He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the power of prayer and its ability to influence both spiritual and earthly matters.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes that those who master the art of prayer can access divine assistance and influence the world around them. It suggests that prayer is a powerful tool that not only connects individuals to a higher power but also empowers them to bring about change in their lives and the lives of others.
In practice
In a sermon about faith, you might say, 'As Charles Spurgeon reminds us, he that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal.'
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.
The notion of humans as inherently rational beings has been not only trashed in economics, but trashed in all the best research on moral decision-making.
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.
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