Quotes About Prayer

The challenge may not go away when you pray, and when it doesn't go away, it simply means God believes that He has trained you enough to face it and win.

Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.

When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between your spirit and God. You're speaking the language that only He understands.

When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel close' to a living God. We are spiritually overwhelmed by divine glory.

When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries.

Sometimes it's good to be alone, because that's when your heart is really open to God.

he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him ..." (1 Corinthians 14:2).

It is important for Christians to spend time praying with or in the spirit—that is, praying in tongues. The Bible says, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Romans 8:14).

In other words, he charges up, builds up, overhauls, or refreshes himself. Praying in tongues refreshes and revives you.

Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also" (1 Corinthians 14:13-15).

They finally said to the Master, "Teach us to pray.

We need to take time to connect with the poor, resist our unceasing cravings, and pray. But we also need to gather with friends and family, share in God's good provision, eat delicious food, tell stories that encourage us all, and celebrate the risen Lord.

I pray we are attuned to the ways the kingdom is breaking into our lives as we seek the justice of heaven here on earth.

Establish rituals. Develop your own unique rituals. In my home, we collect all of the photos friends send to us as Christmas cards in a special prayer box, and every night we take out one photo and pray for that family.

Help me. Please, God help me...

Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace, Grant me. Father, a servant's place.

For all night long I dreamed of you: I woke and prayed against my will, Then slept to dream of you again.

I went into the little church, all golden in the autumn sunlight, to say a prayer. Since then, I have visited the most beautiful cathedrals in Europe but they cannot make me forget that simple little house of God.

In 1776, only 22 percent of the colonists in Massachusetts were Puritans, and even the Puritans practiced magic. "Colonial Americans were, in fact, more likely to turn to magical or occult techniques in their effort to avail themselves of superhuman power than they were to Christian rituals or prayer

JENNET What can you see Out there? THOMAS Out here? Out here is a sky so gentle Five stars are ventured on it. I can see The sky's pale belly glowing and growing big, Soon to deliver the moon. And I can see A glittering smear, the snail-trail of the sun Where it crawled with its golden shell into the hills. A darkening land sunken into prayer Lucidly in dewdrops of one syllable, Nunc dimittis. I see twilight, madam. JENNET But what can you hear? THOMAS The howl of human jackals-.

More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. —PSALM 2:8

Now the Irish have a strange custom: whenever the name of County Mayo is spoken (whether in praise, blame, or non-committally, as soon as the world Mayo is spoken, the Irish add: 'God help us!" It sounds like the response in a litany: 'Lord, have mercy upon us!