The things good Lord that we pray for give us the grace to labour for as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

Again Pray without ceasing 1 Thess. 517 and here the word to pray does not mean to beg or to plead as if God were unwilling to give--but simply to expose by faith every situation as it arises to the all-sufficiency of the One who indwells you by His life.

There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions like fingering prayer beads we create a quiet rhythm within our spirits. The beating of our heart is a repetition as is the rhythm of our breathing. All of life has its rhythms and the repetition of familiar prayers can bring our interior spirits into harmony with the Divine Heartbeat and the breathing of the Divine Christ.

Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. Doesnt matter now he whispered and felt that he could not cry out to God.William Drexler the Third

Regarding Jabezs Prayer I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many and the least of them are the fleshlier ones the really deadly ones are pride and intellectual arrogance. But I can honestly say I have never sunk to confusing prayer the souls colloquy with the Creator mortal mans dialogue with the Deity with magical incantation and the ritual of the spell.

If there is one thought with regard to the Church of Christ which at times comes to me with overwhelming sorrow if there is one thought in regard to my own life of which I am ashamed if there is one thought of which I feel that the Church of Christ has not accepted it and not grasped it if there is one thought which makes me pray to God Oh teach us by Thy grace new thingsit is the wonderful power that prayer is meant to have in the kingdom. . . . And that is the law of the kingdomthe King upon the throne the servants upon the footstool.

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

May your GodExtend to youThe same LoveAnd CompassionYou have ProvidedTo Others.

Jesus doesnt lead you out of your day He leads you into it.

One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese very close overhead calling calling their marvellous strange cry as they flew by. I think that is what our own best prayer must sound like when we send it up to heaven.