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Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living QUOTES

Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living QUOTES

1 " We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

2 " God’s blessing is often dependent on our obedience. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

3 " the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

4 " For pastors, no asset is more precious than the consistent prayers of God’s people. However, one major problem in the church today is that people spend more time criticizing their pastors than they do praying for them. More than ever, God’s servants need to be upheld in prayer. More than ever they need utterance, boldness, and clarity in presenting the gospel. It is time we stopped criticizing and started interceding. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

5 " If we refuse God’s answers when they don’t fit in with our plans, then we are trying to use God for our purposes. But if we graciously accept His answers—no matter what they are—He will use us for His glory. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

6 " But the Father never allows difficulty just for the sake of difficulty—there is always a higher purpose involved. The problem is we cannot always identify God’s higher purpose in the midst of our trials. That’s when we must exercise our faith by waiting on His word to us. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

7 " But God’s Word has another use in the context of spiritual warfare and warfare prayer. It is a weapon to be used against our adversary—Satan. This weapon won’t do us any good if we don’t know how to use it. We must direct the Word of God at Satan in a spiritual attack. There are specific Scriptures that deal with specific attacks of Satan. We are to saturate our prayers with these passages. In this way we can bind Satan from our lives and from the lives of others. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

8 " For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. (2 Cor. 10:4–5) "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

9 " A stronghold is an area of sin that has become part of our lifestyle. It may be a harmful habit (drugs, fornication, smoking), or it may be an attitude (rejection, loneliness, worry, doubt). We use a whole arsenal of rationalizations and speculations to support these habits or attitudes. But the knowledge on which these strongholds are based directly opposes God’s truth (2 Cor. 10:5). "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

10 " To find victory, you must ask God to tear down this stronghold. Name it out loud. Rebuke the lies that Satan has used against you, and tell God that you now accept the truth of His Word. A good Scripture to claim would be Romans 8:1. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

11 " This principle of overcoming strongholds can be applied as we pray for other saints as well. But at some point in time, others must take the responsibility for renewing their own minds—we cannot do it for them. We can pray that God will tear down a specific stronghold in their lives, and He will do it. But if they don’t rebuke the lies that protected that stronghold, the stronghold will come back. Only application of the truth can stand against Satan’s lies. One evening I shared with my son that God had shown me a stronghold of fear in my life. He smiled and said that the Lord had revealed this problem in my life to him the week before. He had been praying that God would tear down this "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

12 " Paul wrote, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit [Himself] maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered” (Rom. 8:26). The word infirmities does not mean illnesses; it refers to spiritual weaknesses—our inability to pray from God’s perspective. In other words, the Spirit will pray through us when we don’t understand what to pray, and at the same time He will give us understanding. So when we pray without understanding, we aren’t wasting our time, as Satan would have us believe. On the contrary, God is honoring "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

13 " We’re more intent on getting out of our circumstances than we are on finding out what great things God wants to show us. But the Father never allows difficulty just for the sake of difficulty—there is always a higher purpose involved. The problem is we cannot always identify God’s higher purpose in the midst of our trials. That’s when we must exercise our faith by waiting on His word to us. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

14 " Lord, thank You that You are omnipotent. Thank You that You are omniscient and know everything I am about to tell You. Thank You that You are omnipresent, and You are not separated from me. As I come into Your presence, I humble myself before Your throne to thank You for Your holiness, Your forgiveness, and Your mercy. I acknowledge You as the great Creator, Sustainer, and Lover of mankind. Father, I am coming to You, recognizing Your greatness and Your holiness. I bow before You as Your child, knowing that You are more than sufficient to meet my needs. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

15 " we have already asked Him to do. In the same way, there is no need to beg Him to do what He has already promised to do. Instead, we should thank Him for it. We should thank Him for the wisdom we are going to experience in our prayers. We should thank Him for granting our desires, meeting our needs, and giving us direction. Then we must wait. More asking will show a lack of faith. It is at this point, however, that our faith will be tested the most. We may want to add “if it is Your will” to our prayers, just in case we misunderstood. This is why basing our prayers on Scripture is so important—it gives us a foundation. God’s Word is unchanging truth. It is in the protected harbor of His Word that we bring our faith to rest. When we go to God, instead of asking, “Lord, please do this and that,” let’s ask Him to show us how to pray. Let’s ask the Holy Spirit to pray through us from beginning to end. Then we can be assured of praying according to His will. We will "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

16 " But not one shred of scriptural evidence shows that God will say yes to all of our prayers just because we’re living right. God is sovereign. He has the right to say no according to His infinite wisdom, regardless of our goodness. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living

17 " God is more interested in our character, our future, and our sanctification than He is in our momentary satisfaction. His answers are always an act of grace, motivated by His love. "

― Charles F. Stanley , Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living