, Intercession

The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.

- David A. Bednar

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Real, Intercessory Prayer, Crucifixion

Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Prayer, Men, Giving, Intercessory Prayer, Intercessors

Someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President. And I had to say, "Yes, I am. I've felt it. I believe in intercessory prayer." But I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question that - or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

topic: Prayer, Believe, People, Intercessory Prayer

How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb.

- Basilea Schlink

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Heart, Old Self, Intercessory Prayer

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

- Muhammad Ali Jinnah

topic: Pakistan, Earth, Influence And Power, Intercessory Prayer, Quaid

One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it is the prayer of intercession. Let us peer for a moment into the heart of Saint Paul, to see what his prayer was like. It was full of people: "...I constantly pray with you in every one of my prayers for all of you... because I hold you in my heart" (Phil 1:4, 7). Here we see that intercessory prayer does not divert us from true contemplation, since authentic contemplation always has a place for others.

- Pope Francis

topic: Prayer, Moving, Heart, Intercessory Prayer, Saint Paul

My relationship with God through Christ has given me meaning and direction. My faith has made a big difference in my personal life, and my public life as well. I make personal decisions every day. Some are easy, and some aren't so easy. I have worries just like you do. And I pray. I pray for guidance. I pray for patience. I firmly believe in the power of intercessory prayer; and I know that I could not do my job without it.

- George W. Bush

topic: Jobs, Prayer, Believe, Intercessory Prayer, Personal Decisions

Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

- Alexander Whyte

source: Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.119, Regent College Publishing

topic: Prayer, Impossible, Kind, Intercessory Prayer

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

- S. D Gordon

topic: Prayer, Purpose, Doe, Intercessory Prayer, Intercessors

The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.

- John Mott

topic: Prayer, College, Men, Intercessory Prayer, Prevailing Prayer

If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

- Arthur Tappan Pierson

topic: Self, Giving, Together, Inspirational Missionary, Missionary Life

For adversities must of necessity come. They are part of the pattern of life's pilgrimage for every individual; and who can escape them? But I say unto thee, that for those who walk in Me, and for those who are encircled by the intercessory prayers of My children, I shall make of the suffering, yea, shall make of the trials a stepping stone to future blessing.

- Frances J Roberts

source: Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”

topic: Prayer, Children, Adversity, Intercessory Prayer

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

- Isak Dinesen

source: Isak Dinesen (1952). “Out of Africa”

topic: Bless, Thee, Prevailing Prayer, Intercessory Prayer