On Prayer

In this insightful discourse "On Prayer" Charles Finney discusses some very good points about prayer. It may very well encourage you to prayer more often and more earnestly. Some points that Charles makes are such things as:

- Prayer also prepares us the better to receive all blessings from God, and hence should be constant.

- Prayer also prepares us the better to receive all blessings from God, and hence should be constant.

- Prayer pleases God as governor of the universe, because it puts us in a position in which he can bless us and gratify his own benevolence.

- Prayer pleases God as governor of the universe, because it puts us in a position in which he can bless us and gratify his own benevolence.

- Search the history of the world, and you will find that where there has been most true prayer, and the soul has been most deeply imbued with the divine presence, there God has most abundantly and richly blessed the soul. Who does not know that holy men of old were eminent for usefulness and power according as they were faithful and mighty in prayer?

- Search the history of the world, and you will find that where there has been most true prayer, and the soul has been most deeply imbued with the divine presence, there God has most abundantly and richly blessed the soul. Who does not know that holy men of old were eminent for usefulness and power according as they were faithful and mighty in prayer?

- The more we pray, the more shall we be enlightened, for surely they are most enlightened who pray most. If we go no farther in divine things than human reason can carry us, we get little indeed from God.

- The more we pray, the more shall we be enlightened, for surely they are most enlightened who pray most. If we go no farther in divine things than human reason can carry us, we get little indeed from God.