10 Keys To Powerful Prayer | Paul Washer

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I recently came across the following quote and sermon by Paul Washer that challenged my view of prayer. I share it with you here for your edification and exhortation.


Now let me ask you a question. When people hear you pray do they hear someone who knows God? Do they hear the rhythm of the religion? Do they hear words that have been taught to you by other men? Do they hear form? Do they hear intellect? Or do they hear a man or a woman or a child who spends much time in the presence of God?


Has anyone ever come to you and said, “Teach me to preach like you preach”? Well, that may be something to boast about, but not before God.
Has anyone ever come to you and said, “Teach me to administrate like you administrate”? Has anyone ever come to you and said, “Teach me to pray”?

I am not much of a man, but I have had the privilege in my life to be in the presence of many men used by God. And the one thing that I noticed. They had very little in common except one thing. When they bowed their knee, something unusual happened.

There is a saying. When someone achieves a certain thing he may look over and with a twinkle in his eye say, “You can’t learn that. You have got to be born with that.”

You can’t fake prayer.

Jesus was a man of prayer and when he prayed people saw the difference.

Now I want to look for a moment at the idea that Jesus was a man of prayer. And I have just scribbled down here a bunch of verses and I am going to kind of read a hodge podge of verses that you might come to understand the importance of prayer in the life of Jesus Christ and then come to understand that if prayer was so important to the incarnate Son of the living God, then how much more important should prayer be to us? How much more should we depend upon prayer?

~Paul Washer

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3 Comments
  1. Wambua David 1 year ago

    David Paul Washer is a man used by God to bring the light of the word, clear understanding of the true gospel, have been following on him since my life in campus (2014-2019) and he has really been a mentor in my life. May God bless him and receive all the glory for using him.

  2. Luke 2 years ago

    Oh and thanks Tim!

  3. Luke 2 years ago

    I can’t tell you how inspiring this is! I am getting to know the true Living God on my knees now!

    There are far too many things I would like to share but I’ll just share 3 quotes and one resource.

    “The one who kneels the most, stands the best.” DL Moody

    “Prayer is preaching to yourself in God’s hearing. We don’t pray for his information but for our edification.” Thomas Watson

    “Praying is not about overcoming God’s reluctance, but about laying hold of His willingness.” Georg Muller

    Join the world prayer team of Thru The Bible by J Vernon McGee. Every day we travel the world “on our knees” in a new region where the Word of God is going to by TTB! I think about it like praying with my boots on now. I also listen to his daily Monday through Friday expository preaching of the Word, it’s 30 min. If you are interested check out TTB.org and don’t be thrown off by his accent! I have learned so much! Praise God for great teachers!

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