Good soldiers know that if they dont recognize who their enemy is they are destined to lose the war. That is also true for those of us who battle in Gods army. Even though Jesus put the enemy under His feet and won the victory for us we still must move into that victory. There are still battles to be fought in prayer.

When you dont have the strength on your own. God has angels on assignment fighting for you. God has not forgotten about you. Youre coming out healed restored and transformed in Jesus name.

Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness it means prayerful action and patient perseverance...

Thats where thinking started where thinking stopped where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that just dreams just play. Shed been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father because God couldnt because she would never escape her need to love him.

When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker calls on Him to part the Heavens well we are undone.

When young the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older however Memory overtakes their Imagination outweighs it. But when they pray with ever increasing confidence they see with an ever-increasing and youthful Imagination and such burgeoning of possibility causes even their Memory to be lightened and redeemed. The scales fall from their eyes and they wait on their Father with the same childlike wonder that watches a sunrise to see what might happen this time.

Properly understood Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional the more they pray beyond their bounds they expand their vision beyond their resources their experiences their expectations.

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true If they prayed more they would have more belief.

True Prayer is the work of relationship where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him so that now when they talk about knowing God they mean more than I understand what youre saying about God but also It fits my experience of Him.

Faith is where they learn about their God but Prayer is where they explore Him.