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 HALLESBYThe quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities
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 HALLESBYTo pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.
OLE HALLESBYWithout faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.
OLE HALLESBYPrayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.
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 HALLESBYMy helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
OLE HALLESBYBy prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible.
OLE HALLESBYOnly he who is helpless can truly pray.
OLE HALLESBYThe secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.
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 HALLESBYPrayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
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 HALLESBYThe Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.
OLE HALLESBYIt is God’s will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.
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