The Ministry of Intercession: A Plea for More Prayer

“The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and Kingdom, for His will and honor, will be given the power to appropriate the promise. Anyone grasping the promise only when he wants something very special for himself will be disappointed, because he is making Jesus the servant of his own comfort. But whoever wants to pray the effective prayer of faith because he needs it for the work of the Master will learn it, because he has made himself the servant of his Lord's interests.””

— Andrew Murray

“Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.””

— Andrew Murray

“Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.””

— Andrew Murray

“It is not the law, and not the book, not the knowledge of what is right, that works obedience, but the personal influence of God and His living fellowship. And even so it is not the knowledge of what God has promised, but the presence of God Himself as the Promiser, that awakens faith and trust in prayer.””

— Andrew Murray

“Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.””

— Andrew Murray

“Precious lessons that Jesus has to teach us this day. We seek God's gifts: God wants to give us HIMSELF first. We think of prayer as the power to draw down good gifts from heaven; Jesus as the means to draw ourselves up to God.””

— Andrew Murray

“The entrance His words find with me, will be the measure of the power of any words with Him.””

— Andrew Murray

“If I bear the name of another, I have given up my own name and my own independent life.””

— Andrew Murray

“Prayer is not monologue but dialogue; God's voice in response to mine is its most essential part.””

— Andrew Murray