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Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
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Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in
the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to be
seen of men.
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Our prayers are heard, not because we are in
earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
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The battle of prayer is against two things in
the earthlies: wandering thoughts, and lack of intimacy with God’s character as
revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by
discipline.
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Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral
working of the Holy Spirit. Get a place for prayer where no one imagines that
that is what you are doing. Shut the door and talk to God.
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It will be a wonderful moment for some of us
when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early
days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing
way, and that God’s silence has been the sign of the answer. If we always want
to be able to point to something and say, This is the way God answered my
prayer, God cannot trust us yet with His silence.
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Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in
heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the
saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
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It is impossible to conduct your life as a
disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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It takes a tremendous amount of reiteration on
God’s part before we understand what prayer is. We do not pray at all until we
are at our wits’ end.
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Learn to be vicarious in public prayer. Allow
two rivers to come through you: the river of God, and the river of human
interests. Beware of the danger of preaching in prayer, of being doctrinal.
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God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption
and on no other ground.
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Prayer is not getting things from God, that is
the most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God; I
tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
Tonight we gather for our weekly Prayer Encounter at North Raleigh Church of the Nazarene beginning at 6:30. You are invited to do more than say you believe in the power of prayer - but gather with others to encounter God in prayer.
Tonight we gather for our weekly Prayer Encounter at North Raleigh Church of the Nazarene beginning at 6:30. You are invited to do more than say you believe in the power of prayer - but gather with others to encounter God in prayer.
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