If God is Your Father, Please Call Home.

    Prayer brings momentum. It lifts the heart above the challenges of life and gives it a view of God's resources of victory and hope. Prayer provides power, poise, peace, and purpose for a person's purpose, plans and pursuits. The most powerful energy anyone can generate is prayer energy. "The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray" (Corrie Ten Boom).

    "Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs and don't forget to thank Him for his answers. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand" (Phil. 4:6-7, LB). God is never more than a prayer away from you. When you feel swept off your feet, get back to your knees. "If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me" (Robert Murry M’Cheyne). Heaven is ready to receive all those who pray.

    Too many Christians don’t pray; they only beg.  Don’t beg, talk to God. "Time spent in communion with God is never lost" (Gorden Lindsay). "I have so much to do today that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer" (Martin Luther). When we pray, we link ourselves with God's inexhaustible power.
    
    "Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer" (Ed Cole). Remember prayers can't be answered until they are prayed. "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them and ye shall receive them" (Mark 11:24). "A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel" (Anonymous).

    When we pray, we must simultaneously be willing to take the action God requires as answers to our prayer. "Prayer is not monologue but dialogue; God's voice in response to mine is its most essential part" (Andrew Murray). The prayers a person lives on his feet are no less important than those he says on his knees. "Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers" (Austin O'Malley).

    The highest purpose of faith or prayer is not to change your circumstances but to change you. Pray to do the will of God in every situation, nothing else is worth praying for. "Do not have your concert and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God" (James Hudson Taylor). Prayer may not change all things for you, but it sure changes you for all things. Prayer is the stop that keeps you going. If God is your father, please call home.