My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. … Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
OLE HALLESBYMy praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. … Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
OLE HALLESBYA humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one’s helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother’s care.
OLE HALLESBYWe need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.
OLE HALLESBYThe quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities
OLE HALLESBYPrayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.
OLE HALLESBYNothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer life will either die from discouragement and despair or become simply a duty which we feel we must perform.
OLE HALLESBYPraise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.
OLE HALLESBYBy prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible.
OLE HALLESBYHelplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.
OLE HALLESBYIt is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.
OLE HALLESBYOur prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him, it is His responsi-bility.
OLE HALLESBYOnly he who is helpless can truly pray.
OLE HALLESBYIt is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.
OLE HALLESBYHelplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
OLE HALLESBYAs white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.
OLE HALLESBYIt is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
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