God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.