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The Blessing of Prayer

Quote by Andrew Murray,

"The blessing of the prayer closet does not depend on the strong or fervent feeling with which I pray, but on the love and power of the Father to whom I entrust my needs.  I do not need to compel an unwilling God to listen to me with the multitude and urgency of my words."

Posted by Dave

His Presence

Quote: Larry Crabb

"We experience so little of the joy that sustains us in suffering and the hope that anchors us amid shattered dreams when we come to Him looking for the pathway out of hardships instead of the pathway into His presence."

  Posted by Dave

The Lever

Quote: Spurgeon, Morning and Evening -February 21, Evening

“Thoughts and reasonings are like the steel wedges which give a hold upon truth; but prayer is the lever, the prize which forces open the iron chest of sacred mystery, that we may get the treasure hidden within.”

Posted by Lance

Our True Work

Quote: Andrew Murray, Absolute Surrender pg. 108

“Many laborers in the vineyard have complained that they have too much work and no time for close communion with Jesus, that their usual work weakens their inclination for prayer, and that their too much interaction with men darkens the spiritual life. Sad thought, that the bearing of fruit should separate the branch from the vine! That must be because we have looked upon our work as something other than the branch bearing fruit.”

Posted by Lance

True Praying

Quote Power Through Prayer by E.M. Bounds

“Praying- true praying- costs and outlay of serious attention and time, which flesh and blood do not relish. Few people are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when inferior work will pass just as well in the market.”

Posted by Lance

In View

Quote by John Newton

By various maxims, forms and rules, That pass for wisdom in the schools, I sought my passions to restrain: But all my efforts proved in vain. But since my Savior I have known My rules are reduced to One, To Keep my Lord by faith in view, This strength supplies and motive too.

Posted by Ron

Opinions

Unknown

Nothing empowers a man like an opinion... Nothing frustrates a man more than reason.

Posted by Ron

Imitations

Unknown

Rudeness is a cheap imitation of power.

Posted by Ron

Slavery

Quote by Baltasar Gracian y Morales

"Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master."

posted by Cami

Gentle Spirit

Living Beyond Yourself by Beth Moore

"Gentleness is an inward grace of soul, it is the acceptance of God's dealings with us, considering them as good. Gentleness is submission, humility and teachability in the hardest tests of life."

posted by Brooke Heidi