I Will Lift My Eyes Unto the Hills: Learning from the Great Prayers of the Old Testament

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“True revival will begin when sinners have heard about the effectiveness of the prayers of God’s people and as a result seek out such praying persons for their own needy lives.” (Page 2)

“Prayer has always been the way God has chosen to show himself strong on behalf of those who called upon him.” (Page 1)

“Our communication with God must remain open; it is the best of all joys to walk and talk with him constantly along life’s journey. He must remain the passion of our being.” (Page 10)

“prayer held a most prominent place in the lives of the Old Testament people, but they often failed to act on it.” (Page 6)

“We seem to see a general pattern forming in Scripture, one in which barren women would often serve as the very special instruments God would use to raise up key figures in the history of redemption. Surely this pattern was planned by God to make sure we mortals did not attribute the arrival of these key figures in the plan of salvation to any human machinations or abilities. Hannah, therefore, could well belong to what we might call ‘the fellowship of the barren ones,’ in which the total inability of these couples to have children became the very starting point for God to manifest in a unique way his power and strength.” (Page 36)