PRAYER-OBSTACLES
It is not
possible to live in sin, and at the same time, by communion with God, draw down
from heaven everything one needs for this life.
George
Muller
The Autobiography of George Muller, 1984, p.
42. All quotations taken from books published by Whitaker House are used with
permission of the publisher. Whitaker House books are available at Christian
bookstores everywhere.
In every good
work, we must depend on the Lord. If anyone rises so that he may give the time
which he takes from sleep to prayer and meditation, let him be sure that Satan
will try to put obstacles in the way.
George
Muller
The Autobiography of George Muller, 1984, p.
119. All quotations taken from books published by Whitaker House are used with
permission of the publisher. Whitaker House books are available at Christian
bookstores everywhere.
The
battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies:
wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His
word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.
We have to
pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
Our
trouble is that so often we come to God with our greeds
rather than our needs. Already having everything we need, we pray for what we
want. This becomes the source of our discontent: we desire things that God has
not promised.
Philip Graham Ryken
Give
Us Today Our Daily Bread from When You Pray by Philip Graham Ryken, © 2000, Crossway
Books, a division of Good News Publishers, Wheaton Illinois 60187, www.crosswaybooks.org, page 112.
The highest
position, in the greatest and most complicated monarchy, did not keep Daniel
from daily, frequent supplication.
Author Unknown
It was a
great breakthrough to realize that God was not necessarily leading me to pray
for everything with equal intensity. To try to do so will kill a prayer life.
To learn to let God set the agenda of our prayer life will resurrect it.
Bill Thrasher
A Journey to Victorious Praying, Moody Publishers, 2003, p. 54.
All
hindrance to prayer arises from ignorance of the teaching of God’s Holy Word on
the life of holiness He has planned for all His children or from an
unwillingness to consecrate ourselves fully to Him. When we can truthfully say to our Father,
“All that I am and have is Thine,” then He can say to
us, “All that is Mine is thine.”
The Kneeling Christian