J. Vernon McGee On Prayer
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Overview
Deepen your prayer life with this treasury of Dr. McGee’s best sermons on communicating with God. Explore the Christian’s “greatest neglected resource”; examine the prayer styles of great men of faith such as Daniel, Abraham, and Nehemiah; discover the “real” Lord’s Prayer and its meaning for believers today; and more.
Top Highlights
“‘When a man prays for a corn crop, God expects him to say ‘Amen’ with a hoe.’ You can’t just stay on your knees all the time and pray for a corn crop. That’s pious nonsense. But to pray for the corn crop, then go to work, is the thing our Lord is talking about in days when men’s hearts are failing them.” (Pages 5–6)
“Prayer today is the most neglected area in the life of the believer and in the life of the church. It is the weakest member of the body of truth. In fact, prayer deficiency has weakened every vital organ in the life of the believer and in the church today. It was the late A. C. Gaebelein who asserted that being alone with God and communing with Him is the strength of the Christian’s life. There is a steady erosion that has worn away this strong foundation in the lives of believers. Andrew Murray, a great man of prayer, said that prayer is an index of the spiritual life. Most of our trouble and our problems can be traced back to the poverty of our prayer life. The neglect of prayer has affected all areas of the Christian’s personal life and the total life of the church.” (Pages 2–3)
“We act as if we have to hold on to Him or He will not hear us at all. We don’t have to hang on to His coattail and beg and plead with Him. God wants to act in our behalf! If we would come into His presence with an attitude of knowing that He wants to hear, it would transform our prayer lives.” (Page 10)
“The principle for power, the formula, is yielding! Too many believers go through life today never learning to yield to the will of God in their prayer lives. But God says that if we will be filled with the Holy Spirit and yield to His will in prayer, we will have power with Him and with men. How we need that power today!” (Page 58)
J. Vernon McGee was born in Hillsboro, Texas, in 1904. As a student pastor, Dr. McGee's first church was located on a red clay hill in Midway, Georgia. After completing his education (earning his A.B. from Southwestern University in Memphis, Tennessee; his B.D. from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia; his Th.M. and Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas), and after pastoring Presbyterian churches in Decatur, GA, Nashville, TN, and Cleburne, TX, he and his wife came west, settling in Pasadena, where he accepted a call to the Lincoln Avenue Presbyterian Church. He recalls this period as the happiest in his life, with a young family and a young congregation whom he loved.