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Too often we pray ASAP prayers — as soon as possible. We need to start praying ALAT prayers — as long as it takes.
pray about what to pray about. God will reveal a promise, a problem, or a person.
He prayed to God regularly. ACTS 10:2 Five words tell me everything I need to know about Cornelius: He prayed to God regularly.
The plans of God are only revealed in the presence of God.
You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.
Who you know is more important than what you know. This is certainly true for the children of God. Who you know — the heavenly Father — is far more important than what you know.
You’ve got to do God’s will God’s way.
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; God is also great because nothing is too small.
God wants us to get where God wants us to go more than we want to get where God wants us to go.
Our job is to hear His voice. His job is to establish our steps. And if we do our job, God will do His!
All of us want to do amazing things for God, but that isn’t our job; it is God’s job. Our job is simply to consecrate ourselves by yielding our will to His will. And if we do our job, God will do His job. If we consecrate ourselves to God, amazing things will happen.
The Israelites were camped on the eastern banks of the Jordan River when God gave them this command: “Consecrate yourselves.” And because they obeyed, God delivered on the promise. He parted the Jordan River, and the Israelites walked through on dry ground. We’d rather build a boat or build a bridge.
We need to work like it depends on us, but we also need to pray like it depends on God.
Consecration is a complete surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ. We relinquish everything to God — our time, talent, and treasure.
Consecration means we no longer call the shots. We give God veto power. His word is the final word, whether it’s Holy Scripture or the Holy Spirit. Either way, it’s no longer a selfish spirituality that asks God to serve our purposes. It’s all about serving His purposes so that His glory is revealed. Consecration is death to self.
We’re often so anxious to get out of difficult, painful, or challenging situations that we fail to grow through them. We’re so fixated on getting out of them that we don’t get anything out of them.
We’re so focused on God changing our circumstances that we never allow God to change us! So instead of ten or twenty years of experience, we have one year of experience repeated ten or twenty times.
If we’re being completely honest, most of our prayers have as their chief objective our own personal comfort rather than God’s glory.
But when our circumstances don’t change, it’s often an indication that God is trying to change us.
The last two words of Mark’s gospel are “signs following.” We wish it said “signs preceding.” We want God to go first. That way we don’t need to exercise any faith at all. But we’ve got it backward. If we want to see God move, we need to make a move.
God-ideas are only revealed in the presence of God.
prayer is the difference between the best you can do and the best God can do. And that’s a big difference!
Prayer is not a monologue; it’s a dialogue. We speak to God with everything from words to groans to thoughts. And God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.
God stretches your faith so you can dream bigger dreams.
I don’t pretend to understand where the sovereignty of God and free will of humans meet, but it motivates me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.
The only thing I can predict with absolute certainty is this: the more you pray, the more you will experience holy surprises.
But it’s the prayers you pray when you feel like you want to quit praying that can bring the greatest breakthroughs.
I believe that God never overpromises or underdelivers. He always delivers on His promises, but He does it on His timeline!
If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting for the rest of your life.
The problem is that most of us want the twenty-five-year plan before we’re willing to step out in faith.
I wonder if we’re so afraid of doing the wrong thing that it keeps us from doing the right thing.
Faith is not faith until it is acted on.
God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.
I felt underqualified and overwhelmed, which put me right where God wanted me.
It is how we learn to live in raw dependence, and raw dependence is the raw material out of which God performs His greatest miracles.
When the Israelites circled Jericho, they had no idea how God would give them the city. But they didn’t let what they didn’t know keep them from obeying the command they had been given. So they circled the promise over and over and over again.
Don’t seek answers; seek God. And the answers will seek you.
We work as though the world revolves around us and relies on us. Maybe it’s time to rest as though the world revolves around and relies on the Creator who hangs the stars and spins the planets.
we have too much to do not to pray! Martin Luther once declared, “I have so much to do47 that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” The more you have to do, the more you have to pray!
You are called to be a prophetic voice to the people God places in your life. But the key to discovering your prophetic voice is cultivating a prophetic ear. If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.
We live in a culture in which everybody wants to be heard, but many people have nothing to say.
But if you aren’t willing to listen to the convicting voice of the Spirit, you won’t hear His comforting voice, forgiving voice, or merciful voice either.
Prayer is the way we write the future. It’s the difference between letting things happen and making things happen.
The Holy Spirit can redeem your anxious thoughts by using them as prayer triggers. Think of worry as a prayer alarm.
The best prayer is a well-lived life, day in and day out.
If you want God to do something new in your life, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. My advice is simple: do something different. And you’ll see what a difference it makes!
Would Peter have disowned Jesus if he had been praying instead of sleeping? Maybe he let Jesus down because he wasn’t prayed up?
If you double-circle things with prayer and fasting, don’t be surprised if you receive a double blessing!
I wonder how many of our prayer requests are within our own power to answer? Yet we ask God to do what we can do ourselves.
And then we wonder why God doesn’t respond. Maybe it’s because God won’t do for us what we can do for ourselves. God isn’t honored by prayers that are within the realm of human possibility; God is honored when we ask Him to do what is humanly impossible.
