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If you notice that devil hinder your work or demons disturb your family etc., then address them and cast them out of your circumstances
— Sunday Adelaja
PRAYER to the sun above the clouds.Sun that givest all things birth,shine on everything on earth!If that's too much to demand,shine at least on this our land.If even that's too much for thee,shine at any rate on me.
— Piet Hein
If you want to have a big and strong church, then you need to build a prayer wall of defense in the spiritual realm...
— Sunday Adelaja
It’s not possible for a person who has one to one fellowship with God, someone who breaks through in prayer and who knows how to wait for God not to have open success. It’s just not possible!
— Sunday Adelaja
The third direction of prayer is prayer against Satan, devils and demons
— Sunday Adelaja
There is also a third blessing that comes from spending time alone with God. When we spend time alone with Him, this releases all God’s potential, His power, grace and anointing, all of which are so essential for doing work for the Kingdom of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
There is time for you to pray, and there is time for you to fight!
— Sunday Adelaja
Lift your worship off the ground to a higher ground where love abounds. One thing that hinders sincerity in the worship of God among brethren is insincere love among one another!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Organize your life the way God wants it to be. When you pray, ask God for counsel on matters and you will get the wisest advice directly from heaven
— Sunday Adelaja
Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.
— Teresa of Ávila
Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fear be buried deeply like a carcass into the soil.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
If your prayers remain unanswered, start fasting
— Sunday Adelaja
I asked God for strength that I might achieve. I was made weak that I might learn to obey. I asked for health that I might do greater things. I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy. I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life. I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing that I asked for, but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among all men, most richly blessed.
— Chester Nimitz
If there is any god, then love is his religion and love is his prayer.
— Debasish Mridha
Be sure of this: when you make time for the Holy Spirit, He will make time to visit you.
— Tiffany Domena
The second level of prayer is seeking.
— Sunday Adelaja
The prayer of a righteous man avails much
— Sunday Adelaja
Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.
— Rick Warren
Is there something in your spirit that keeps telling you it should be different: more interesting, more engaging, more creative, more profound? Does your prayer life feel like you're eating the same food over and over every day - mixing the same ingredients but hoping for a new, more enticing dish?
— David Brazzeal, Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul
The prayer of the church determines the history and the fate of its people as well as the whole earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Prayer, sacred supernatural act.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You have no excuse to give... Jonah prayed fervently even in the belly of the shark! Environment is not a barrier!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Prayer is the breath of our spirit-man
— Sunday Adelaja
Asking is the first level of prayer.
— Sunday Adelaja
I regret all the prayers that do not shed tears.
— Davi Oliveira
Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.
— Bernice Morgan
The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking
— Sunday Adelaja
The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him.
— Sunday Adelaja
Your relationship with God has to be alive: Learn to be His child
— Sunday Adelaja
4. If you don’t know the Word of God concerning your problem, then worship Him.
— Sunday Adelaja
Just as electricity is unseen, but by the flip of the switch, lights turn on, so also by the words spoken in prayer, miracles manifest.
— Tiffany Domena
Happiness is activity of soul.
— Aristotle
O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have.
— John Piper, A Hunger for God
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, Daily Drive 365
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.
— David Brazzeal, Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul
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, Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't
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.
— David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
Always pray in good and bad times
—  tough times shouldn't be your only reasons to remember God.
If you are not in good terms with the one who sent you, you can’t have the right direction to the errands he wants to send you for. Be in good talking terms with God; pray without ceasing!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
Pray to God, pretending as God is only yours.
— Saad Salman
The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ: Biblical Mysteries Revealed in His Own Words Like Never Before in Human History
Hearing God’s voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.
— Gary Rohrmayer
Prayer is your attempt to bring your will and desires in line with God’s will.
— Jim George, A Dad After God's Own Heart: Becoming the Father Your Kids Need
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.
— Gary Rohrmayer, Next Steps For Leading a Missional Church
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.
— David Brazzeal, Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul
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
— Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter
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, Leaders' Watchwords
The God who made all things and has all power, loves us and hears our prayers.
— Katy Kauffman, Faith, Courage, and Victory
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, The Red Light Princess
Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.
— Jim George, The Bare Bones Bible Handbook: 10 Minutes to Understanding Each Book of the Bible
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)
Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2 (Read Chapter One)): Astounding Biblical Mysteries revealed in his own words like never before in human history.
Prayer is the starting point for every decision you make.
— Jim George
You cannot fall or stumble while on your kneels
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Strategic Spiritual Warfare
Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments.
— Felix Wantang
Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.
— Betty  Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
When you love someone, you can’t help but pray for them.
— Elizabeth George, Understanding Your Blessings in Christ: Ephesians
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.
— Balroop Singh
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.
— R. N. Prasher
Thankfulness should always be our first response when God answers prayers.
— Jim George, The Remarkable Prayers of the Bible: Transforming Power for Your Life Today
... most of my prayers are expressions of sheer gratitude for the fullness of my contentment.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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.
— Conrad Hilton
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.
— Jim George
When you stop worrying about your problems and start praising God for His magnificent power you will experience His peace.
— Elizabeth George, Embracing God's Grace: Colossians/Philemon
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, Daily Drive 365
Worrying paralyzes progress; prayer, preparation and persistence ensures it.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
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.
— Diane Goold, Diane's Daily Devotions
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.
— Leland Ryken, Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure
Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film Sophie Scholl
— Sophie Scholl
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.
— Rachel Joyce
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.
— Johann Arndt, True Christianity
TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.
— Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Life is fragile,handle with prayer.
— Amanda  Hudson
Pray for me and I am blessed today, teach me to pray and I will see you in heaven
— Farid F. Ibrahim
Prayer is our voice
—  intuition is God’s answer.
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, Think Great: Be Great!
Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life.
— Jim George
A prayer without faith is absolutely meaningless.
Prayer is the secret weapon that restores your trust in God.
— Jim George
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:	God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,	And thrusts the thing we have prayed 	For in our face, 	A gauntlet with a gift in it. –
— Mary Jane Hathaway, The Pepper in the Gumbo
He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,
— Ellis Peters
. “Don’t be a stranger. And pray about that petition you filed.”	“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, The Pepper in the Gumbo
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.
— Nike Thaddeus
Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.
— Mary Allsebrook, Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes
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.
— K.P. Yohannan, Learning to Pray
Doubt treats God’s Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.
— Jim George
But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.
— Max Lucado, Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe
There were places you didn't want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Destructive behavior—or simply behavior that constantly annoys your spouse to the point of desperation—is not right, and there will always be a serious consequence for it in your marriage and personal life. But every attempt you make to rid yourself of that behavior and do what’s right will bring reward.Today, ask God to help break any bad habits that you or your spouse may have.
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of Prayer™ to Change Your Marriage
Your own forefathers killed to have and hold the land where you were born, and sought to extinguish the memories and souls of those that were slain. What of those who prayed in the mountains of Appalachia for thousands of years? That to me is an abomination, although it is the way of men.
— Bruce Lee Bond, The Broken Coast
We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
As prayer warriors, we must remember that no matter how hopeless a situation may appear to us, God gives us power in prayer to do something about it. We may be overwhelmed by it, but God isn’t. We may not see a way out, but God can. Because of Him, we can make a difference!
— Stormie Omartian, Prayer Warrior: The Power of Praying Your Way to Victory
The decision was too important to make lightly without more prayer.
— Jody Hedlund, An Uncertain Choice
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
— Richard Rohr
Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline
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, The Prayer That Changes Everything: The Hidden Power of Praising God
Solace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Prayer Against the DarknessShekhinaPray for us now bound with scripture and shielded with shawlArmed with passion and loving carePray for us now against suffering, turmoil, and injusticePray for us now against the chaos of the dark.
— Leonard Nimoy, Shekhina
Here all fear of one another, all timidity about praying freely in one's own words in the presence of others may be put aside where in all simplicity and soberness the common, brotherly prayer is lifted to God by one of the brethren. But likewise all comment and criticism must cease whenever words of prayer howsoever halting are offered in the name of Jesus Christ. It is in fact the most normal thing in the common Christian life to pray together.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My ma always told me that when I found things were too hard to figure out, I could probably bet that I hadn't prayed on it first.
— Tracie Peterson, A Moment in Time
Lord, today I ask for a renewed sense of purpose in my smaller daily choices, knowing that how I spend each moment is how I live my life. Every choice matters.
— Stormie Omartian, Lead Me, Holy Spirit: Longing to Hear the Voice of God
Ask Jesus to live in you & fill you with His Holy Spirit, & thank Him that you’re now God’s child
— Stormie Omartian, 30 Days to Becoming a Woman of Prayer
The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline
Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline
Prayer is the expression of your heart’s sincere desires poured out to God.
— Elizabeth George, The Remarkable Women of the Bible: And Their Message for Your Life Today
My prayer; Lord,open my eyes to see good visions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Finally, Christians were accused of being subversive, for they refused to worship the emperor and thus destroyed the very fiber of society. The apologists answered that it was true that they refused to worship the emperor or any other creature, but that in spite of this they were loyal subjects of the empire. What the emperor needs—they said—is not to be worshiped, but to be served; and those who serve him best are those who pray for him and for the empire to the only true God.
— Justo L. González
All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longtigude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.
— Vikram Seth
As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
When programs, methods, and money produce impressive results, there is an inclination to confuse human success with divine blessing. Christians can actually behave like practical humanists, living as if God were not necessary. When that happens, passionate longing for God and yearning for His help will be missing—along with His empowerment.
— John F. MacArthur Jr., Alone With God
No spiritual exercise is such a blending of complexity and simplicity. It is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try, yet the sublimest strains that reach the Majesty on high. It is as appropriate to the aged philosopher as to the little child. It is the ejaculation of a moment and the attitude of a lifetime. It is the expression of the rest of faith and of the fight of faith. It is an agony and an ecstasy. It is submissive and yet importunate. In the one moment it lays hold of God and binds the devil. It can be focused on a single objective and it can roam the world. It can be abject confession and rapt adoration.
— John F. MacArthur Jr., Alone With God
God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?
— Criss Jami, Healology
Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, 'Prove that you are a good person.' Another voice says, 'You’d better be ashamed of yourself.' There also is a voice that says, 'Nobody really cares about you,' and one that says, 'Be sure to become successful, popular, and powerful.' But underneath all these often very noisy voices is a still, small voice that says, 'You are my Beloved, my favor rests on you.' That’s the voice we need most of all to hear. To hear that voice, however, requires special effort; it requires solitude, silence, and a strong determination to listen.That’s what prayer is. It is listening to the voice that calls us 'my Beloved'.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.
— Jim George
Every few words you speak, every little help you offer and every small advice you give mass up tiny miracles that can change someone's life forever!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith.
— Elizabeth George
Look before you leap. Don't take risks lightly. Make sure someone is watching your back. Safety is a shifting illusion, move with it," Grandpa recited in Hadadian before leaning forward and adding his own little ending, "And pray. Trust that God knows best, in every situation.
— Jessiqua Wittman, A Memoir of Mercy
When we soak our soul in the grace of the Gospel, we'll find our desire to spend time with Him in prayer changing. We'll begin to carry on a nonstop conversation with Him in our heart because we know that He loves to hear our voice. Then, when we are faced with a difficult decision, we will be comfortable running to Him. "Lord, I need wisdom." "Lord, I know You're here. Help me to see You. Give me grace!" That'll be our heart's frequent cry. Because the Holy Spirit loves to make Jesus grand in our eyes, He'll nurture, train, and remind us of His gracious condescension.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first God but the first God exists in and as a part of the nature; a man with the help his reason creates a God against the forces of nature that are perceived to be as threat, hence the second God. The second God is the property of an individual mind that created it. A child has no reason and hence it has no second God; but it has the first God not yet known to it because the fear is not felt by the child! The first God is felt and known due to the fear ingrained in the instinct and the second God is the surrender and prayer brought out by the reason!
— Thiruman Archunan
VespersLittle Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,Droops on the little hands little gold head.Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.God bless Mummy. I know that's right.Wasn't it fun in the bath tonight?The cold's so cold, and the hot's so hot.Oh! God bless Daddy -- I quite forgot.If I open my fingers a little bit more,I can see Nanny's dressing-gown on the door.It's a beautiful blue, but it hasn't a hood.Oh! God bless Nanny and make her good.Mine has a hood, and I lie in bed,And pull the hood right over my head,And I shut my eyes, and I curl up small,And nobody knows that I'm there at all.Oh! Thank you, God, for a lovely day.And what was the other I had to say?I said "Bless Daddy," so what can it be?Oh! Now I remember. God bless Me.Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed.Droops on the little hands little gold head.Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.
— A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
Starting the morning without prayer is like starting a car without gas.
— Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter
Every moment God gives you is precious. Never take the life and moments He has given you for granted
— Stormie Omartian, 30 Days to Becoming a Woman of Prayer
To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline
Jehovah chose to do great things through me. I lay my life in total humility never to take the Glory that comes from doing His great work… It all belongs to Him
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Virtue of prayer, virtue of patience.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You pray and nothing happens. You pray and nothing happens.You pray and nothing happens.You pray
—  - and something is bound to happen!.
God, or the 99 Gods, can’t give out miracles to everyone without contradictions.  Give to one, take from another.  Prayer is pathetic, if you give it any thought.  Prayer is nothing but ‘I’m special, gimme what I want’ egotism run amok, exactly the sort of muddy thinking I expect from non-Telepaths.Nessa Binglehause
— Randall Farmer, 99 Gods: Betrayer
So that I could better remember these necessary attributes, I have put them in acrostic form as a memory tool:P - praiseR - repentance which is acknowledged through confessionA - appreciation or thanksgivingY - yielding to God's WillE - entreaty or supplicationR - renewal of fellowship with God
— Teresa Hampton, Leading Ladies: Willing Hearts, Willing Hands
We see through the inspired pages that Jesus often stopped His very important, very urgent work, the work He was sent to do, in order to commune with His Father. It appears prayer was as vital to the Son of God as breathing air.
— Teresa Hampton, Leading Ladies: Willing Hearts, Willing Hands
Jesus is the Commander of two armies. One is an army of angels in heaven and one is the army of prayer warriors on earth. As Commander of these armies, He shows us how to take back from the enemy all he has stolen that is rightfully ours. We do that in prayer as prayer warriors!
— Stormie Omartian, Prayer Warrior: The Power of Praying Your Way to Victory
Prayer is a leader's best friend. Prayer gives her the best offensive strategy in doing the will of God. Prayer should be part of every moment of her life.
— Teresa Hampton, Leading Ladies: Willing Hearts, Willing Hands
If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.
— Mark Batterson
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.
— Aesop
Lord, I pray that my husband will be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God, so he can stand against the enemy every day. Enable him to take up the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Wife
Shalom is the medicine I’d prescribe for Jerusalem—a deep, God-breathed indwelling of peace and prosperity and blessing. An end to the unrest and a sense of wholeness is what the Holy City needs. It’s what the Middle East needs. It’s what I need.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?
— Russ Scalzo
Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion’s den. Jonah prayed in a fish’s stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Prayer isn’t about repeating rituals
—  it’s about spending time with Dad.
Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Praying always means praying through things and not giving up. It means being ever-watchful and persevering in prayer in order to see breakthrough.God wants us to be persistent in our praying. Don’t forget to spend some quiet time praying to your Heavenly Father today.
— Stormie Omartian, Prayer Warrior: The Power of Praying Your Way to Victory
The more a family can be splintered apart, the weaker and more ineffectual they become, and the more the enemy has control of their lives. One way to avoid this is through prayer. When you cover your family relationships in prayer, whether it be with your children, parents, stepparents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, husband, or wife, there will be far fewer instances of strained or severed relationships.
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Parent
Be in a close association with your creator whose is ever ready to direct your plans. Always ensure your convictions are divine and backed by a Godly approval.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present realities. In order to find hope in them, we must seek HIM and HIS perspective. This requires a keen understanding of the redemptive nature of our existence, which points to the glorious gospel of Christ.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
You have to be near Him to hear Him.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
The Holy Spirit’s desire is that we become more and more dependent upon Him for every step. That’s because He wants to take us to places we’ve never been before. To heights we can’t even imagine!
— Stormie Omartian, Just Enough Light for the Step I'm On
There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Prayer is about steeping in the Spirit of a God so loving that He totally changes you.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Prayer changes us because that’s what relationships do.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Changed people change nations.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Nowadays when we bow our heads before meals, we no longer say grace—we receive it.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle.
— Stormie Omartian, Prayer Warrior: The Power of Praying Your Way to Victory
Prayer is simply a constant communion with Christ.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
There’s nothing like breaking the law to hear from the Lord.
— Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life
If your husband’s self-image needs a makeover, be patient. The answers don’t come overnight when a long-held pattern of thinking has to be broken. But you can appropriate the power of God to fight the enemy that feeds him familiar lies, so your husband can be free to hear His truth.Remember that God will reveal glimpses of the key to breaking any of your husband’s bad habits. As you pray for your husband’s self-image, He will show you how to pray.
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Wife
Prayer can be a tricky thing, because there are passages that say do not doubt and believe you have received whatever you ask for and you will, but then Jesus prayed 'Not my will by thy will be done.'  Ultimately, we can't tell God what to do.  He will accomplish, in our lives, whatever He wants to accomplish.  God is God and we are not. 
— Lisa Bedrick, Jesus, God and Us
The Holy Spirit is described as the Comforter, like a mother would be a comforter to her child.  It is also said of the Spirit that He will lead us into all truth.  Who instructs children?  It is generally the mom, since she is with her kids most of the time. Who teaches baby Christians and weans them off of milk and into greater spiritual truths?  The Holy Spirit. 
— Lisa Bedrick, On Charismatic Topics
Know that when you praise and worship God and appreciate fully all that He is, you open up a channel through which more of His love pours into your heart.
— Stormie Omartian, 30 Days to Becoming a Woman of Prayer
Prayer, God’s glory.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you’ve already been set free of, don’t even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You’re not going backwards—you are going deeper.
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman
Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Prayer is such an intimate act, a place of vulnerability. It is, hopefully, when we are our least guarded, our most honest selves. And this is good, of course; this is as it ought to be. When we come to God, we certainly want to come as honestly and openly as we can; we want to be our truest selves before him. Prayer lets us be in a place of need.
— John Eldredge, Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of
God loves to say yes to the prayers that echo His heart.
— Carrie Daws, The Warrior's Bride: Biblical Strategies to Help the Military Spouse Thrive
As I watched them file down the stairs, I didn't cry and I wasn't afraid. But I couldn't tell if it was Jesus or the gin.
— Sarah Thebarge
But what if I don't believe in God? It's like they've sat me in front of a mannequin and said, Fall in love with him. You can't will feeling. What Jack says issues from some still, true place that could not be extinguished by all the schizophrenia his genetic code could muster. It sounds something like this. Get on your knees and find some quiet space inside yourself, a little sunshine right about here. Jack holds his hands in a ball shape about midchest, saying, Let go. Surrender, Dorothy, the witch wrote in the sky. Surrender, Mary. I want to surrender but have no idea what that means. He goes on with a level gaze and a steady tone: Yield up what scares you. Yield up what makes you want to scream and cry. Enter into that quiet. It's a cathedral. It's an empty football stadium with all the lights on. And pray to be an instrument of peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is conflict, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair hope... What if I get no answer there? If God hasn't spoken, do nothing. Fulfill the contract you entered into at the box factory, amen. Make the containers you promised to tape and staple. Go quietly and shine. Wait. Those not impelled to act must remain in the cathedral. Don't be lonely. I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger ...
— Mary Karr
The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.
— John Piper
This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded.
— Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What
Prayer is a state of continual gratitude.
— St. John of Kronstadt
What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?
— Anne Rice, The Wolf Gift
I just want to tell you if that's what You have planned for me, if I am meant to be an obscure flower in the corner of the expansive garden, I will live there and I will love You and I will bloom just for You -- only, always, ever.
— Sarah Thebarge
It is useless to say you have no time. There is plenty of time, if men will employ it. Time may be short, but time is always long enough for prayer. Daniel had the affairs of a kingdom on his hands, and yet he prayed three times a day. David was ruler over a mighty nation, and yet he says, “Evening and morning and at noon will I pray” (Psalms 55:17). When time is really wanted, time can always be found.
— J.C. Ryle
May Love Reign In All Universes andPeace Within Each One Us
— Jennifer T. Webb, The Last Wave Near Death Experience, A Life Of Miracles
Prayer is an act of worship to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May the Heavens be open to your prayers.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When all seems hopeless, cross your fingers and stick with the secular prayer.
— Brian Spellman
Prayer releases your problems to God.
— Jim George, The Remarkable Prayers of the Bible: Transforming Power for Your Life Today
I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. 'Tis over now.
— Jennifer Hudson Taylor, For Love or Loyalty
A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.
— Donald Miller
Pray without ceasing, say all you can to God and lay all your difficulties before him. He’ll take away your tears and make a way where there seems to be none. Wake up and do it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Transform us, by your mercy and grace, into children who are more thankful for your kindness, more humble under your correction, more watchful against temptation, more eager to serve you. Give us hearts overflowing with joy in you and lips that boast often of Jesus Christ, our only hope in life and in death.
— Barbara R. Duguid, Prone to Wander: Prayers of Confession and Celebration
Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
God is always waiting for us to come to Him, so we can be set free from anything that keeps us from becoming more like Him. To the children of Israel in bondage in Egypt, God said He saw their oppression, heard their cry, and knew their sorrows, so He came to deliver them (Exodus 3:7-8). Know that He will do the same for you.
— Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Wife
Heavenly Father, Thank you for taking us into the wilderness time and time again, for there we see revealed the secret sins of our souls. In the desert we experience your great power to save us from our unruly and sinful hearts, and there we complain bitterly when you withhold the pleasures and delicacies of life we have come to expect. Father, forgive us.
— Barbara R. Duguid, Prone to Wander: Prayers of Confession and Celebration
Kindness is my prayer. Humanity is my abode.
— Debasish Mridha
Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations.
— Debasish Mridha
Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.
— Debasish Mridha
Let our heart glow when you pray.Let our soul's innermost desire and need flow in silence, gratitude and humble petition.Let our daily prayers be a life attitude not only when we are in trouble but never forgetting to include all others who are also in difficulties.There are times prayers cannot change things for us but we grow and change with faith and strength, patience and serenity with a heart that extends for others.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
Going to church is not a sign of going to God, if you think he is omnipresent, he is right there in your soul and bedroom.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling... Wear a positive move and say your desires to God!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?
— Francine Rivers, The Atonement Child