prayer

Love and Trust God, It's a life time commitment!!!

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.

God requires solitude and quiet _ this is part of the way He instructs us to pray to Him. We are obligated through our Love to worship Him as He sees fit. This is not the law. This is the language of Love: we love Him in the way He chooses for us to Love Him.

To love is to respect.

More than happiness or joy or lower blood pressure, the practice of God__ presence gives us meaning. Through this practice we become more closely aligned with Jesus and we learn His desire for us more completely.Life can be hard. The Practice of The Presence of God makes it easier. As Brother Lawrence said, __here is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.

Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.("The Undying Thing")

What's to rationalize? You mean you shouldn't pray if you haven't got your s--t together? This is another fairly common misconception of faith, which is that people who go to church, or people who pray, or people who talk about their religion must be, somehow more pious or ethically rigorous or have more morally cleansed lifestyle. The high correlation is supposed to be between faith and your search, the depth of your search, your willingness to try, your willingness to admit error, your hope and belief in the ultimate meaning and value of that search.' - Timothy Shriver

Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

If prayers emitted light, you'd see ours (Liberty students') from space.

When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.

Holiness grants us access to God's blessings, for without it,ACCESS DENIED!!!

Why bother praying? It does not matter if we have developed bad habits in limiting prayer to only asking for things, but prayer is much, much richer than that. By all means let's keep asking God to keep changing us, but let's also give praise and thanksgiving; crying out in lamentation; affirm our trust and faith; sing of our salvation; and simply wait upon the Lord. There is a way to pray for all seasons under the sun.

I see you kneeling in church__tained only by colored windows

The difficulties of life do not have to be unbearable. It is the way we look at them - through faith or unbelief - that makes them seem so. We must be convinced that our Father is full of love for us and that He only permits trials to come our way for our own good.Let us occupy ourselves entirely in knowing God. The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired