Kneeling We Triumph Volume One: Prayer brings God out of His secret place

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“The great battles,” says Samuel L. Brengle, “the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.”

God sets more value on prayer and communion than labor. The heavenly bridegroom is wooing a wife, not hiring a servant. Prayer brings God out of His secret place to work wonders in the earth . . . to pour Himself through the believer into a world of lost souls.
—A. W. Roffe.

A burning Niagara of words does not mean that God is either impressed or moved. Hannah, the mother of Samuel, one of the most profound of intercessors, had no language. “Her lips moved, but her voice was not heard.” There are groanings that cannot be uttered. In the mountain-moving place of travailing prayer, linguists are not needed.—L. Ravenhill.

“Groanings which cannot be uttered” are often prayers which cannot be refused.
—C. H. Spurgeon.

Mental prayer is not unheard—“Hannah spake in her heart.” When the heart is so full of grief that it can only groan in prayer, yet God writes that down: “My groaning is not hid from Thee.”—Watson.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer,
No ear in Heaven will mind it,
And the finest phrase falls dead,
If there is no feeling behind it.

So it is not the speech which tells,
But the impulse which goes with the saying,
And it is not the words of the prayer,
But the yearning back of the praying.
—E. W. Wilcox.

The above quotations are taken from Kneeling We Triumph Volume One, compiled by Edwin and Lillian Harvey and published by Harvey Christian Publishers. This book and its companion, Kneeling We Triumph Volume Two, are available in their Online Christian Bookstore.

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