Homer W. Hodge on the Ministry of Prayer

Prayer should be the breath of our breathing, the thought of our thinking, the soul of our feeling, and the life of our living, the sound of our hearing, the growth of our growing.  Prayer in its magnitude is length without end, width without bounds, height without top, and depth without bottom.  Illimitable in its breadth, exhaustless in its height, fathomless in depths, and infinite in extension. –Homer Hodge

Henry W. Frost on Prayer

Henry W. Frost

Henry W. Frost

Nothing so pleases God in connection with our prayer as our praise, and nothing so blesses the man who prays as the praise he offers.  I got a great blessing once in China in this connection.  I had received  bad and sad news from home, and deep shadows had covered my soul.  I prayed, but the darkness did not vanish.  I summoned myself to endure, but the darkness only deepened.  Just then I went to an island station and saw on the wall of the mission home these words: “Try Thanksgiving.”  I did, and in a moment every shadow was gone, not to return. Yes, the psalmist was right: “It is a good to give thanks unto the Lord.”  – Henry W. Frost, China Inland Mission