#prayer

Spiritual giants are only willing, available and thirsty spiritual babies who paid the price for the prize, who waged a war for the victims to become victors, just like the courageous Davids that kill the big Goliaths. ↗

— Ikechukwu Joseph

#spiritual-warfare #warfare-prayers #courage

I once asked a rabbi in a large congregation which prayers he used with the dying. "You mean the Mourner's Kaddish?" he asked, referring to the prayer recited on behalf of the deceased. "No," I replied. "I mean the prayers said when a person is actually dying." "Oh," he replied. "I don't know. I've never seen anyone die." He had been a congregational rabbi for almost twenty years. "I only get called when it's time to do the funeral," he explained. Clearly there is much to learn within our traditional religious communities. ↗

— Megory Anderson

#prayer #death

Rock me sweet cradle of dreams. Lift me up upon my feet. I pray God of mercy just don't let me die here in my sleep. And the morning comes crashing through the wall like a run away train. Almost home. Almost gone. Free like a stone. ↗

— David Lynne Jones

#gratitude #hope #inspirational #prayer #rock-me

I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book in the right hands at the right time can save a marriage, avert a mistake, demand a decision, plant a seed, conceive a dream, solve a problem, and prompt a prayer. That is why I write. And that's why, for me, a book sold is not a book sold; a book sold is a prayer answered. I don't know the name and situation of every reader, but God does, and that's all that matters. ↗

— Mark Batterson

#god #prayer #spirituality #writing-life #dreams

Pay attention to what you pray for. Your prayers are not just a reflection of your desires and hopes; they are a guide for personal behavior. PRAY it, BE it, and you will SEE it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#desire #hope #life #pay-attention #pray

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#encouragement #faith #hope #joy #prayer

When God has specially promised the thing, we are bound to believe we shall recieve it when we pray for it. You have no right to put in an 'if', and say, 'Lord, if it be thy will..." This is to insult God. To put an 'if' in God's promise when God has put none there, is tantamount to charging God with being insincere. ↗

— Charles Grandison Finney

#god #prayer #faith

Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#life #pain #prayer #soul #trails

...pray for the grace to realize that no matter where you are, you are in the presence of the Lord. ↗

— Ann Spangler

#inspirational #prayer #faith

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#believe #faith #god #jesus-christ #prayer