The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

Jesus is the perfect nameHe who put away his fameAnd persecuted in shameThat you will never be the sameIts because of you and I He cameBelieve him or have yourself to blameIn the book of life have your name

Lord make me less like Jonah and more like Jesus. Save me from being the kind of person who cares more about my comfort my reputation and my success than I do about the people You are calling me to serve. Help me to keep all of my dreams on Your altar and be ready at all times to respond with faith and obedience to Your call.

There will be times in your life when you want to pray but feel so far from God that prayer seems impossible. The flesh will tell you that God is against you that you have gone too far and that He is no longer interested in you. But faith defies the flesh. It contradicts Satans lies. It rises up against defeat gloom and despair and finds hope in God.

Dont think too small about what God could do in your lifebe prepared for God to do a big thing.

When we say to people I will pray for you we make a very important commitment. The sad thing is that this remark often remains nothing but a well-meant expression of concern. But when we learn to descend with our mind into our heart then all those who have become part of our lives are led into the healing presence of God and touched by him in the center of our being. We are speaking here about a mystery for which words are inadequate. It is the mystery that the heart which is the center of our being is transformed by God into his own heart a heart large enough to embrace the entire universe. Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow all conflicts and agonies all torture and war all hunger loneliness and misery not because of some great psychological or emotional capacity but because Gods heart has become one with ours.

Dont be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you

Theres only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face the power of God.

The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.

We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts however assisted by grace the most we can do through genuine prayer is to make as much room as possible in ourselves and in the world for the kingdom of God so that its energies can go to work. All that we can show our contemporaries of the reality of God springs from contemplation Jesus Christ the Church our own selves.