Current Reading:

Effective prayer by J Oswald Sanders &
A Hunger for God, desiring God through Prayer and Fasting by John Piper

‘Satan dreads nothing but prayer,’ wrote Samuel Chadwick. “His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.”

Many a stubborn city has opened, many an intransigent heart has yielded, many a financial need has been supplied and many a delicate personal difficulty has been resolved by this means.

Unbelief has always shackled omnipotence. Faith releases its might. And faith is not credulity, it is confidence. It rests its weight on the divine warrant of the infallible Word. It joyously believes that to the God who ‘calls into existence the things that do not exist,’ nothing is impossible.

Oswald Sanders