The Necessary (and Neglected) Importance of Corporate Prayer

Do you attend your church's prayer meeting?

12 quotes on the power of the prayer meeting.

John Knox - "The strength of the kirk lies not in its numbers, but in its cries to God in the assembly of prayer."

Charles H. Spurgeon - "Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church."

E.M. Bounds - "The prayer meeting is the pulse of the church; its power is in proportion to its prayer."

Thomas Watson - "A prayer meeting is the forge where the church’s weapons are beaten out; without it, we fight unarmed."

Andrew Murray - "The power of the church to truly be the church lies in the prayer meeting."

George Whitefield - "Oh, what sweet communion is found when the saints meet to wrestle with God in prayer!"

D.L. Moody - "Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure, and every prayer meeting is a potential birthplace of revival."

R.C. Sproul - "The prayer meeting is where the church learns to lean on the sovereignty of God, not the strength of man."

John Wesley - "God does nothing but in answer to prayer; and the prayer meeting is where the work begins."

Jonathan Edwards - "Extraordinary prayer meetings have ever been followed by extraordinary outpourings of the Spirit."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "The prayer meeting is the thermometer of the church; its spiritual temperature is revealed there."

Matthew Henry - "When God’s people meet to pray, it is as if heaven and earth join hands for the glory of His name.”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "The prayer meeting is the thermometer of the church; its spiritual temperature is revealed there."

Grateful for those who gather to pray each week, mindful of those who don’t, needful of the Lord to pour out a spirit of prayer and supplication upon us, hopeful He will.