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• Abiding faith attracts the promises of God.
• Any area that doesn’t have an expectation of good is under the influence of a lie.
• Any revelation that does not bring us into greater encounter only trains us to be more religious.
• Anything you think you know about about God, that you can’t find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.
• Arrogance isn’t thinking too much of ourselves but thinking too little of others.
• Don’t grade yourself differently than God does.
• Don’t let the “how to’s” of worship distract you from the “Who to.”
• Don’t let what you didn’t get in your childhood keep you from what God provides for His children – a perfectly faithful Father.
• Evangelism is the overflow of worship.
• Every season of growth is rewarded with pruning.
• Everything we do for people is just to get them to experience the Father. Striving for a Christian only exists in the absence of realizing the Father’s love.
• Faith doesn’t deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.
• Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.
• Faith is not the absence of doubt, it is the presence of belief.
• Faith is the offspring of grace.
• Faith moves Heaven, so that Heaven will move earth.
• Faith offends the stationary.
• Faith provides eyes to the heart. Faith sees.
• Fear often looks like wisdom to those in unbelief.
• For the believer most closed heavens are between the ears.
• Gifts are free, but their development is really costly.

Be sure to check out my guest post over at Revival Lifestyle blog on the 4 Steps to Supernatural Breakthrough in Prayer.

• …a man who kneels before God will stand before men.
• A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
• At the judgement seat the most embarrassing thing the believer will face will be the smallness of his praying.
• Even so, to our knees, O Christians! Desist the folly of sprinkling today’s individual and international iniquity with theological rose water! Turn loose against this putrefaction those mighty rivers of weeping, of prayer, and of unctionized preaching until all be cleansed.
• Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.
• Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen – degrees or no degrees.
• No man – I don’t care how colossal his intellect – No man is greater than his prayer life.
• Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great detergent.
• People are making salvation a mental decision instead of a heart decision. This is a shame.
• Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.
• Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!
• Prayer is the most unexplored area of the Christian life.
• Prayerlessness is disobedience, for God’s command is that men ought always to pray and not faint. To be prayerless is to fail God, for He says, Ask of me.

• A vacant chamber of prayer means that a believer has gone out of business religiously.
• Don’t ask someone who has a history of being negative for advice about your step of faith that doesn’t make sense.
• Faith thrives in an atmosphere of prayer.
• Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying.
• Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it.
• Pride infects all our prayers, no matter how well worded they may be.
• The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
• The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
• Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
• Units of prayer combined, like drops of water, make an ocean which defies resistance.
• We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.
• We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.
• We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer.
• “The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.”
• “Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.”

• Don’t plan with what is in your pocket; plan with what is in God’s pocket.
• Faith is a kind of immune system filtering out fears that otherwise would paralyze all activity.
• Faith is a leap into the light, not a step into the darkness.
• Faith is not presumption but assumption. You rightly assume that God will never let you down—and thus “enter into rest.”
• Faith is not the absence of fear; it is its conquest.
• Faith is the vital principle of prayer.
• Faith removes the mountains which unbelief creates.
• Go for the purposes of God, and the means to fulfill them will follow.
• God always hears prayer. He cannot make it obvious, but He hears every time we move our lips.
• God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.
• God answers prayer. For every deadline He will throw you a lifeline. Keep believing and be blessed!
• God has a thousand-year calendar with only one day marked on it.  It is marked TODAY.
• I don’t want to play with marbles … when God told me to move mountains!
• Jesus showed us how he lived as the Son of Man so that we would know how to live as the children of God.
• Prayer is faith in action.
• Praying for God to work is fine, but praying for Him to do what we should be doing is pointless.
• The Bible knows nothing about air in a jar, only wind in motion.  It knows nothing about the Holy Spirit except in action, in manifestation.
• The difficulty is not in knowing His will but doing it.

• [Jesus and the apostles] obviously believed that they knew the will of God was before they prayed the prayer of faith.
• [Meditation is] the detachment from the confusion all around us in order to have a richer attachment to God.
• Attuning ourselves to divine breathings is spiritual work, but without it our prayer is vain repetition.
• Christian meditation, very simply, is the ability to hear God’s voice and obey his word.
• Confession begins in sorrow, but it ends in joy.
• Do we really think we can experience integration of heart and mind and spirit with an erratic prayer life?
• Either option is painful. To not grow in His likeness is to not enjoy his fullness. When this happens, a haunting voice continues to ask, ‘What could I have become in him if I would have been a man of prayer?’ To grow in His likeness is to enjoy His fullness. When this happens, the priorities of the world begin to fade away.
• God delights in showing us exciting new alternatives for the future.
• God has ordained the Disciplines of the spiritual life as the means by which we place ourselves where He can bless us.
• I determined to learn to pray so that my experience confirmed to the words of Jesus rather than try to make his words conform to my impoverished experience.
• If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives.
• If we long to go where God is going and do what God is doing, we will move into deeper, more authentic worship.

• Circumstances are transformed when we think differently about them.
• Contentment is the peaceful happiness that comes when we are in awe of how God feels about us.
• Don’t pray out of need, but out of identity and inheritance. You’ll get a much bigger response.
• Don’t be in too much of a hurry until you can keep what you’ve got.
• Don’t let the enemy push you into a battle you are not ready for. Keep your focus on Jesus, and natural obstacles will arise because of that.
• Every believer already possesses the things they need to both get free and stay free. It’s already in us, put there by God Himself.
• Every time God speaks to you, it is to put a smile on your face.
• Faith in the nature of God is what keeps you moving even when situations are against you because you KNOW that God is faithful.
• God allows in His wisdom what He could easily prevent by His power.
• God always speaks to your potential, not your actual.
• God and the devil wants to do one thing in common to you; that is to kill you.
• God does not measure time, He measures growth.
• God is acquainted with grief, he does not live there.
• God is always going to focus on your new nature because He killed your old one.
• God is always relentless. He is relentless against the enemy. He is relentless towards his people in terms of his kindness and goodness.

• Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
• We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.
• We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
• We don’t want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of ‘good time’ is seldom in sync with ours.
• The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
• One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
• If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
  
• The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.
• There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
• Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.

I have collected over 1,600 quotes on prayer from preachers, theologians, and people following hard after God. Here is a small sample of how some of them defined prayer. Which one is the most encouraging and helpful to you?

1. Prayer at its best is living with mind and heart utterly open to God. – Albert D. Belden
2. Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives – A.W. Tozer
3. Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation and for me the most important part is listening to God’s replies. – Frank Laubach
4. Prayer at its holiest moment is the entering into God [where] miracles seem tame … by comparison. – A.W. Tozer
5. Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come. – Isaac Watts
6. Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God. – Soren Kierkegaard
7. Prayer is a work to which we must commit ourselves if we are to make sense of our lives in light of eternity. – Terry Glaspey
8. Prayer is about knowing God – not manipulating Him. – Tom Blackaby
9. Prayer is acceptable in any situation. – Kevin Shorter
10. Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books]. – A.W. Tozer
11. Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. – C.H. Spurgeon