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1 " Child of God, go listen to your Teacher. He tells you that when you go to private prayer, your first thought must be the Father. If your heart is cold, get into the presence of the loving Father. As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities you. Do not be thinking of how little you have to bring God, but think instead about how much He wants to give you. Just place yourself before Him and look up into His face; think of His love, His wonderful, tender, pitying love. It is the Father's loving heart that will give light and warmth to yours. (Andrew Murray) "
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2 " Prayer is the lifting up of the heart to God. All words of prayer, without this lifting up of the heart, are mere hypocrisy. Whenever, therefore, you attempt to pray, see that your one design is to commune with God, to lift up your heart to him, to pour out your soul before him. (John Wesley) "
3 " Blessed Jesus... teach me that prayer is not only a thing of times and seasons, but that is the outflowing of a life in You ... I am a child and have a child's liberty of access; in You I have the spirit of Sonship and of worship of truth... And let the infinite Fatherliness of God's heart be my joy and my strength for a life of prayer and of worship. (Andrew Murray) "
4 " Blessed is the man who is not staggered by God's delay or silence or apparent refusal; blessed is he who is strong in faith, giving glory to God. Such faith perseveres, if need be, and cannot fail to inherit the blessing. (Andrew Murray) "
5 " It is He who justifies us freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus (Romans 3:24). It is He who has blotted out all our sins, and healed all our infirmities. It is He who has received us as His own children, by adoption and grace. It is He who has begotten us again of incorruptible seed, and created us anew in Christ Jesus. Therefore we know that He hears us always. So we pray to Him without ceasing. We pray because we love, and we love Him because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19). (John Wesley) "
6 " People are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better people. (E.M. Bounds) "
7 " As we grow in the Christian life, the thought and the faith of the Beloved Master in His never-failing intercession becomes more precious, and the hope of being like Christ in His intercessions gains an attractiveness before unknown. (Andrew Murray) "