PRAYER

This past week our family was in “travel mode”. Our son and daughter-in-law were in San Francisco for a few days, our daughter was in Philadelphia visiting friends, my husband and I traveled to Houston to watch our five grandchildren while mommy and daddy were in San Francisco, and our other son and daughter-in-law and my Mom and Dad remained here at home.

As I prayed for safety for everyone, I pictured my family literally scattered from one end of the country to the other, separated by hundreds of miles – so far apart. Yet we were all just as close to the Father as we have always been – as close as a whisper. He is never far from us no matter where we are. Prayer brings us instantly into His presence.

This Thursday we will celebrate the National Day of Prayer. I thought I would share some thoughts on prayer:

“God warms His hands at man’s heart when he prays.” – John Masefield

“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.” – Corrie Ten Boom

“Work, work, from morning until late at night. In fact, I have so much to do that I shall have to spend the first three hours in prayer.” – Martin Luther

“Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God’s voice is its most essential part. Listening to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.” – Andrew Murray

“Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.” – J. Sidlow Baxter

“God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.” – Anslem of Canterbury

“The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity…if we want to see mighty
wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and
disappointment, let us answer God’s standing challenge, ‘Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.'”
– J. Hudson Taylor

“Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man, and inhaling the spirit of God.” – Edwin Keith

Prayer – conversation with the Living God. It is an awesome privilege. This Thursday we can join our hearts with thousands of others to pray for one another and for our country. We are blessed to have that freedom; blessed to have a God who hears and answers prayer:

“Then if my people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.” II Chron. 7:14 (NLT)

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