As 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 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 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 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 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 HALLESBYIf God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.
OLE HALLESBYWithout faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces 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 HALLESBYWhen we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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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