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Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. There's church and school and neighborhood and job and friends and recreation. And then the crises hit! Time for prayer seems an impossible luxury. As a pastor, Bill Hybels knows hundreds of people with schedules like this. Yet in his own life... read more
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This is a great book about prayer
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“When we work, we work; but when we pray, God works.”
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“God is interested in your prayers because He is interested in you.”
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“If we want to live in God's presence, we need to shut the world out and tune in to God (at least) once a day, every day, without fail.”
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“People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules.”
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“Pray regularly. Pray privately. Pray sincerely. Pray specifically. Matthew 6.”
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“Some people don't want to pay the price if developing good spiritual habits. Sadly, they end up paying the much higher price of spiritual disease and even death.”
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“If Christ's followers don't grow, it's because they do not make a habit of evaluating their lives.”
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“Don't bother fighting distractions, because you'll lose. Avoid them. Find a quiet place where you can pray without interruption.”
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“We just cannot grow with no structure, no sense of intentionality about our spiritual life.”
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“The more time you spend with Christ, the more you begin to act like him.”
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“Prosperity has ruined more people than servanthood and adversity ever will.”
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“God speaks to us through His Word, through people, and through direct leadings of the Holy Spirit.”
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“Listening to God speak to us through his Holy Spirit is not only normal; it is essential.”
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“The archenemy of spiritual authenticity is busyness.”
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“Some things will never be clear this side of eternity. Live by faith, not by sight!”
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“Whatever the details, old-fashioned sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever widening gap in our relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.”
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“The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.”
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'Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus' (Philippians 4:6-7).
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What I have discovered along the path of prayer-life cultivation is that the greatest thrill to a life of prayer is the qualitative difference made in one's relationship with God.
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If the request is wrong, God says, 'No.' If the timing is wrong, God says, 'Slow.' If you are wrong, God says, 'Grow.' But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, 'Go!'
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As you grow in prayer, God will reveal more of himself to you, breathing more of his life into your life.
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Before bringing a request to the Lord, it's a good idea to ask: If God granted this request, would it bring glory to him? Would it advance his kingdom? Would it help people? Would it help me to grow spiritually?
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I thank God every day for four kinds of blessings: answered prayers, spiritual blessings, relational blessings and material blessings.
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'The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth' (Psalm 145:18). • 'Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you' (Matthew 7:7). • 'I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry' (Psalm 40:1). • 'If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer' (Matthew 21:22).
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Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach. It's surprising to me how many are willing to settle for lives like that. Don't be one of them! Nobody has to live this way. Prayer is the key to unlocking God's consistent and prevailing power in your life.
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We pray because, by intuition or experience, we understand that perfect peace comes only through relating with the Peacemaker himself. But there is another reason. People are drawn to prayer because they know that God's power flows primarily to people who pray.
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Someone has said that when we work, we work, but when we pray, God works. His strength is available to praying people who are convinced to the core of their beings that he can make a difference. Skeptics may argue that answered prayers are only coincidences, but as an English archbishop once observed, 'It's amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.'
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First Sentence edit
From birth we have been learning th rules of self-reliance as we strain and struggle to achieve self-sufficiency.
Table of Contents edit
I. God calls us into his presence
1. God's presence, God's power
2. God is willing
3. God is able
II. God invites us to talk with him
4. Heart-building habits
5. Praying like Jesus
6. A pattern for prayer
7. Mountain-moving prayer
III. God breaks down the barriers between us
8. The hurt of unanswered prayer
9. Prayer-busters
10. Cooling off in prayer
IV. God speaks to our hearts
11. Slowing down to pray
12. The importance of listening
13. How to hear God's leadings
14. What to do with God's leadings
15. Living in God's presence
Questions for reflection and discussion
A guide for private or group prayer
Authors & Contributors edit
- Bill Hybels (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 248.32
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