Sometimes after making requests of God, it is important to notice what doesn’t happen. Absence is a significant result.
Prayer is paddling, and paddling is a repeated, purposeful, disciplined behavior in the direction that we need to go.
Prayer is not what we do to change God’s mind; it is what we do to change our minds.
God is not sitting around, baffled, uncertain and in need of someone to tell him what to do — we are.
Prayer is primarily alignment, us lining up with God.
The question isn’t, “Does God answer prayer?” The question is, “Do we answer God?”
Prayer isn’t so much asking; it’s cheering.
The best prayers contain only listening.
“If I should die before I wake,” is an adult fear that doesn’t belong in a child’s prayer.
“I’m sorry,” is a good beginning and ending to a good prayer.
Our first public prayer is simply the voicing of a conversation that has been going on silently for some time.
Prayer for an enemy is the beginning of peace for ourselves.
Most people pray on their knees only after life has kicked their feet out from under them.
