The Father Waits To Answer

Posted by jerrywhite on Aug 30, 2010

“One of the greatest mistakes that a Christian can make, is to imagine that increased social or spiritual activity can be any compensation for the lack of secret communion with God. A prayerful life is always a powerful life; and a prayerless life is always a powerless life. If we cannot pray aright, we really can do nothing aright; but how slow we are to believe that. We find a spiritual law at work in the uniform experience that the more we pray, the more we need to, and want to; and the less we pray, the less is the desire to do so….

The simple fact is, we must find time for prayer, or we shall perish: we must regard it to be as essential to our souls as is our daily dinner to our bodies. For every child of God some time each day must be reserved for private communion with Him; and we can better afford to drop anything in the day’s programme than that.”

W. Graham Scroggie

How to Pray, 11, 13

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“God is looking for prayers to answer. When He does so, it satisfies a part of His Fatherly nature. It allows Him to express His love as nothing else can do.

Your every prayer wafts like incense to heaven and elicits a response from a God who is hungry to move on your behalf.”

Nick Harrison

Magnificent Prayer, 339

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You do not have, because you do not ask.

James 4:2 (ESV)