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Prayer

• We have to stop looking at prayer as the spare tire in the trunk and start seeing it as the steering wheel.
  
  
• The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
  
  
• Groanings that can’t be uttered are often prayers that can’t be refused. [Phillips Brooks]
  
  
• All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live. [A.W. Tozer]
  
  
• I’ve discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make time. Whatever keeps me from prayer, solitude, and the Bible, however good it appears, is my enemy if I am to be God’s devoted friend and follower. [Tommy Barnett]
  
  
• To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men? [Dr. Will Bruce]
  
  
• Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them, and they are unable to cope. We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes, moving from surface praying to in-depth praying. We need to pray both defensively and offensively. [Dr. Will Bruce]
  
  
• You can preach and still go to hell, but you cannot pray and go to hell. [Pastor Richard Anyiam]
  
  
• There is a difference between believing that prayer is important and believing it is essential. 'Essential' means there are things that will not happen without prayer. [Dee Duke]
  

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