Can our prayers change our circumstances? Absolutely! But when our circumstances don't change, it's often an indication that God is trying to change us.

Faith is unlearning the senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive.

Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice; the less you pray, the less you notice. It's as simple as that. Let me explain how

100 percent of the prayers I don't pray won't get answered.

Well-defined prayers give God an opportunity to display His power in new ways. Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in well-defined answers.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in well-defined answers.

Prayer is the way we take our hands off and place our children in the hands of God.

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked.

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.

Prayer is priming. Prayer puts us in a spiritual frame of mind. Prayer helps us see and seize the God-ordained opportunities that are all around us all the time.

There is nothing God loves more than keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams. That is who He is. That is what He does. And the bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.

They force me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.