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Prayer is always essential, but thought is essential, too, because prayer can be just an escape mechanism, almost at times a cry in the dark by people who are desperate and defeated. Prayer must be intelligent, and it is only to those who realize that their bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost that the answer will be given and the power will come.
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Prayer is the answer to the disease of self-confidence.
Prayer0I believe that prayer is the measure of the man, spiritually, in a way that nothing else is.
Prayer0One fervent prayer in secret will speak more for our sincerity than many in public.
Prayer0If you could be brought once to love secret prayer, and to converse feelingly with God in his word, your heaven will begin on earth; you will enjoy more pleasure than in all manner of riches.
Prayer0God ordains our prayers as means of receiving what he plans to give, all to enrich our relationship to him. As the perfect Father of his children, he reserves the right to answer the requests we should have made rather than those we actually made when we have asked for the wrong thing; but he will take action one way or another in every situation of need that we bring before him.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Prayer must be fired with zeal and fervency.
Prayer0What is prayer? It is an offering up of our desires to God for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ.
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
Prayer0I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
Prayer0The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
Prayer0Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Prayer0A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
Prayer0Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
Temptation0I am profoundly grateful to God that He did not grant me certain things for which I asked, and that He shut certain doors in my face.
Prayer0Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies.
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Do you pray? One of the things that happens in your prayer life is if you think that you gotta earn the favor of God you'll never be a prayer. If you understand the favour of God was granted you in Jesus Christ you'll have a tendency to run to Christ and not from him.
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God is always willing for us to hit the mark when He directs our arrows. When He teaches us to wrestle, He then intends we should prevail. Spiritual breathings are attended with spiritual blessings. Nothing will ascend to heaven but what came down from heaven. That prayer meets with no answer which is not offered up in faith.
Prayer0If God does not give His people what they ask for, it is because He knows they do not need it, and that it is not for their good.
Prayer0Let prayer be the key to open the morning and the bar to shut the evening.
Prayer0God is forced to mortify sins by afflictions, because we mortify them not by the Spirit.
Sin, Suffering0As a body without a soul, much wood without fire, a bullet in a gun without powder, so are words in prayer without spirit.
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If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
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Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
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