The Prayer Motivator with Daniel Whyte III

Our prayer motivator verse for today is Matthew 26:36 which reads: "Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder." Our prayer motivator quote for today is from Frank Laubach. He said, "The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says ‘Amen’ and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas." Our prayer motivator devotional for today is a continuation of our last broadcast titled EVERY ATTRIBUTE OF GOD IS IMPLIED IN THE FACT THAT HE HEARS AND ANSWERS PRAYER from Dr. John R. Rice. You might recall from our last broadcast, that we discussed three qualities or attributes of God. Those are: 1. a prayer-hearing God is a living God; 2. a prayer-hearing and prayer-answering God is an all-knowing God; and 3. if God is able to answer prayer, then He has all power in Heaven and earth. Today, we will continue this discussion with three more atrributes or qualities of God. Dr. Rice said... Fourth, if God answers prayer and has such infinite wisdom, such almighty power, then He Himself must be the Creator. There could be none other as powerful; there could be none to dispute His right; there could be none other to limit His work or cross His will. Then the God who answers prayer, in the very nature of the case, is the Creator of the heavens and earth. Fifth, the God who answers prayer, then, is a miracle-working God. To believe that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, means that one has faith in all that is ever claimed for God. If there is a God who hears and answers prayers, in the sense of the Bible, then of very necessity His work is miraculous, supernatural, not ordinary, but extraordinary; not human, but divine; not limited, but infinite in scope. "Does God work miracles today? someone asks. And the answer is, Yes, if He is the God who rewards those that diligently seek Him, if He is still the God who hears and answers prayer, then His ordinary and natural way of working in answering prayer would be by miracles. Every soul saved is a supernatural act, not a natural one. Every time God intervenes and controls nature or changes a plan to make it rain when it otherwise would not have rained, and does it because someone prayed, then that is a miracle. Every time a person gets well in answer to prayer, when otherwise he would not have gotten well, it is a miracle, a divine intervention in natural affairs. As the late Dr. Blanchard, president of Wheaton College, said in one of his books, "If there be a God, He must act like a God." A God works miracles. A God who would cease to work miracles would cease to be a God, in the Bible sense, that is, a personal God who personally hears and answers the prayer of faith. Sixth, if God answers prayer then He is a God of infinite love and mercy! God knows none of us deserve to have our prayers answered. We poor sinners deserve only condemnation and forsaking and punishment of death! But God loves sinners. His mercy is boundless. Romans 5:20 says, "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." If there is a God who rewards those who diligently seek Him, that is, who hears and answers the cry, the faith, the need of human beings, then God would give His own Son to atone for sin and make it so He could righteously forgive sin and save sinners and keep them out of Hell and make them into His own image and have them forever with Him in Heaven! Ah, when one really believes that God is a prayer-hearing, prayer-answering God, he has the secret to the very heart of God, and he can dimly see and outline all the graces and powers and majesty of the infinite God! A God who hears and answers prayer is a true God. Any God who does not hear and answer prayer has not the power and the grace to create or support the world, or to love and seek and save lost sinners.

God Does More Than Hear Words -- He Reads Hearts (Prayer Motivator Minute #52)

Every Attribute of God is Implied in the Fact that He Hears and Answers Prayer (Part 2) (The Prayer Motivator Devotional #108)

Our prayer motivator quote for today is from E.M. Bounds. He said: “God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil." Our prayer motivator verse for today is John 15:16 which says: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."

Productive Prayer Requires Earnestness, Not Eloquence (Prayer Motivator Minute #51)

Our prayer motivator quote for today is from John Bunyan. He said: “Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer." Our prayer motivator verse for today is Psalm 34:6 which says: “This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles."

When Life Knocks You to Your Knees, You Are Then in the Best Position to Pray (Prayer Motivator MInute #50)

Our prayer motivator quote for today is from Oswald Chambers. He said: “We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end." Our prayer motivator verse for today is Psalm 116:4 which says: “Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul."

Prayer is the Pause that Empowers (Prayer Motivator Minute #49)

Our prayer motivator quote for today is from E.M. Bounds. He said: “Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet." Our prayer motivator verse for today is Genesis 12:8 which says: “And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD."

When it Comes to Prayer, Don't Hang Up -- Hang On (Prayer Motivator Minute #48)

Our prayer motivator quote for today is from J. Hudson Taylor. He said: “The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, 'Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not!'" Our prayer motivator verse for today is Mark 11:24 which says: “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

Our prayer motivator verse for today is Luke 18:1 which reads: "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint." Our thought for today is that prayer should be the chief work of any Christian. Our prayer motivator quote for today is from Martin Luther. He said, "As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray." Our prayer motivator devotional for today is titled PUTTING PRAYER TO GOD FIRST IN YOUR LIFE... + Plus, listen to Deitrick Haddon singing "Prayer Changes Things"

Never Take on More Work Than You Have Time to Pray About (Prayer Motivator MInute #47)

The Introduction to the Prayer Motivator Devotional Broadcast and the Prayer Motivator Minute (The Prayer Motivator Devotional #103)