Quotes about Prayer

When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason—God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.

The basis of prayer is not what it costs us, but what it costs God to enable us to pray.

The Lord restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends." As a saved soul, the real business of your life is intercessory prayer. Whatever circumstances God may place you in, always pray immediately that His atonement may be recognized and as fully understood in the lives of others as it has been in yours. Pray for your friends now , and pray for those with whom you come in contact now .

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint, and the lasting remembrance of our lives is of the Lord, not of us.

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

The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.

Lord, our God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom Jesus is the very image, I look to Thee and make my prayer. Bless me this hour with the feeling of Thy presence and the glow of Thy nearness, for I do trust Thee and hope only in Thee.

It is actually more important to be broken bread and poured-out wine in the area of intercession than in our personal contact with others.

Get into the habit of saying, "Speak, Lord," and life will become a romance. Every time circumstances press, say, "Speak, Lord," and make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, "Speak, Lord.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer.

One of the reasons of stultification in prayer is that there is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God.

When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.