Andrew Murray on Prayer

The knowledge of God's Father love is the first and simplest, but also the last and highest lesson in the school of prayer.

Let us beware of the prayer for forgiveness becoming a formality: only what is really confessed is really forgiven.

Throughout Scripture, in the life of every saint, of God’s own Son, throughout the history of God’s Church, God is, first of all, a prayer-hearing God.

Intercession is the most perfect form of prayer: it is the prayer Christ ever liveth to pray on His throne.

It is the branch-life, existing solely for the Vine, that will have the power to pray aright.

It is the life abiding wholly in Christ that can pray the effectual prayer in the name of Christ.

Christ’s life and work, His suffering and death—it was all prayer, all dependence on God, trust in God, receiving from God, surrender to God.

To be a branch means not only bearing fruit on earth, but power in prayer to bring down blessing from Heaven.

The life of abiding and obedience, of love and joy, of cleansing and fruit-bearing, will surely lead to the power of prevailing prayer.

The child who only wants to know the love of the father when he has something to ask, will be disappointed.

Our prayers must not be a vague appeal to His mercy, an indefinite cry for blessing, but the distinct expression of definite need.

In one aspect there must be faith before there can be prayer; in another the faith is the outcome and the growth of prayer.

Faith in the promise is the fruit of faith in the promiser: the prayer of faith is rooted in the life of faith.

A heart full of God has power for the prayer of faith.

Not according to what I try to be when praying, but what I am when not praying, is my prayer dealt with by God.

A prayer meeting without recognised answer to prayer ought to be an anomaly.

God will not delay one moment longer than is absolutely necessary; He will do all in His power to hasten and speed the answer.

Man was created, and has now again been redeemed, to pray, and by his prayer to have dominion.

Give yourself, and live, to do the works of Christ and you will learn to pray so as to obtain wonderful answers to prayer.

The name and the power of asking go together: when the Name of Jesus has become the power that rules my life, its power in prayer with God will be seen too.

To pray in the Name of Jesus is to pray in unity, in sympathy with Him.

Every believer ought to pray much that the unity of the Church, not in external organizations, but in spirit and in truth, may be made manifest.

Our priestly power with God depends on our personal life and walk.

God needs, greatly needs, priests who can draw near to Him, who live in His presence, and by their intercession draw down the blessings of His grace on others.

Not in God, not in His secret will, not in the limitations of His promises, but in us, in ourselves is the hindrance; we are not what we should be to obtain the promise.

Christ is all, the life and the strength too for a never-ceasing prayer-life.