Prevailing Prayer Quotes:

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

Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.

- Charles Grandison Finney

topic: Prayer, Offering, Quality, Prevailing Prayer, Saying A Prayer

Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won.

- Wesley L Duewel

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Victory, Opposing, Prevailing Prayer

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

- Oswald Chambers

source: Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.311, Discovery House

topic: Prayer, Understanding, Succeed, Our Prayers, Prayers Not Being Answered

Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.

- Arthur Wallis

source: Arthur Wallis (2010). “In the Day of Thy Power: The Spiritual Principles of Revival”, p.130, CLC Publications

topic: Prayer, Heart, People, Prevailing Prayer, Solicitude

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

- Samuel Chadwick

topic: Prayer, Rain, Men, Praying To God, Christian 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

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

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

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

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

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

All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

- Samuel Logan Brengle

source: Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Prayer, Men, Soul, Soul Winning, Precedence

It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.

- Vance Havner

topic: Prayer, Wrestling, Men, Prevailing Prayer

The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us away from our temporal pursuits to give ourselves for what really matters.Revival will not occur without prayer. Prevailing prayer is always antecedent to revival.

- David Shibley

topic: Prayer, Fire, Giving, Prevailing Prayer

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

You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

- John Mott

topic: Mean, Forget, Christianity, Prevailing Prayer

He must increase, but I must decrease.

- John the Baptist

topic: Christianity, Increase, Decrease, Glorifying God, Prevailing Prayer

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Bible, Submission To God, Temptation, Spiritual Warfare, Prowling

Give us this day our daily mask.

- Tom Stoppard

topic: Giving, Mask, This Day, Praying To God, Kingdom Come

Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Prayer, Philosophical, Eye, Chariots, Fiery