The Pure in Heart

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. - Matthew 5:8

The word "pure"can mean "clean," or "pure" or "clear."  Happy are the clean in heart for they shall see God. "How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word"  (Ps. 119:9)  The Lord Jesus said on one occasion to His disciples, "You are already clean  because of the word which I have spoken to you" (John 15:3).  In that wonderful prayer of His, He says, "Sanctify them by Your truth.  Your word is truth" (John 17:7).

God demands holiness- "Be holy, for I am holy" (I Peter 1:16). - Dr. Stephen F. Olford


The late Dr. Stephen Olford was the "Prince of Preachers" and the "Pastor's Pastor." In the years that I knew him I heard him emphasize over and over and over again the need for a clean heart.  He would say, "God never uses dirty instruments."   We need a renewed emphasis on this subject.  May our prayer be, "Cleanse my heart, O God."

Men of Prayer

What is Prayer?

Prayer is our need crying out for help.

Prayer is the voice of faith to the Father.

Prayer is the Living Word in lips of faith.  - E.W. Kenyon

Prayer is the channel through which all good flows from God to man, and all good from men to men.  Prayer is a privilege, a sacred princely privilege.  Prayer is a duty, an obligation most binding, and most imperative, which should hold us to it. But prayer is more than a privilege, more than a duty.  It is a means, an instrument, a condition.  It is the appointed condition of getting  God's aid.  It is the avenue through which God supplies man's wants. - E.M. Bounds