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The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. Leonard Ravenhill

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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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One fervent prayer in secret will speak more for our sincerity than many in public.

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If 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.

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God 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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What 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.

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I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

A 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.

I 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.

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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.

If 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.

Let prayer be the key to open the morning and the bar to shut the evening.

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As 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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Remember, that as loathing of meat, and painfulness of speaking, are two sympthoms of a sick body; so irksomeness of praying when thou talkest with God, and carelessness in hearing [Him in His Word]… are two sure signs of a sick soul.

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Prayer is the arrow and faith is the bow by which our requests go up to heaven. A faithless prayer is a fruitless prayer: The father of the child cried out and said with tears, "Lord, I believe." When his tear dropped to the earth, his faith reached heaven.

Prayer is the key that opens God's treasury, but faith is the hand which takes out and receives of His infinite bounty. Prayer must have a promise, or else it is a vessel without a bottom; and that promise must have faith, or else the vessel lies still and cannot stir at all. When a full gale of faith fills the sails, then the vessel of prayer launches forth most hopefully and returns with its riches freight.

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Prayer is a seed sown in God's ears; other seed sown in the ground may be picked up by the birds, but this seed, especially if watered with tears, is too precious to be lost.

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