Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.
OLE HALLESBYWithout faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.
OLE HALLESBYTo pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.
OLE HALLESBYPrayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.
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 HALLESBYBy prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible.
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 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 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 HALLESBYThe quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities
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 HALLESBYHelplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
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 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 more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
OLE HALLESBYPrayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.
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.
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