If weak in prayer,
we are weak everywhere.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond
All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, “Get me home alive, God, and I’ll seek you and serve you.” I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I’d made to God.
~ Louis Zamperini, 1917-2014, distance runner, evangelist
Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn’t act the way we want God to, and why I don’t act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
~ Philip Yancey, 1949- , American author
We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.
~ Jen Pollock Michel, author and contributor to Christianity Today
What this means is that prayer can be learned only in the vocabulary and grammar of personal relationship: Father! Friend! It can never be a matter of getting the right words in the right order. It can never be a matter of good behavior or proper disposition or skillful manipulation. It can ever be a matter of acquiring some information about God or getting in touch with myself. It is a relationship, exclusively and unendingly personal. And so it is imperative that we watch our language gauge, for the personal is constantly and increasingly in danger of suppression by the arrogant and blasphemous claims of technology, the very apotheosis of the impersonal.
~ Eugene Peterson, 1932-2018, minister and author, Tell it Slant
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. … See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
~ Oswald Chambers, 1874-1917, teacher & evangelist
Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.
~ Robert McCheyne, 1813-1843, Scottish minister
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
~ Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher, theologian
This Sunday’s bulletin coming soon.