One of the gifts we receive from Jesus is an entirely new foundation upon which to build our lives. Once you receive Him, He becomes your new foundation and every day you walk with Him,...

As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer. Though a man’s heart be much indisposed to prayer, yet, if he can but fall into a meditation of God, and...

from Love Under a Dark Sky: “In the universe vastWe share a simple feastAmong creatures equally earthbound.Let us raise our hearts in gratitude,Our eyes in expectationOf a greater supper yetIn heavenly realms.

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his...

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.

Forgive me,’ the woman says. ‘I think I’ve interrupted you in a private moment.”Well,’ I reply, instead of yelling something to the effect of :’No kidding lady, I’m in the bathroom!”Were you praying?’ she asks.’Sort...

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for new friends, and for this evening of fellowship. We ask that you guide our conversations, and that they’ll be pleasing to you. We thank you for this food and...

…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to you pray? Every day. Approximately how long? Five minutes – well, maybe seven....

When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of...

Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard...

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls...

Praying about everything in our lives and keeping quiet can keep us out of a lot of trouble.

Our struggle is–isn’t it?–to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are...

Prayers should be for preventing war, not fighting it.

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don’t help me. I want to do it by myself so that You’ll know I’ve found something I can do for You … I am...

Contemporaries relate that hearing Martin Luther pray was “an experience in theology”. They said the reformer began praying with such humility that he could be pitied, only to proceed with such boldness before God that...

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

Good morning, God. Another beautiful day. I’m still here, and so is the sun. Thank you. Right, now let’s get down to business.

thanks.

Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Faith is the muscle of the spirit. It is strengthened through study, prayer, and meditation. As exercise builds muscle and our bodies become strong; study, prayer, and meditation builds faith and our spirits become strong.

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

William looked up… through his tears… past the catwalk and lights… past the sky… through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in,...

Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer!

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

When Authority is discovered and faith applied, power is manifested

Always pray in good and bad times; tough times shouldn’t be your only reasons to remember God.

You go to bed different… tossing and turning is the norm… you wake to a sunny day but clouds follow you wherever you go. You wonder if you are strong enough to climb out of...

God doesn’t want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.

If materials things only are what you’re talking about when you say ,” I’m blessed”. Then You have no idea what a blessing is. To wake up in the morning , being alive its a...

Prayer is actually setting out a tuning fork. All you can really do in the spiritual life is to get tuned to receive the always present message. Once you are tuned, you will receive, and...

Prayer is a great opportunity to receive grace from God.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Keep your prayer simple. Whatever confuses or complicates prayer is probably best forgotten.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but don’t forget that he never promised he’d say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing . ....

Father Break my heart for what breaks yoursGive me open hands and open doorsPut your light in my eyes and let me seeThat my own little world is not about me

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers,...

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

I also learned that prayer is not as much about getting God to act in certain ways as it is about getting to the heart of God and getting my heart to reflect His heart.

The thing to remember here and what’s sort of been lost is that prayer in the legislature has not been prohibited by the court. All the court has said is that before anyone can issue...

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to change the rules and I’ve had to start all over again.

Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.

After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn’t tell people who they can love or who they can marry.

High and holy ambition–to be a saint–is not opposed to holy humility–total reliance on God’s grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov...

Faith determines your destiny, not your reality.

It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is necessary is to expose them to rewards which they believe they are generating...

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.