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“God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.”
“To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.”
“Listen my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are...”
“Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.”
“Helplessness is unquestionably the first and the surest indication of a praying heart. ... Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray.”
“When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.”
“Do not pray by heart but with the heart.”
“The more helpless you are the better you are fitted to pray and the more answers to prayer you will experience.”
“Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly.”
“When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.”
“Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.”
“When my soul fainted within me ... my prayer came in unto thee.”
“He will regard the prayer of the destitute.”
“My strength is made perfect in weakness.”
“Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.”
“God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge but still within His love and power.”
“God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.”
“We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.”
“Trouble and prayer are closely related. . . . Trouble often drives men to God in prayer while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.”
“In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part without the sweet concurrence of the heart.”
