Quotes on Prayer by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Mrs. Lloyd-Jones says, “No one will understand my husband, who does not know that he was first a man of prayer and then an evangelist.”

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' quotes…

“The highest picture you can ever have of man is to look at him on his knees waiting upon God.”

“Those who know God best are the ones who speak to him most of all.”

“The thing that keeps one going in the Christian life is prayer – communion and fellowship with God; it is something which is absolutely essential. I would go further and say that the Christian life is really impossible without it.”

“If you have never had difficulty in prayer, it is absolutely certain that you have never prayed…. Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.”

“We must start praying by asking God to help us pray, acknowledging our lifelessness and our dullness and our slowness.”

 “If your knowledge of doctrine does not make you a great man of prayer, you had better examine yourself again.”

“Great prayer is always the outcome of great understanding.”

“You take the doctrine, you accept it and work it out, and then you find that it leads to this confidence (in prayer).”

“I am more than ever convinced that the trouble with many Christian people is that they do not preach to themselves. We should spend time every day preaching to ourselves, and never more so than when we get on our knees in prayer.”

“If we have eternal life, if we are His children, we, I say it with reverence, have the ear of God – we can be confident He is always waiting to listen to us.”

 “The first thing to do in prayer is to realize the presence of God. You do not start speaking immediately…. The realization that you are in His presence is infinitely more important than anything you may say.”

“You are aware of a communion, a sharing, a give-and-take, if I may use such an expression. You are not dragging yourself along; you are not forcing the situation; you are not trying to make conversation with somebody who you do not know. No, no! The Spirit of adoption in you brings you right into the presence of God, and it is a living act of fellowship and communion, vibrant with life.”

“Do you know the difference between forcing yourself to pray, struggling to find words and thoughts, desires, and expressions, and, on the other hand, being carried along, as it were, on the crest of a wave while you are more or less a spectator.”

“Above all – and this is regard as most important of all – always respond to every impulse to pray.”

“The moment you feel the slightest movement or indication of His love, respond, act, yield to Him immediately. Whatever He calls you to do, do it at once. And as you do so, you will find that He will come more frequently, and the manifestations will be plainer and clearer.”

 “Without an element of importunity and persistence, or urgency and almost holy violence with God, we will have little right to expect that God will hear our prayer and answer it.”

Ephesians 2:18, “Through him (Jesus Christ) we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.”