Don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34

God can delight in our courage to pray big prayers without necessarily giving us what we ask. Said another way, God can say yes to the heart of our prayer without saying yes to the request of our prayer. He will approve of the petitioner even when, for whatever reason, He can't approve the petition. I'm convinced God is more pleased

When we become psychologically dependent upon crisis, it actually becomes our life motivator, and if we don't have a present crisis, we'll learn to create one.

I'm certain of two things: prayerless lives are powerless lives, and prayerful lives are powerful lives.

This is the confidence we have before Him: whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 John 5:14

If we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked Him for. 1 John 5:15

Something I always try to practice is be anxious for nothing, but let your request be known to God.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

If I try to be fast then I'm no good, so it's better just to shut everything off and let instinct take over.

For me... I feel like gratitude has really helped me to keep perspective on everything. The gratitude of doing what I get to do. The gratitude for my everyday life. The gratitude for simple things.

It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.

BEYOND RESISTANCE The Higher Realm The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thoughts, words, and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and to bring yourself, your friends, and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage. —Xenophon, The Cavalry Commander