The basis of prayer is not what it costs us, but what it costs God to enable us to pray.

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint, and the lasting remembrance of our lives is of the Lord, not of us.

The reason for prayer is intimacy of relation with our Father.

The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer.

One of the reasons of stultification in prayer is that there is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God.

Ask God for what you want and do not be concerned about asking for the wrong thing, because as you draw ever closer to Him, you will cease asking for things altogether. "Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him" (Matthew 6:8). Then why should you ask? So that you may get to know Him.

Remember what makes prayer easy is not our wits or our understanding, but the tremendous agony of God in redemption...Prayer is not what it costs us, but what it cost God to enable us to pray.

Beware of "the cares of this world . . ." (Mark 4:19). They are the very things that produce the wrong attitudes in our soul. It is incredible what enormous power there is in simple things to distract our attention away from God. Refuse to be swamped by "the cares of this world.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God.

And now we understand why our Lord so emphasized the sin of worrying. How can we dare to be so absolutely unbelieving when God totally surrounds us? To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.