A Passion for Prayer

"PRAY WITHOUT CEASING."

               - 1 THESSALONIANS 5:17

What stood out above all in Spurgeon's life as a minister-even more than his extraordinary giftedness for preaching-was his diligence in prayer. Not only was he faithful in the practice of prayer, he also bathed all of life in prayer.

Prayer was the instinct of his soul, and the atmosphere of his life."-Dansdale T. Young

Spurgeon himself once told a friend,

" I always feel it well just to put a few words of prayer between everything I do." 

D.L Moody came to hear the Spurgeon's preach,

and what impressed him most was not the beautiful congregational singing or the powerful sermon, but Spurgeon's heart-stirring prayer.

-GIVING CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE-

Spurgeon made clear that any success he knew was the direct result of a complete dependence upon God through prayer, especially the intercessory prayers of his church.

-THE GREATEST WEAPON-

If any of you ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say it is in that one word-prayer. Prayer is the master-weapon.

C.H SPURGEON ON SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

-2003 by STEVE MILLER (Moody Publishers)