Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.