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.

Its fairly simple. When can we pray All the time. When should we praise God Whenever we pray.

When I write that my own situation in those months of pain and decision can be described as prayer I do not only recall that during that time I sometimes read the Psalms and they became my psalms or that as I have also mentioned I occasionally cried Jesus and that name was my prayer but I mean that I also at times would shout Fuck and that was no obscenity but a most earnest prayerful utterance.In the final analysis no matter what the vocabulary of prayer or where muteness displaces words in prayer the contentwhat is communicated by a person in the world before Godin prayer is in each and every circumstance the same and it can be put plainly in one word HelpThat is the word of Gethsemanes prayer that is the word of the Lords Prayer that is the prayer when Christ repeats the Twenty-second Psalm from the cross.It is the prayer of Christ interceding for all people and it is the prayer of a human creature acknowledging Gods vocation in affirming the life which God has called into being.

Behind every successful womanthere isnt just a woman but a prayerful and hardworking woman.If not every married man would be successful.

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

When effective prayer meets a fervent spirit it builds a cloud of power that the enemy cannot withstand.

It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.

The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil who in order to disquiet and disturb the soul at times when it is at prayer or is striving to pray contrives to stir up these motions of impurity in its nature and if the soul gives heed to any of these they cause it great harm. For through fear of these not only do persons become lax in prayerwhich is the aim of the devil when he begins to strive with thembut some give up prayer altogether because they think that these things attack them more during that exercise than apart from it which is true since the devil attacks them then more than at other times so that they may give up spiritual exercises.