Quotes by Pastors - Page 62

The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say it again. Prayer is simply communicating with God. That one uncomplicated thought began to revolutionize my whole prayer life. What is communication? It's transferring a thought, feeling, emotion, or idea to another person. So prayer is giving God my thoughts, feelings, emotions, and ideas, by whatever means works. It doesn't have to be formal. It doesn't have to be long and dry. It's simply communicating.
Craig Groeschel
Pray when you're alone. Pray when you're with a lot of people. Pray when you're in small groups. Pray on your way in; pray on your way out. Pray in your closet, in your car, at your desk. Pray morning prayers, pray mealtime prayers, pray in between mealtimes. Pray fervently, expectantly, and unself-consciously. Pray when you're burdened, worried, sick, or brokenhearted. Pray when you're soaring, setting records, or dancing on a mountaintop. Pray when you're up, and pray when you're down. Pray when you're healthy, when you're sick, when you feel like it, and when you don't. (Especially when you don't.)
Bill Hybels
Prayer is picking a fight with the Enemy. It's spiritual warfare. Intercession transports us from the sidelines to the front lines without going anywhere. And that is where the battle is won or lost. Prayer is the difference between us fighting for God and God fighting for us. But we can't just hit our knees. We also have to take a step, take a stand. And when we do, we never know what God will do next.
Mark Batterson
The church is a house of prayer for all nations
Sunday Adelaja
Prayer is not supposed to be magical.
Sunday Adelaja
Prayer is supposed to be interaction with God.
Sunday Adelaja
Prayer is supposed to be a fellowship.
Sunday Adelaja
Prayer is pouring your heart to the one you love.
Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes, God drives us to Prayer and Scripture not for answers to the struggles, but for anchors in the storms.
Todd Stocker
Don’t pray for the sake of prayer, pray only because you want to be God
Sunday Adelaja
Prayer connects us with God and together we are unstoppable
Sunday Adelaja
Come to the Lord with boldness and talk to Him in prayer
Sunday Adelaja
Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.
A.W. Tozer
The great purpose of prayer is not getting things from God but getting God.
David Mathis
When we find ourselves praying for something that we want, perhaps more than anything we've ever wanted before, can we honestly pray, 'Lord, do what will bring you the most glory"?
Paul Tautges
Prayer doesn’t begin with our needs, but with his bounty.
David Mathis
It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.
David Mathis
He is holy, and so we worship (adoration). He is merciful, and so we repent (confession). He is gracious, and so we express appreciation (thanksgiving). He is loving and caring, and so we petition him for ourselves, our family, our friends, and our world (supplication).
David Mathis
This is the heart of prayer—not getting things from God, but getting God.
David Mathis
…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.
David Mathis
You may be confident that if something is necessary for the carrying out of His will in your life, God is ready to give it…If they [desires] are not mere whims to bring only momentary satisfaction or glory to us but are rather true desires to accomplish more good and live more fully to His glory, then it will be in accordance with His will. Only a careful searching of your heart can allow you to know the motivation that prompts your prayer.
John R. Bisagno
Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.
Erwin W. Lutzer
I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.
David Wilkerson
Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.
Wayne Cordeiro
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
John Ortberg
After much prayer, careful study and reliance on the Holy Spirit, I have concluded this about Christ’s intercession for us. Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me – and He is in heaven now to maintain that peace, for me and in me.
David Wilkerson
Don’t pray that God would teach you how to love like He loves; pray that He would fill you with Himself and that He would love in and through you. Don’t pray that He would teach you to have joy; pray that the living God full of joy would enter into you. Don’t pray that He would teach you how to be peaceful; ask for the God of peace, the Prince of peace to infill you. Because if you try to imitate in your own strength, you will be a miserable replica. But if you allow the impartation of Jesus Christ to overtake you, suddenly it all works because it is Him imitating Himself, and He is very good at being God.
Eric Ludy
[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.
Charles F. Stanley
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
Charles F. Stanley
The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.
Rick Warren
Since you act as though God is dead, I wanted to join you in the mourning."The reply of Martin Luther's wife, in full funeral regalia, in trying to illustrate the folly of his depressed state.
Mark Driscoll
Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.
Charles R. Swindoll
Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in.
Matt Chandler
There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning.
Matt Chandler
When you're depressed, it's like you pick up one of those shields in a video game, but instead of protecting your life power, it blocks you from being able to receive any affirmation or encouragement.
Sammy Rhodes
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.
Joel Osteen
Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.
Sunday Adelaja
Having an inaccurate or incomplete view of ourselves is why are always depressed
Sunday Adelaja
In order not to be captured in a trap of depression at the latter end of your life, you should properly assess yourself, rightly understand your identity and realize that you are not the same as your appearance
Sunday Adelaja
Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.
Mark Buchanan
When people quit talking to God, they quit talking to one another. And people who quit talking to God soon get very lonely and depressed. They are actually lonely for God, hungering for communion with Him, yearning for His close love and nearness; but instead of recognizing these needs as spiritual, they blame their lack of fulfillment on their husbands or wives.
David Wilkerson
If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.
Mark Driscoll
In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.
Todd Stocker
Truly edifying words are words that reveal the character and the promises and the activity of God. They're cross-centered words. They're words rooted in and derived from Scripture, words that identify the active presence of God, and words that communicate the evidences of grace that you observe in others. They're words that flow from a humble heart.
C.J. Mahaney
Knowing that God is backing up our words and actions makes us strong, firm and courageous in any trial or persecution
Sunday Adelaja
Discouraging words should not weigh you down instead they should challenge you
Sunday Adelaja
Your words are determined by what dwells in you
Sunday Adelaja
For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.
Jeremias Gotthelf
A promise is something that has been given but not yet realized.
Todd Stocker
Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.
A.W. Tozer
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.
Sunday Adelaja
God is so much bigger than our ‘what ifs’ that he can turn them into ‘why nots
Gary Rohrmayer
Anyone who accepts Jesus into his heart and believes Him always becomes great
Sunday Adelaja
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
A.W. Tozer
The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.
A.W. Tozer
People act what they truly believe.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
Timothy J. Keller
To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future.
Todd Stocker
Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
Randy Alcorn
When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.
Randy Alcorn