"Unless We Pray'", by Maxie Dunnam

"Unless We Pray," by Maxie Dunnam

Not to pray is an act of self-robbery.
We are growing in prayer as our praying becomes an habitual attitude rather than occasional acts.
Prayer is a privilege, not a duty; not a burden to be borne, but a blessing to receive.
Prayer is a personal relationship in which you and God move from a hello of politeness to an embrace of love.
Would you like a daily friendship with God? Then pray.
Why do we neglect our noblest gift-the capacity to pray?
Be patient with yourself and your spiritual growth; God is patient with you.
All the gifts we receive in prayer are incidental and secondary to God's gift of Himself.
To be heard by God is an almost incomprehensible grace. Equally amazing is that God not only hears, God answers.
Spiritual discipline, including prayer, is the glue that holds our life together, and the staying power for our journey with Christ.
Prayer becomes most powerful when I am willing to give up control and surrender my future to God.
In relationship with God, change is not only possible, it is inevitable.
Things happen when we pray that do not happen if we don't pray.
All the resources of God are available to those who will enter into a praying relationship with God.
The house of prayer is not a shop where we go to bargain and barter for the gifts of God. It is the home of the Father, with whom we live, where all the treasures of His love and concern are ours for the receiving.
Abiding in Christ, allowing his Spirit to live in us, is our source of power.
The dominant desires of our lives are the petitions of our prayers.
Whatever fills our minds and hearts is the genuine expression of our prayers.
Prayer is habitually putting ourselves under the care of God, and surrendering our will to him.
Prayer is consciously relating all of life to God.
For a vital life of prayer, we must cultivate friendship with silence.
Prayer is not my idea; it is God's idea.
Our power depends on our prayer, and our prayer depends upon our faith.
Prayer is recognizing, cultivating awareness of, and giving expression to the indwelling Christ.
We need to work as though there were no such thing as prayer, and pray as though there were no such thing as work.
The Giver, not the gift, is what prayer is all about. It is enough to know that God is faithful.
God cannot tolerate sham, thus the first essential of prayer; be honest with yourself and with God.
When we respond to Jesus' call, "Take up your cross and follow me," we have begun to pray.
Prayer involves not only an effort to come to a deeper understanding of God, it involves a continuous quest of self-understanding.
We can be so busy talking to God that we never hear God speak.
Praying that God will substitute our wish for his plan is not only presumptuous, it is dumb.
In prayer, we do not seek a mystical experience; we seed repentance and conversion.
Intercessory prayer is love on its knees.
Prayer does not create the presence of God. It makes us aware of God's presence.
Love for others becomes in us the spirit of intercession. True love prays!
No person who prays can remain proud.
We say we do not pray because God is not real. A more realistic assessment is God is not real because we do not pray.
In prayer the open heart takes precedence over the open hand. Being with God is more to be sought than receiving from God.
There are only two legitimate positions for a Christian: kneeling in prayer, saying "Thy will be done"; or standing erect in readiness saying, "Here am I, send me."
Our prayer is part of the plan of God to work good for those who love him.
Prayer opens our hearts. God cannot do for a person with a closed heart what he can do with a person with an open heart.
It is dangerous to pray. In prayer God meets its where we are, but never leaves us as we are.
God cannot give his best to us until and unless we pray.

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