Kindle Notes & Highlights
(Anger is fuel to weary, frustrated people.)
Prayerless people contract this disease through the twin viruses of doubt and apathy.
Speaking of the heart, prayerless people long ago compromised their immune system by allowing lesser loves to consume their every waking moment. We talk to those we love, so our silence with God is the measure of our loveless condition.
Each generation must build its altars and illuminate the darkness.
#prayer
The truism is true: the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Our greatest danger, as noted by Charles Hummel in his "Tyranny of the Urgent," is letting the urgent things crowd out what we view to be necessary. Lesser priorities seek to occupy the place God once held supreme in our lives. And we are all the poorer for it.
#priorty
The cure for acute prayerlessness is intentional prayerfulness.
#prayer
Where there is much prayer, there will be much of the Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer. --Andrew Murray5
There have been revivals without much preaching, but there has never been a mighty revival without mighty prayer. --R. A. Torrey8
God invites us into a relationship, not a formula. He seeks our companionship.
God promises to be our guide; He does not promise to be our map.
God promises to reveal His path; He does not promise us...
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God promises a process to mold us; He does not promise t...
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Prayer is not optional; prayer is essential.
First, she discovered she didn’t pray more because she was not desperate enough.
Then, she also sensed an independent spirit. She simply wanted to do things on her own.
Self-confidence evaporates when we grow reliant upon God.
#prayer
The Jews teach there are ten songs (shirot, Hebrew) in Scripture. Each was sung by a different person for a different reason: 1) Adam sang when his sins were forgiven; 2) Moses sang at the parting of the Red Sea; 3) Israel sang over a well of water; 4) Moses sang when he climbed Mt. Nebo; 5) Joshua sang at the standing still of the sun; 6) Deborah and Barak sang at Sisera's defeat; 7) Hannah sang when she was given Samuel, 8) David sang upon the consolidation of the kingdom of Israel; 9) Solomon sang under the anointing of the Spirit of prophecy; and 10) The Song of the Messiah yet to be sung.
#sing
When people have nothing but God, they are better off than those with everything but God. For without Him, what is this vapor of life?
#vapor
The Western mind looks at things through the lens of the individual. In contrast, the Eastern mind looks at things through the lens of the community.
#view
Provision is to the outward man what forgiveness is to the inward man. We need both.
If you and I do not have someone to whom we can say, “I’m struggling,” then we are in desperate shape.
#help
Over time, I have learned to love my "broken self" more than my "ideal self." My brokenness requires me to be real, and that makes room for God and others. My idealness permits me to remain unreal, and that pushes God and others away. I must stay broken before God.
#broken
“Always patient... always kind... never boastful... never rude... always ready to excuse... always ready to trust... always ready to forgive... always ready to love your enemies... always ready to pray for your persecutors... always ready to have compassion.”
Each of these three spiritual disciplines forces us to answer a simple question: “Do we trust God?” If we trust Him to provide, then giving is not an issue. If we believe Him to direct our lives, then we pray. If we rely on Him to sustain and deliver us, then we fast.
Our words should be thoughtful, even if fewer. Better to have fewer words with more meaning than to have many words that mean nothing.
Something important should be stated here. God makes many promises; many will never be fulfilled. The reason is that all promises—universal or specific, conditional or unconditional—must be saturated with prayer. Heaven’s shelves are filled with promises for which no one has prayed or is praying.
#promises
As we ascend that staircase in prayers, God’s messengers descend toward us.
Praying with a burden or under a burden indicates there is a desperate, acute need that must be carried to the Lord in urgent, desperate prayer.
Great testimonies of provision and deliverance emerge from intercessions.
We should seek to give thanks when we grow depressed, confused, sorrowful, sick, lonely, overwhelmed, or distracted. By giving of thanks, we turn our eyes to Jesus, and we see Him as our constant Hope.
Prayer is not our destination; it is the means to our Destination.
#Destiny
Surrender is heaven’s password.
Without the help of heaven, we are not strong enough, good enough, or smart enough to resist the enemy of our soul.
Submission, not resistance, is the key to success.
The degree of our victory is in direct proportion to our surrender.
We either believe that we are in control of our lives, or Jesus is.
Without faith, it’s not only impossible to please God, it’s impossible to let go. Faithless people trust in themselves, chart their own courses, try to figure things out on their own. People with faith simply let go believing Hands are reaching out to us.
Brokenness is at the heart of surrender.
We admit our inabilities and insecurities by casting our cares on Him.
Our journey in God did not start with self-sufficiency; it began with surrender.
Surrendering to God is painful, but far more painless than the alternative. It’s like falling on the boulder or having the boulder fall on you.
The people who landed at Plymouth Rock and elsewhere were not only in search of religious freedom, they were in search of authentic Christianity.
Every great movement can be traced to a kneeling figure. --Dwight L. Moody61
The Name of Jesus is not merely a closing salutation to prayer. It is the signed blank check to all Heaven has.
I well recognize we can call Him Friend, Light, and Strength, but only the Name of Jesus has all power and authority. Pray the Name!
Consider the brazen serpent Moses made. It was created for a specific moment and served a purpose. Yet, it was kept, revered, and eventually drew worship from Israel. It was momentary (i.e., Nehushtan, “only a bit of brass”), but Israel tried to make it into something lasting (Numbers 21:9; 2 Kings 18:4).
Preach in Jesus name, teach in Jesus name, Heal the sick in His name and always proclaim It was Jesus’ Name in which the power came; Baptize in His Name, enduring the shame, For there is vict’ry in Jesus’ name. -- G. T. Haywood
Prayerlessness is a declaration of independence from God. Prayerfulness is a declaration of dependence on God.
A prayer delayed is not a prayer denied. Keep expecting.
Tears are the silent, eloquent testimonies to God’s nearness.
