It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.

Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.