SERMON ILLUSTRATION FROM SPURGEON to describe perseverance in prayer.

Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your preaching to describe perseverance in prayer.

 

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly; others give but an occasional pluck at the rope; but he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.