A study from Vince Baker Ministries
What did he teach about praying throughout the day?
The short-prayer saying pictures prayer woven into daily life. First Thessalonians places continual prayer alongside joy and thanksgiving. Try beginning the day with a passage, praying again when a need comes to mind, and closing the day by naming a reason for gratitude.
Is it wrong to ask God for the same thing again?
Jesus tells the persistent widow parable to encourage people to keep praying without losing heart. Read it alongside Wigglesworth’s forceful sayings about asking and believing. That comparison helps distinguish confidence in God from the assumption that continued prayer signals a lack of faith.
Scripture to read alongside the quotes
- Luke 18:1-8 · KJV
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 · KJV
- Mark 11:22-25 · KJV
Read the digitized 1924 edition of Ever Increasing Faith. Source notes identify passages and later attributions.
7 Smith Wigglesworth quotes on prayer
Open this quote“If you ask God seven times for the same thing, six times are in unbelief.”
Open this quote“God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.”
Open this quote“I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.”
Open this quote“I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night.”
Open this quote“You will have to voice many things in order to bring them into being.”
Open this quote“God will come to the one who cries first.”
Open this quote“Voice your position in God, and you will be surrounded by all the resources of God in the time of trial.”
