Billy Graham Quotes - Page 28

It is not the posture of the body, but the attitude of the heart that counts when we pray . . . The important thing is not the position of the body but the condition of the soul.
Billy Graham
Our prayers must be in accordance with [God’s] will. He knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.
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The Book of Psalms is the Bible’s hymnbook. It will show you what it means to walk with God in prayer and praise.
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The devil will tremble when you pray.
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We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, lest we become self-sufficient.
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A survey reported that the majority of the seminaries [in the United States] had no classes on prayer. That really shouldn’t surprise us when we consider how many local churches offer classes on gardening and the “Art of Conversation” instead of the study of God’s Word and prayer.
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Prayer is our lifeline to God.
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Prayer is not an option but a necessity.
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Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world’s greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].
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The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word.
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Prayer shouldn’t be a burden but a privilege—God wants our fellowship.
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Prayer is the companion of Bible study.
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I listened to a discussion of religious leaders on how to communicate the Gospel. Not once did I hear them mention prayer. And yet I know of scores of churches that win many converts each year by prayer alone.
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Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth— but of even greater importance is God’s Word, the Bible.
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Pray because Christ died to give us access to the Father. Pray because God is worthy of our praise. Pray because we need His forgiveness, cleansing, guidance, and protection. Pray because others need our prayers.
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Nothing can replace a daily time spent alone with God in prayer. We can also be in an attitude of prayer throughout the day—sitting in a car or at our desks, working in the kitchen, even talking with someone on the phone.
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Prayer is speaking to God— but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.
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Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.
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Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer.
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We have not yet learned that we are more powerful on our knees than behind the most powerful weapons that can be developed.
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A life taught in the Scriptures, and tuned in to God in prayer, produces an outflowing of grace and power.
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God urges us to bring our concerns to Him—not just petitions about our own needs, but also intercessions for others. [The apostle] Paul said . . . “Brothers, pray for us” [1 Thessalonians 5:25 NIV].
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Often, we try to tell God what we want Him to do—but ask Him to help you guard against this, and to seek His will instead of your own. Pray and ask God to guide you.
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[God] says to pray for our enemies. How many of us have ever spent time praying for our enemies?
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Why do we need to pray? Because the Christian life is a journey, and we need God’s strength and guidance along the way.
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How can you keep your mind from wandering when you pray? Remember what you are doing: talking to God. If you had the opportunity to talk with the president, I doubt if your mind would wander. [We] have the privilege of talking to someone far greater: the King of kings!
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God welcomes our prayers. He is much more concerned about our hearts than our eloquence.
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A friend of mine defines prayer as “a declaration of dependence.
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Ask God to give you a greater hunger for Himself and a deeper desire for His fellowship. Then be honest about whatever is keeping you from prayer, and ask God to help you deal with it.
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A muscle becomes weak if it is not used. To become strong, a muscle must push against something.
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God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless.
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God is in control. He may not take away trials or make detours for us, but He strengthens us through them.
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Grief can kill a person emotionally and physically. If not counteracted with God’s strength and power, our personal weakness may debilitate us.
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God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that He ordains.
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We must learn to let the Word of God feed us and strengthen us in our faith in God its author, Christ its message, and the Holy Spirit its teacher.
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Are your beliefs anchored in a faith that can withstand emotionalism, the drug culture, social and peer pressure, and material temptations? The world is seething with demonic energy. Only supreme inner strength can resist its ceaseless hassling.
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We shouldn’t think about ourselves and how weak we are. Instead, we should think about God and how strong He is.
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Our ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.
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Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
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The focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and “personal fulfillment.” America’s compulsion for “maximum personhood” is evidenced everywhere.
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Are you disappointed with society? If you are,I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.
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Today we see social evil, terrorism, and gross immorality throughout the world. Someone has said, “A wrong deed is right if the majority of people declare it not to be wrong.”By this principle we can see our standards shiftingfrom year to year according to the popular vote!This new permissiveness is condoned by intelligent men and women,many of whom are found in the churches.
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Jesus indicated that there will be a permissive society just before He comes back . . . the world today is on an immoral binge such as has not been known since the days of Rome. We are in a hedonistic society, and what we are seeing is human nature expressing itself without God.
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Sickness is deep within the soul of our society—and that has always been God’s exclusive territory.
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The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.
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The same conditions that prevailed in Rome prevail in our society. Before Rome fell, her standards were abandoned, the family disintegrated, divorce prevailed, immorality was rampant, and faith was at a low ebb.
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Sometimes I think the truly committed Christian is in conflict with society around him more than any other person. Society is going one direction, and the Christian is going in the opposite direction. This brings about friction and conflict. But God has promised, in the midst of trouble and conflict, a genuine peace, a sense of assurance and security, that the worldly person never knows.
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In a decadent society the will to believe, to resist, to contend, to fight, to struggle is gone. In place of this will to resist, there is the desire to conform, to drift, to follow, to yield, and not give up.
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Many children today are growing up without discipline. As they become adults and the discipline of job or family demands are placed upon them, they do not know how to cope . . .children need discipline to be useful members of society. Likewise, God’s children need discipline to be useful members of His family.
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Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.
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Parents need much wisdom in relating to their grown children—and much prayer. Children likewise have much to learn about relating to their parents as the years pass.
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Children, pray for the salvation of your parents.
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It may shock some parents to learn that we don’t own our children. God has given them to us in trust . . . however, God may transfer our children to His home at any time.
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I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.
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Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.
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One of life’s mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths—one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens.
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God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults.
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Ruth once wrote, “Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .‘More people fail for lack of encouragement,’ someone wrote, ‘than for any other reason.
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Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.
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One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.
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