Prayer

Prayer IS the Power Source of the Church.  Without it we labor in vain and the results are of the flesh.  It is our desire to undergird the entire ministry of Gateway Church in prayer.  If you would like to join one of our prayer ministries please click on one of the links below:

 

II Chronicles 7:14  “If my people who are called by my name will humble
themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

 

Ephesians 3:14-19  “A Prayerful Man”

Body Part                  “P” Word                  2 Chronicles 7:14 Parallel
Knees                        Position                    Humble
Guts                           Power                     Prayer
Heart                           Purify                     Turn From Your Wicked Ways
Mind                           Ponder                     Seek My Face

 

When we work, we work…But when we pray…God works!  Let’s Pray!

Quotes on PRAYER:

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle.  There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.  ~Søren Kierkegaard

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.  ~Guy H. King

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.  ~William McGill

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.  ~Samuel M. Shoemaker

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.  ~Austin O'Malley

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.  ~Oswald Chambers

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.  ~Author Unknown

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.  ~Will Rogers

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.  ~John Bunyan

Prayer must never be answered:  if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.  ~Oscar Wilde

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.  ~Matthew Henry

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.  ~Abraham Lincoln

God speaks in the silence of the heart.  Listening is the beginning of prayer.  ~Mother Teresa

We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.  ~Margaret Gibb

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.  ~Ruth Graham

God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.  ~Author Unknown

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."  ~Alan Redpath

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.  ~E.M. Bounds

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.  ~Edwin Keith

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.  ~Philip James Bailey

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.  ~Corrie ten Boom

Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we aquire something of His likeness; and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace. - E M Bounds
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. -- Martin Luther
Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace. -- E. M. Bounds
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer. - E. M. Bounds
All that true prayer seeks is God Himself, for with Him we get all we need. - The Kneeling Christian
"Men ought always to pray, and not faint." - Bible, Luke 18:1
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held. -- E. M. Bounds
Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. - The Kneeling Christian
The only power that God will yield to is that of prayer. - Leonard Ravenhill
The secret of all failure is our failure in secret prayer. - The Kneeling Christian
Prayer is not given us as a burden to be borne or an irksome duty to fulfill, but to be a joy and power to which there is no limit. - The Kneeling Christian
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong. - E. M. Bounds
The Ministry of Prayer, if it be anything worthy of the Name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and His holiness. - E. M. Bounds
"O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth." -- Andrew Murray
"The secret of praying is praying in secret." -- Leonard Ravenhill