Prayer is a many fingeredand kaleidoscopic thingit foldsand unfolds inside of you. It entersthe many rooms you cannot enter.

Prayer is the hardest thing. And no one congratulates you for doing it because no one knows youre doing it and if things turn out well they likely wont thank God in any case. But I have a feeling that the hardest thing is what we all better be doing now and that its not only the best answer but the only one.

And this Ivan said to the children gathered around is who we are and this is what we do. Our family serves the Lord--no matter what comes--and when He answers our prayers no matter how he answers them--we give him praise.

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I rouse Emily to our guests as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand.

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.

For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair prayer simply means talking to God. This idea is enough to create great frustrations. If I present a problem I expect a solution if I formulate a question I expect an answer if I ask for guidance I expect a response. And when it seems increasingly that I am talking into the dark it is not so strange that I soon begin to suspect that my dialogue with God is in fact a monologue. Then I may begin to ask myself To whom am I really speaking God or myself

Somebodyd better pray for him dont you think He IS a lost soul.Pastor John Linton

She leaves my side and heads deeper intothe apartment singing if the spirit tries to hide its temple far away acopper for those they ask a diamond for those who stay.

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to Gods listening ears. Topics Prayer MeditationI am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood. Topics Salvation AtonementWhen the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer who knows how to pray and who really does pray and above all when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer he trembles as much as he ever did for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end. Topics Satan PrayerGods Word is pure and sure in spite of the devil in spite of your fear in spite of everything. Topics ScriptureDo not study commentaries lesson helps or other books about the Bible study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God and only the Bible is the Word of God. Topics The BibleAll that God is and all that God has is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do and as God can do everything prayer is omnipotent.