Quotes About Prayer

Chapter 1 Prayer Points Pray for President Trump to walk humbly. Pray Proverbs 16:7, Psalm 25:9, Micah 6:8, Colossians 3:12-13, and James 4:10 over him. Pray for godly counsel to be released to President Trump and received by him. Pray Proverbs 19:20-21 over him. A Shocking Visit to the White House In a prophetic dream in early February of 2019, I arrived at the White House in a white limousine.

God grant that this war not last as long as we are able to endure it

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

While none of us will ever speak to anyone with Jesus' full knowledge of people, we are to pray for the gift of discernment; and we are to give ourselves to the task of loving people well enough that we will desire to get to know them and so be able to speak with wisdom to their struggles, hurts, weaknesses, failings, and needs.

But we need to pray daily for humility and honesty to see these sinful attitudes for that they really are, and then for grace and discipline to root them out of our minds and replace them with thoughts pleasing to God.

Jesus paid it all. I mean all. He not only purchased your forgiveness of sins and your ticket to heaven, He purchased every blessing and every answer to prayer you will ever receive.

We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.

The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.

Tenemos que aprender a seguir el ejemplo de Cristo, que fue movido a compasión por los pecadores y que podía orar por ellos incluso cuando lo estaban clavando a la cruz en el Calvario.

Our source of power is in the risen Christ, and we stay connected to Him by beholding Him in His Word and depending on Him in prayer.

We can develop the habit of thinking thoughts that are pure, true, and good. We can develop the habits of prayer and meditating on the Scriptures. But these habits will only be developed through frequent repetition.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible to pray with confidence.

Andrew Murray wrote, "In creating man with a free will and making him a partner in the rule of the earth, God limited himself. He made himself dependent on what man would do. Man by his prayer would hold the measure of what God could do in blessing" (emphasis added).2

The prayer of a Christian is not an attempt to force God's hand, but a humble acknowledgment of helplessness and dependence. When we are on our knees, we know that it is not we who control the world; it is not in our power, therefore, to supply our needs by our own independent efforts; every good thing that we desire for ourselves and for others must be sought from God, and will come, if it comes at all, as a gift from His hands.3

wishes" (4:17) and: He

Those of us living in countries where religious freedom is allowed should regularly give thanks to God for that freedom.

for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness" (1 Timothy 2:2). Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

The main thing is our attitude. We can pray earnestly to God for relief and still be submissive to Him regarding the outcome.

we should take more seriously our responsibility to pray for the leaders of our government that they will make wise decisions.

We do know God has instructed us to pray for leaders. Our duty, then, is to pray for wise decisions, but to trust when foolish and harmful decisions are made.

It is so easy for us to stand apart from the culture and do no more than express self-righteous judgmentalism toward it. But those of us who grieve deeply over our own sin will not do this. Instead we will mourn over the sins and wickedness of our nation and will pray most urgently that, just as we want God to be merciful to us, so we want Him to be merciful to our nation as a whole. This will be another expression of humility in action.

We might agree with what the Bible says about a certain sin, "and even make a commitment of sorts to put it out of our lives…..We would like to be rid of that sin, and even pray to God to take it away, but are we willing to say no to it?

What was it that caused such a dramatic mood change in the heart of the writer? He turns from the circumstances at hand to the Lord.