Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
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Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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.
By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.
A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.
The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.
We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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