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A lot of us pray as if prayer is really twisting the arm of God or convincing God to do something. We think by saying more words we’ll talk God into it. We think, “If I say it one more time, God will agree with me.” That very attitude is an alienating attitude. It keeps us in the role of doing it “right” or often enough to convince an unready or unwilling God. Wrong, wrong, wrong!19 minutes ago

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Richard J. Foster

There’s so much to be grateful for, and praising God for giving you His Spirit is a great place to begin.Even if you don’t think you have much to be grateful for right now, know that you can always praise God for the Holy Spirit’s presence in your life!

Stormie Omartian

Solace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone...

Muse

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,

. “Don’t be a stranger. And pray about that petition you filed.”t“Mama,” Paul groaned. That was the Christian way of saying “I know you’re wrong but you won’t take my word for it, so God will have to explain it to you.

Mary Jane Hathaway

Dear Gods of Heaven and Earth.The universe has began, without a beginning. Even if it's divided into Heaven, Earth, and Man, the essence is the same. Although Heaven, Earth, and Man are different in form, they have the same nature. Although Heaven is full of spirits, because there is no box to contain it, fom heaven came Man. When the three absolutes move in harmony, energy is created, covering all the material and the spirit for the Man. All the use of all creation may change, the basic mind is originally the bright light. Shine on Man with respect for it, Man is the best of the universe.

Auliq-Ice

Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.

Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.

Mary Allsebrook

And I'd pray for them. And I'd imagine peace they couldn't expect and couldn't account for descending on their illness or their quarreling or their dreams.

Marilynne Robinson

I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

Spencer W. Kimball

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

Doubt treats God’s Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.

But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.

There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philomena asked if they would like to join her for prayers and they said yes, they would. They closed their eyes as Sister Philomena whispered the words and I thought this must be the nearest humans get to whatever God is, when they hold hands and listen.

The first help to prayer is our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, 1 John 2:2. He is pleading our cause before God, when we are hardly able to express what we want; who is therefore called the Word of the Father, because God, by him, has discovered his will to us; as he is also called 'the Mediator,' because he solicits our cause before God. When Moses complained that he was of slow speech, and a slow tongue, that so he might avoid carrying the commanded message to Pharaoh, God tells him, 'Aaron thy brother can speak well, he shall be to thee instead of a mouth.' Se we also, when we shall pray, are dull, and slow of speech, and therefore must fly to Christ, our heavenly Aaron, who is to us instead of a mouth. Therefore Christ commands us to pray in his name, who is our eternal High-priest, 'having an everlasting priesthood,' (Heb. 7:24,) 'interceding for us,' (Rom. 8:34,) 'in whom we have boldness,' and access with confidence by the faith of him,' Eph. 3:12.

TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Life is fragile,handle with prayer.

Pray for me and I am blessed today, teach me to pray and I will see you in heaven

Farid F. Ibrahim

It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Heavenly Father, your ears are ever open to our prayers.Save us now!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life.

Prayer is the secret weapon that restores your trust in God.

I know we sort of said goodbye, but I don’t have anyone else to tell this to and I’m going to burst with it. You know EBB’s verse:tGod answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,tAnd thrusts the thing we have prayed tFor in our face, tA gauntlet with a gift in it. –

Mary Jane Hathaway

In the circle of successful living, prayer is the hub that holds the wheel together. Without our contact with God we are nothing. With it, we are 'a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor.

To be in Christ means to be like Him, to make ours the very movement of His life. And as He "ever liveth to make intercession: for all "that come unto God by him" (Heb 7:25), so we cannot help accepting His intercession as our own. The Church is not a society for escape—corporately or individually—from this world to taste of the mystical bliss of eternity. Communion is not a "mystical experience": we drink of the chalice of Christ, and He gave Himself for the life of the world. The bread on the paten and the wine in the chalice are to remind us of the incarnation of the Son of God, of the cross and death. And thus it is the very joy of the Kingdom that makes us remember the world and pray for it. It is the very communion with the Holy Spirit that enables us to love the world with the love of Christ. The Eucharist is the sacrament of unity and the moment of truth: here we see the world in Christ, as it really is, and not from our particular and therefore limited and partial points of view. Intercession begins here, in the glory of the messianic banquet, and this is the only true beginning for the Church's mission. It is when, "having put aside all earthly care," we seem to have left this world, that we, in fact, recover it in all its reality.

Alexander Schmemann

Your prayer life is the foundation of your relationship with Christ.

When you stop worrying about your problems and start praising God for His magnificent power you will experience His peace.

Elizabeth George

Let God direct your steps. The main reason why many steps fail is that people know God is an expert in directing steps, but they don’t want to give him the contract.

Israelmore Ayivor

Worrying paralyzes progress; prayer, preparation and persistence ensures it.

The scriptures serve as guideposts to keep us on the right path, and prayer is our helpline when we have lost our way or need to be redirected.

The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.

Leonard Ravenhill

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film Sophie Scholl

Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.

Prayer is the starting point for every decision you make.

You cannot fall or stumble while on your kneels

Ikechukwu Joseph

Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments.

Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.

When you love someone, you can’t help but pray for them.

Elizabeth George

The power of prayer is so profound that it can assuage our emotions. It calms the mind, dilutes all our worries, gives an anchor to fears and endows us with a remarkable peace of mind.

My Ten Commandments:1. God is a verb, not a noun.2. Prayers are important only if they lead to corresponding actions.3. Creation is an art. Science provides the tools for the artist. Anybody with the tools is not necessarily an artist.4. Religion involves exclusivity and superiority. Divinity is inclusive and involves humility.5. God by definition should be omnipotent. He should not require intermediation by priests and prophets.6. All prophets have displayed exclusivity and superiority. (Refer to #4 above)7. Rituals involve intermediation and often cruelty towards other fellows of creation. 8. Inclusivity and humility towards all creations of God is divine.9. Rituals are antithesis of the divine. Rituals indicate a god and his intermediaries who are greedy, arrogant, revengeful and cruel.10. God exists only for increasing happiness of all creatures.

Thankfulness should always be our first response when God answers prayers.

... most of my prayers are expressions of sheer gratitude for the fullness of my contentment.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Prayer is your attempt to bring your will and desires in line with God’s will.

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

Elizabeth George

Father, help me focus on my strengths and trust others to fill the gaps of my weaknesses”Every leader knows the skills in which they excel. They also are aware of those tasks that they maintain a certain level of competence along with those duties they struggle in accomplishing. In my experience there are "want to’s" and the "have to’s" of leadership. The "want to’s" energize a leader and the "have to’s" zap the leader’s creativity and time. The quicker a leader can find those around them that will fill the gaps of their weaknesses, the more effective they will be in achieving God’s mission.

You can be assured, though, that prayer is unbounded, undetermined, and untethered. We may end a certain series of spoken words, but the spirit of the prayer stays with us, walks out the door, and down the street with us. At any moment of the day, we can pop back into that same spirit with just a pause on a bridge, the thought of a friend, or the whispered word, “thanks.

Oh Lord, make us ableTo eat all that's on this table,And if there's some we haven't gotBring it to us while it's hot

Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!

Israelmore Ayivor

The God who made all things and has all power, loves us and hears our prayers.

Men started praying to you, begging for a taste. That legend of yours spiraled out of control. You gave the people hope. They were told you were all they ever needed.

James W. Bodden

Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.

You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning.You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night.But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting.

minister from Australia or New Zealand...(Jim Cymbala)

Don’t feed your body and keep your spirit starving. Butter bread for your body and living bread for your spirit. Read the Bible every day and keep your spirit away from hunger.

Israelmore Ayivor

As a kid, I was taught that if you opened the Bible in the middle you'd probably land on the book of Psalms. And near the middle is everyone's favorite, the 23rd, there is this line: "You prepare a table before in the presence of my enemies." I don't know how many times I've read or recited this Psalm without pondering what that line actually means, but here is my take on it. When things are a bit tense, when life is not going at its best, when the potential for disaster is just around the corner, when your enemies are all around you - and even staring you down! - that's when God lays out the red-checkered picnic cloth and says, "Oooo, this is a nice place. Let's hang out here together for a while...just you and me.

We can't tell you the origin of the experience. But we can tell you the brain does appear to be built to have these [mystical] experiences. There are examples of people reaching similar states, spontaneously. But for the most part, it takes work. Meditation and these powerful prayer experiences require dedication and practice. But people have figured out how to do this, and the question is, 'What is the source of that experience?' The answer is, 'We don't know.' Science doesn't really have an answer for you.

Andrew B. Newberg

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.

Octavia E. Butler

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

Always pray in good and bad times

tough times shouldn't be your only reasons to remember God.

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