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.

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Wake Up At The Most Silent Time And Read The BIBLE.

Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.

Thats a stupid name Whirly-gig is much better I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say Im going to fly in my Model-A1.People would much rather say Get in my whirly-gig. And thats what youshould name it.

For what is the amount of all his prayers but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind and act otherwise than he does It is as if he were to say thou knowest not so well as I.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

It occurred to him to say the viddui the prayer before death. He struggled to remember it. Blessed are You who has bestowed me with many blessings. May my death atone for all I have done . . . and may I shelter in the shadow of Your wings in the World to Come.

Work and pray live on hayYoull get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill The Preacher and the Slave

Through prayer religion insists things which cannot be realized in any other manner come about energy which but for prayer would be bound is by prayer set free and operates in some part be it objective or subjective of the world of facts.