Answers To Prayer Quotes Page 2

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more.

God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself... because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right.

If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.

This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

Ask and it shall be given you; Seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth; And he that seeketh, Findeth; and to him that knocketh It shall be opened. Aspire not to have more, but to be more.

God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer.

He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.

Remember that God, during your prayers, is watching for your affirmative answer to the question which He is inwardly asking you: 'Do you believe I am able to do this?' To which question you must from the depth of your heart reply, 'Yes, Lord'

When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious.

There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

Sickle cell anemia made me a real angry kid.

I was angry at God. I used to sit there and pray to God, please, take this pain away. It was nothing magical happening, there was nothing there. I felt like my prayers were not being answered. It made me real moody, I had an attitude problem growing up as a young child.

There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us;

God links up His power in answer to their prayers.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer.

In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.

By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself .

.. as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.

Give us this day our daily mask.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers.

Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.