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But if you pray long and boring prayers, God will give you some exciting answers. If you are willing to interrupt your sleep cycle, your dreams might just come true.
Without our contact with God we are nothing. With it, we are ‘a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor.’”2
Biblical traditions never go out of style.
but facing Jerusalem kept Daniel pointed in the direction of his dream.
Prayer is priming. Prayer puts us in a spiritual frame of mind. Prayer helps us see and seize the God-ordained opportunities that are all around us all the time.
One of the reasons that many people don’t feel an intimacy with God is because they don’t have a daily rhythm with God;
It’s hard to get up early, but that is what makes praying hard so hard.
Our biggest shortcoming is low expectations.
When you go into a meeting with a prayerful posture, it creates a positively charged atmosphere.
One important dimension of prayer is finding your own ritual, your own routines. Just like Daniel, you need to find your open window toward Jerusalem.
Drawing prayer circles is nothing more than laying our requests before God and waiting expectantly. If walking in circles helps you pray with more consistency and intensity, then make yourself dizzy; if not, then find something, find anything, that helps you pray through.
When I have a big decision to make, I circle it with a fast. It doesn’t just purge my body; it also purges my mind and spirit. When I need a breakthrough, I circle it with a fast. It doesn’t just break down the challenges I’m facing; it also breaks down the calluses in my heart.
if you obey God in the little things, then God knows He can use you to do big things!
Every Man’s Battle.
Some of us don’t start fighting the battle because we’re not sure we can win the war,
Jesus down when He needed them most. It didn’t just hurt Jesus; Jesus knew it would hurt them as well.
We see those three denials as three temptations, but maybe they were three opportunities to get it right.
“The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Is it ever! Never were truer words spoken.
The problem isn’t desire; the problem is power — more specifically, willpower.
Fasting gives you more power to pray because it’s an exercise in willpower.
The physical discipline gives you the spiritual disciplin...
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Without prayer, there is no escape. With prayer and fasting, there is no doubt. Like tandem staging, it will take you to spiritual heights you never imagined possible. You won’t just escape our atmosphere; if you pray a little harder and fast a little longer, you may just shoot the moon.
After all, you’ll never achieve the goals you don’t set.
Goals are well-defined dreams that are measurable.
Goals are dreams with deadlines. And these deadlines, especially if your personality is anything like mine, are really lifelines. Without a deadline, I would never accomplish anything because I’m both a procrastinator and a perfectionist. And that’s why so many dreams go unaccomplished. If you don’t give your dream a deadline, it will be dead before you know it. Deadlines keep dreams alive. Deadlines bring dreams back to life. I dreamed of writing a book for thirteen years, but the lack of a deadline nearly killed my dream. It wasn’t until I actually set a deadline, my thirty-fifth birthday,
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“Show me your vision, and I’ll show you your future.”
Mental rehearsal is just as important or more important as physical practice. It’s mind over matter.
If dreams are the destination, goals are the GPS that gets you there.
Our motivation for making more is giving more. After all, you make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
(1) family, (2) influential, (3) experiential, (4) physical, and (5) travel.
When you write down a goal, it holds you accountable.
A written prayer requires more faith simply because it’s harder to write it than to say it.
ebenezer. It means “thus far the LORD has helped us.”
journaling is one of the most overlooked and underappreciated spiritual disciplines.
I’m not looking for the path of least resistance;
I’m looking for the path of greatest glory.
One of the reasons we get frustrated in prayer is our ASAP approach. When our prayers aren’t answered as quickly or easily as we would like, we get tired of circling. Maybe we need to change our prayer approach from as soon as possible to as long as it takes.
When you live by faith, it often feels like you are risking your reputation. You’re not. You’re risking God’s reputation.
Drawing prayer circles isn’t about proving yourself to God; it’s about giving God an opportunity to prove Himself to you.
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
Sometimes we act as though God is surprised by the things that surprise us, but by definition, the Omniscient One cannot be surprised.
God answers prayer. Period. We don’t always see it or understand it, but God always answers.
“History belongs to the intercessors.”
A generation that was humiliated by its sin you saved by your prayer.
There is a Mother Dabney reading this book, I know it. There is a Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Bill Groves, and a Michael Hall.
All it takes is one person, one prayer.
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; God is great because nothing is too small.
Every number has a name, every name has a story, and every story matters to God.
The Hour That Changes the World and The Purple Pig and Other Miracles.
But just when we think we’re dreaming big, God has a way of reminding us that He is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine!
