The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.
The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the shower, your dear ones will step into it. Every prayer and every sigh which you have uttered for them and their future welfare will, in God's time, descend upon them as a gentle rain of answers to prayer.
A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand. " This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work. In meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in others.
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.
To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.
Your requests change history because your prayers change God!
Temptation isn't a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you're free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say your prayers. It wakes you in the morning with a friendly cup of coffee, and knows exactly how you take it.
Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.
Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.
