Quotes about Prayer-Gods_Response

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Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer and God delivers by prayer.

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God looks not at the elegancy of your prayers, to see how neat they are; nor yet at the geometry of your prayers, to see how long they are; nor yet at the arithmetic of your prayers, to see how many they are; nor yet at the music of your prayers, nor yet at the sweetness of your voice, nor yet at the logic of your prayers; but at the sincerity of your prayers, how hearty they are. There is no prayer acknowledged, approved, accepted, recorded, or rewarded by God, but that wherein the heart is sincerely and wholly.

3

God’s hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ’s intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved (Eph. 1.6).

4

Prayer may not change your circumstances, but it will change your perspective.

5

From a biblical point of view, prayer is related to everything that we are and everything that God is. God does not respond to our prayers. God responds to us: to our whole life. What we say to Him cannot be separated from what we think, feel, will and do. Prayer is communication from whole persons to the Wholeness which is the living God. Prayer is misunderstood until we see it this way.

6

Our prayers run along one road and God’s answers by another, and by and by they meet.

7

[God] is like an eternal, unfailing fountain. The more it pours forth and overflows, the more it continues to give. God desires nothing more seriously from us than that we ask Him for much and great things.

8

One way to get comfort is to plead the promise of God in prayer, show Him His handwriting; God is tender of His Word.

9

God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.

10

Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things, “above all that we ask or think.” Each time, before you Intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

11

It is impossible to ask for too much since the Father’s giving exceeds [our] capacity for asking or even imagining (Peter T. O’Brien).

 

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The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.

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Most Christians expect little from God, ask little and therefore receive little and are content with little.

14

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

15

God has a fixed will. The world is not governed by theoretical possibilities. Yet we are commanded to pray, and our prayer has value. It’s woven into His sovereign will. We joyfully bring our desires to the Father. However, we submit ourselves to Him for the outcome. Like Jesus in the Garden, we pray His will, not our will be done.

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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.

17

In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!

18

God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it.

19

We must not conceive of prayer as overcoming God’s reluctance but as laying hold of His highest willingness.

20

Prayer delights God’s ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

Recommended Books

The Sovereignty of God and Prayer

John Reisinger

Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

Tim Keller

Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus’ Name

Bryan Chapell

The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer

E.M. Bounds

Pray Big: Learn to Pray Like an Apostle

Alistair Begg

Release the Power of Prayer

George Muller