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“I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” — Charles Spurgeon🕊️ 

1. Prayer births what preaching declares.

Preaching proclaims God’s Word; prayer prevails with God’s heart.

A sermon without prayer may inspire for a moment, but a prayerful person births something eternal.

Spurgeon understood that one man who truly knows how to reach heaven can move God to raise up ten preachers full of the Spirit.

2. Prayer changes the one who prays — permanently.

A preacher can influence others, but a praying person becomes a partner with God.

In teaching one person to pray, you’re teaching them how to commune with the Creator Himself — to draw strength, revelation, wisdom, and love directly from the Source.

That one person’s life becomes a continual sermon.

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3. Prayer opens heaven’s strategy.

Preaching spreads the Word, but prayer unlocks the timing, direction, and anointing for it to bear fruit.

Even the greatest messages fall flat without the spiritual atmosphere that prayer creates.

Through prayer, the impossible becomes possible; through prayer, the Word gains wings.

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4. Because prayer outlives the one who prays.

A preacher’s words may fade, but the prayers of the righteous remain before God’s throne forever (Revelation 5:8).

Spurgeon knew that the man or woman who learns to pray is never powerless again. They are connected to the eternal engine of God’s Kingdom.

So when he said he’d rather teach one person to pray, he was saying:

“Give me one person who knows how to touch God — and that one life will accomplish more for eternity than ten voices speaking without heaven’s fire.”

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Why Prayer Matters More

(after Charles Spurgeon’s quote: “I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.”)

Charles Spurgeon understood something most of the Church still overlooks — that prayer is the fire that gives preaching its flame.

He wasn’t diminishing the pulpit; he was magnifying the altar.

Preaching declares God’s truth.

But prayer births that truth in power.

One man who truly knows how to pray carries more influence in heaven and on earth than ten who speak eloquently without the breath of the Spirit.

When we teach someone to pray, we aren’t teaching them words — we’re teaching them access.

We’re handing them the key to heaven’s resources, the doorway to divine strategy, the secret of strength in every storm.

A praying person carries revival wherever they go, because they’ve learned to host the Presence that changes everything.

This is why prayer matters more.

Because from it flows every sermon that saves, every miracle that manifests, and every move of God that shakes the earth.

“The man who kneels before God can stand before anything.”

— Anonymous