Mighty Power in Prayer

It is a collection of twelve of Charles Spurgeon's greatest sermons on prayer, gathered into one volume. No subject drew more of Spurgeon's fire than prayer, and these sermons — from the boldness of 'The Throne of Grace' to the holy argument of 'Order and Argument in Prayer' — press believers to pray with confidence, earnestness, and faith in a God who hears.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was the most famous English preacher of the nineteenth century, the 'Prince of Preachers,' who addressed thousands each week in London. He was himself a man of great prayerfulness, attributing the power of his ministry to the prayers of his people, and prayer was among the themes he preached on most powerfully.

Twelve of Spurgeon's sermons on prayer, each taking up a different aspect — coming boldly to the throne of grace, pleading God's own promises back to him, persevering in prayer, praying in the Spirit, and more. Together they form not a treatise but a series of vivid, earnest appeals, each pressing the reader toward a particular grace of prayer.

It is one of Spurgeon's best-loved sermons on prayer, dwelling on the wonder that sinners may come boldly to God's throne — a throne of grace, not of judgement — through Jesus Christ. Spurgeon unfolds the encouragement this gives to prayer: that the God we approach is enthroned in grace, ready to receive and to give, so that we may come with confidence and expectation.

He means the holy boldness of pleading reasons with God — laying hold of his character, his promises, and his past mercies, and urging them back to him as grounds for the answer we seek. Spurgeon commends this 'ordering of our cause' before God not as irreverence but as the earnestness of faith, and his sermon on it teaches believers to pray with reasons, as the saints of Scripture did.

Bold, warm, and encouraging. Spurgeon aims to enlarge the believer's confidence and expectation in prayer, sweeping away timidity and unbelief and pressing them to ask great things of a great God. Even when searching, his purpose is to send the hearer to the throne of grace with fresh boldness and faith.

Any Christian who wants to be stirred to pray, and to pray with greater faith and boldness. Preachers and ordinary believers alike have valued Spurgeon's sermons on prayer for their fervour and their scriptural encouragement, and this collection gathers the best of them into a single, faith-building volume.

With any sermon that draws them, since each stands complete on its own — though 'The Throne of Grace' is a natural and encouraging place to start. Read a few at a time and prayerfully, these were spoken to move hearts to pray, and something of their original power to do so survives on the page.