Quotes about Communication

The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer.

A Christian servant is one who perpetually looks into the face of God and then goes forth to talk to others.

The reason for prayer is intimacy of relation with our Father.

Remember what makes prayer easy is not our wits or our understanding, but the tremendous agony of God in redemption...Prayer is not what it costs us, but what it cost God to enable us to pray.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys? Or are we continually telling God our secrets, leaving Him no time to talk to us? At the beginning of our Christian life we are full of requests to God. But then we find that God wants to get us into an intimate relationship with Himself—to get us in touch with His purposes.

God reveals in John 17 that His purpose is not just to answer our prayers, but that through prayer we might come to discern His mind.

Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him." Then why ask? The idea of prayer is not in order to get answers from God; prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God. If we pray because we want answers, we will get huffed with God. The answers come every time, but not always in the way we expect, and our spiritual huff shows a refusal to identify ourselves with our Lord in prayer; we are here to be living monuments of God's grace.

Have you ever heard the Master say something very difficult to you? If you haven't, I question whether you have ever heard Him say anything at all. Jesus says a tremendous amount to us that we listen to, but do not actually hear.

Are you learning to listen to God before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God's Word fit what you have said?

God speaks in the language you know best—not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to "set your words on fire" for His glory.