AND GOD WAS THERE Private James Day of New York found these words on the dead body of a soldier who has not been identified: Look, God, I have never spoken to you, but now…
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PRAYER IS Prayer is need finding a voice. Prayer is embarrassment seeking relief. Prayer is friend in search of friend. Prayer is a quest in the darkness of midnight. Prayer is knocking on a barred…
RECOGNIZING AN ANSWER TO PRAYER Bill was sitting in his house during a torrential downpour. As the floodwaters reached the bottom of his front door, some friends came along in a rowboat and called to…
JOHN NEWTON ON PRAYER By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge…
WHAT WE THINK WE NEED "Surely," one sometimes hears it said, "it is absurd to try to change the will of God. Who are we that we should tell God what to do? If we…
MURPHY'S PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER 1. People forget to pray for others in direct proportion to the frequency with which they say, "I'll pray about that." 2. In any prayer group at any given moment, 95%…
MOTIVATED PRAYER A husband and wife from California were motoring through Texas. They saw a tornado coming and, of course, they were afraid. The husband pulled the car off to the side of the road…
AUTHENTIC PRAYER It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for "A" when our whole mind is in reality filled with "B". We must lay before him what is in us, not what…
PRAYER -- COOPERATION WITH GOD To know and love God directly is to come to know what we are. All true Christian pray also presupposes the further step, that there are things He will have…
THIS THING CALLED PRAYER Today is the day I open my "Prayer Envelope." This is a monthly ritual with me, something that began the time I complained to my friend Margaret about how few of…
FRANKLIN ON PRAYER Benjamin Franklin, when a child, found the long graces used by his father before and after meals very tedious. One day, after the winter's provisions had been salted he said, "I think,…
IF ONLY If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they would soon have nothing to grumble about. Anonymous
IN ALIGNMENT Prayer is the chief agency and activity whereby men align themselves with God's purpose. Prayer does not consist in battering the walls of heaven for personal benefits or the success of our plans.…
MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His…
LIVINGSTONE'S PRAYER Dr. David Livingstone, who so totally gave his life in service to Christ on the mission field, had a favorite prayer which ought to be etched on the heart of every Christian: Send…
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Just 200 years ago, in 1787, prayer helped determine the future of our country in a significant way. The Constitutional Convention was on the verge of total failure over the issue of whether…
C. S. LEWIS ON MORNING PRAYER The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in…
THE INDIRECT EFFECTS OF PRAYER AND PILLS The British Press Association reported the following strange incident. It seems a British submarine lay disabled on the ocean floor. After two days, hope of raising her was…
THE FRUIT Don't be afraid to go out on a limb for God; that's where the fruit is.
SPIRITUAL FARMING Pray for a good harvest, but continue to hoe.
