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Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God QUOTES

1 " Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the King and keep it.1 —CORRIE TEN BOOM "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

2 " The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation—lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on—to have a real prayer life. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

3 " I have found that people are best motivated to sustain night-and-day intercession when they understand that God delights in them as a bridegroom delights in his bride (vv. 4–5). In fact, one reason people burn out in intercession and ministry to others is that they lack the intimacy with God that comes from encountering Jesus as their Bridegroom God who delights in His relationship with them. In other words, the revelation of the church as Jesus’s cherished bride is essential to keeping our hearts alive through the years as we diligently do the work of the kingdom. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

4 " When we meet the great men and women of the Bible face-to-face, we may be surprised to discover just how much like us they are. It is faith in a great God that makes a great man or woman of God. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

5 " Our living condition is how much we actually experience of that which is freely available. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

6 " We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

7 " We will never be completely satisfied by our achievements, skills, wealth, fame, pleasures, or possessions. Why? Because the human heart was created to need more than what is available to us in the natural realm. Only the eternal, supernatural God can fill our longings. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

8 " This prayer for the Holy Spirit to strengthen the inner man of believers is one of the most important prayers recorded in the Scripture, and it is vital that we understand it if we want to grow in prayer. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

9 " To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 —JOHN CALVIN "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

10 " prayer flows best from those who are in strong kingdom relationships—sharing deeply with one another, partnering together in kingdom activities, and relating to one another in humility, honor, and forgiveness in the grace of God. Paul admonishes us in Colossians to “put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another.” Then he adds, “But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection” (Col. 3:12–14). "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

11 " Beloved, our private times of prayer and our public prayer meetings may not move us, but they move the angels, and more importantly, they move the heart of God. Never measure your prayers by what you feel; when we pray in agreement with God’s will, our “weak prayers” move the heart of God even if they do not move ours. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

12 " Passion is not about energy and volume; it is about being engaged from the heart "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

13 " Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one’s life. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

14 " He has joy in our friendship and in our partnering together in the work of the kingdom with Him. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

15 " God’s grace is sufficient when we come up short in our obedience, but it is important to call sin “sin” and declare war on it. Those who love God in truth will set their hearts to live in a spirit of obedience in every area of their lives—including their use of time, money, and words, and in what their eyes look at. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

16 " Jesus does not want us to walk in a false humility that minimizes how much He enjoys loving us or how much He wants us to enjoy being loved by Him. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

17 " It is not enough to desire to pray; we must resolutely stay with it. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

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― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

19 " Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God

20 " Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with us. "

― Mike Bickle , Growing in Prayer: A Real-Life Guide to Talking with God