Sermon Illustrations

Category: Jared Brock

  • Life is gravy

    I’ve come to realize that prayer is the main dish, and everything else is gravy. Jared Brock – American authorClick to TweetFrom the book “A year of living prayerfully” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Prayer just asking?

    Peter Greif “I’ve been thinking about something lately,” he said. “So much of the Christian prayer life consists of asking God for things. So what are we going to pray about when there’s no more pain and sin and suffering?” That messed me up. I think most Christians, myself in particular, see God mostly as…

  • Prayer Buffet

    Pete Greig “The Bible says to pray at all times with all kinds of prayers,” he continued. “But a lot of people think that prayer is just one thing. That’s like going to a buffet and only ever eating one item. You’ll get sick. You need a huge variety in order to stay healthy. Prayer…

  • Prayer for extroverts

    Pete Greig It’s true—almost every prayer book I’ve read has been written by an introvert. As Philip Yancey says, “Most of the great books on prayer are written by ‘experts’—monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I’ve read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.” Most prayer books I’ve read have focused on silence and…

  • Prayer requires strength

    “Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray, for prayer requires strength.” HUDSON TAYLOR Jared Brock – American authorClick to TweetFrom the book “A year of living prayerfully” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Reducing Self

    Bill Bright nails it when he says that “fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.” Jared Brock – American authorClick to TweetFrom the book “A year of living prayerfully” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Don’t talk about prayer

    Andrew Bonar “Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer, rather neglect friends than not pray, rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper—and sleep too—than not pray. . . . And we must not talk about prayer—we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near.” Jared Brock – American authorClick…

  • Fast to grow closer

    Andrew Murray “Fasting helps to express, to deepen, and to confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, to sacrifice ourselves, to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God. . . . Prayer is the reaching out after God and the unseen; fasting, the letting go of all that is seen and temporal.”…

  • Fasting

    Fasting as it relates to prayer is the spiritual atomic bomb that our Lord has given us to destroy the strongholds of evil. BILL BRIGHT Jared Brock – American authorClick to TweetFrom the book “A year of living prayerfully” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Prayer and equipping

    As Oswald Chambers says, “Prayer does not equip us for greater works—prayer is the greater work.” Jared Brock – American authorClick to TweetFrom the book “A year of living prayerfully” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*