Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads ones heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell God your troubles, that God may comfort you; tell God your joys, that God may sober them; tell God your longings, that God may purify them; tell God your dislikes, that God may help you conquer them; talk to God of your temptations, that God may shield you from them: show God the wounds of your heart, that God may heal them. If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. Talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration say just what you think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God. --Francois Fenelon Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means for getting something for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. --Oswald Chambers If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray. - Frederick Franson Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers. --J. Sidlow Baxter Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. --Leonard Ravenhill God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. -- Oswald Chambers There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him. --William Law Rich is the person who has a praying friend. --Janice Hughes A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer. –John Climacus It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity. --John of Kronstadt Whether we think of or speak to God; whether we act or suffer for him; all is prayer when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. --John Wesley Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be. --François Fénelon The true spirit of prayer is no other than Gods own Spirit dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings and pantings. It naturally leads to God, to converse with him by prayer. --Jonathan Edwards God does not stand afar off as I struggle to speak. He cares enough to listen with more than casual attention. He translates my scrubby words and hears what is truly inside. He hears my sighs and uncertain gropings as fine prose. --Timothy Jones Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement. --Jacques Ellul In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -- John Bunyan When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered. --John Climacus Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude—an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. --Arthur W. Pink There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. --Brother Lawrence Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work. --Oswald Chambers I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach; A ministers highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray. -H. MacGregor ...your God is a trinity. There are three necessary prayers and they have three words each. They are these, Lord, have mercy. Thee I adore. Into Thy hands. Not difficult to remember. If in times of distress you hold to these, you will do well. Elizabeth Goudge,The Scent of Water Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask. Billy Graham,Encounter Weekly, 1996 Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. In it God shows Himself to us. C.S. Lewis, The Efficacy of Prayer
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