Quiet Talks on Prayer
Everybody wants to pray with power—but how? Find out in the classic volume Quiet Talks on Prayer, now updated and abridged for ease of reading. This early twentieth-century guide by S. D. Gordon explains the meaning and mission of prayer, hindrances to prayer, the “how to’s” of praying, and Jesus’ habits of prayer. Identifying prayer as the world’s greatest “outlet of power,” Gordon encourages a vibrant, two-way communication with the God who longs for communion with His people.
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Everybody wants
to pray with power—
but how do you do that?
Find out in the classic volume Quiet Talks on Prayer, now updated and abridged for ease of reading. This early twentieth-century guide by S. D. Gordon explains the meaning and mission of prayer, hindrances to prayer, the “how to’s” of praying, and Jesus’ habits of prayer.
Identifying prayer as the world’s greatest “outlet of power,” Quiet Talks on Prayer encourages a vibrant, two-way communication with the God who longs for communion with His people.
Top Highlights
“You can do more than pray, after you have prayed. But you can not do more than pray until you have prayed.” (source)
“There is one inlet of power in the life—the Holy Spirit. He is power.” (source)
“The enemy yields only what he must. He yields only what is taken, therefore the ground must be taken step by step. Prayer must be definite. He yields only when he must, therefore the prayer must be persistent. He continually renews his attacks, therefore the ground taken must be held against him in the Victor’s name. This helps to understand why prayer must be persisted in after we have full assurance of the result, and even after some immediate results have come, or after the general results have started coming.” (source)
“For every right and good thing we might ask for He has already planned to give us. But prayer does change the action of God because He cannot give against our wills, and our willingness as expressed by our asking gives Him the opportunity to do as He has already planned.” (source)
“there are things in us that break off connection with God” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Quiet Talks on Prayer
- Author: Gordon, S. D.
- Publisher: Barbour Books
- Publication Date: 2013
- ISBN: 9781624160820