The Kayelton Group

“If we open our mouths to God in prayer, he will fill them more and more with suitable petitions and arguments.  When we attempt to open the mouth, God will open it still wider.”  Benjamin Beddome  (1717-1795)

“Where sin abounded to mar, grace will much more abound to renew.  Whatever is lost by sin is more than restored by redemption.  The risen Christ is glorious, and risen Christians will be like him.”  (William Arnot; 1808-1875)

“To bless God is to adore Him, to acknowledge His excellency, to express the highest veneration and gratitude.  To bless God is to render Him the homage of our hearts as the Giver of every good and perfect gift.  The three principal branches of prayer are humiliation, supplication, and adoration.”  Arthur W. Pink  (1886-1952)

“What a mercy that if we believe not, yet God abides faithful, hearing prayer even when we are laboring under doubts which dishonor his name.”  Charles H. Spurgeon  (1834-1898)

“With the Word of God and all the promises, should not boldness be our approach, His faithfulness our stay, and super-abundant transactions our expectations!”  (Anonymous)

“Our daily acts of communion with God — our daily praise, our daily thanksgiving — must be found afresh on the work of Jesus.  “By Him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.”  (Hebrews 13:15)  (A.A. Bonar, 1808-1889)

“Blessed are the poor in spirit” — that is, that are emptied of themselves, and look upon themselves as having nothing, deserving nothing, and able to do nothing spiritually.  That is the first link of the chain, and each succeeding link depends upon the former link.”  Thomas Goodwin  (1600-1679)

“Christ comes and picks away the weeds, the sin of our prayer, and presents nothing but flowers to His Father which are a sweet smelling savor.”  Thomas Watson  (1620-1686)

“Grace to pray, and the fixing of the heart in prayer on the Lord, is his gift, no less than the answer of the prayer: and where the Lord gives the one grace, he will also give the other: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.”David Dickson  (1583-1662)

“It will be a great comfort to us if trouble, when it comes, finds the wheels of prayer a-going, for then may we come with the more boldness to the throne of grace.”  (Matthew Henry; 1662-1714)