Study notes on prayer – Part 11 – Miscellaneous thoughts – Don Shenton

Prayer is the key to the day and the bolt to the night.
Prayer is more than the key to the day and the bolt to the night. Pray desperately, as your life depends upon it.

Watching makes it easier to pray and praying makes it easier to watch. It is useless to fight without praying but it is useless, too, to pray without fighting.

Ere you left your room this morning, did you think to pray?
If we pray for the harvest field, it will help us have a heart of compassion, even if we are no longer able to go.

If we would worship while we wait, we would not complain of waiting.

Things we live for determine what we pray for. Our lives give meaning to the words we pray.

Prayer should be the environment for God’s children: not an emergency measure, but a daily necessity. Not like a spare tire on a car!
Pray, pray more, pray every day, pray more earnestly, pray as if your life depended on it; because it does.

When we are unable to stand, it is because we haven’t been able to kneel.

In Ecclesiastes it mentions a time for many things, but not prayer. We must make time for prayer. As life went on, Solomon was failing to do that.
In the morning we are begging for His Spirit, and in the evening, pleading for His forgiveness.

We know not what we should pray for as we ought, but we know we ought to pray. It is our feeling of need and desperate weakness that appeals to God, not our words.
Prayer is like dressing, reading is like eating; we can go without eating. If we do we only rob ourselves. But we
would not think of going out without dressing.

Prayers of righteous people keep God’s servants where they are.
When you pray, pray! Don Garland said when he got up in the morning he would pray and go back to sleep. Likewise, if we pray and are just silent. The devil would like to sow other thoughts. Don said now he learned to do something first thing in the morning until he was fully awake. Then when he prayed, pray!
Put a praying person in an impossible position and he will come out a victor with a song.

Pray with desperation; fight with determination; serve without reservation. Casual reading (no meditation) and casual praying (no seeking) lead to casualties.

Very few people in the world today even think of God every day; even fewer pray to God; but those who wait on Him in prayer, He knows by name.

When we are praying it is hard to criticize. Prayer doesn’t prepare us for battle; it is the battle.