Faith & Trust
Prayer is not extracting favours from a reluctant God. It is not passing a check in a bank window for money.
The greatest thing any one can do for God and for man is to pray.
A man’s whole life is utterly dependent upon the giving hand of God. Everything we need comes from Him.
Communion is fellowship with God. Not request for some particular thing; not asking, but simply enjoying Himself, loving Him, thinking about Him, how beautiful, and intelligent, and strong and loving and lovable He is; talking to Him without words.
Our friendships, ability to make money, health, strength in temptation, and in sorrow, guidance in difficult circumstances, and in all of life’s movements; help of all sorts, financial, bodily, mental, spiritual—all come from God, and necessitate a constant touch with Him.
God will do in answer to the prayer of the weakest one here what otherwise he could not do.
If prayer be partnership in the highest sense then the same spirit must animate both partners, the human and the divine, if the largest results are to come.
Prayer is working together with God. Prayer is pulling with God in His plan for a world.
God takes the initiative in all prayer. It starts with Him.
Prayer does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action. Everything that ever has been prayed for, of course I mean every right thing, God has already purposed to do.
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