Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required. Anne Graham Lotz More Quotes by Anne Graham Lotz More Quotes From Anne Graham Lotz For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone? Anne Graham Lotz christian god life One of the most effective ways to pray is to ask God to give you a promise from his Word concerning whatever it is you're praying for. Then hold him to his Word as you pray it back to him. It's what has been called "reversed thunder." God keeps his Word, and basing our prayer on his Word gives our prayers strength and confidence because we know we're asking for something God wants to give us. Anne Graham Lotz prayer giving promise Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing. Anne Graham Lotz sunshine adversity blessing Don't concentrate on what you lack, concentrate on what you have. Then give all of it to Jesus for His use. Anne Graham Lotz use giving jesus The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in prayer; he will try to confuse or contradict the content of our prayers; he will do his best to distract and/or divert us in prayer so that we're crippled by inconsistency. Anne Graham Lotz devil prayer trying It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity. Anne Graham Lotz sacrifice time meaningful Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God. Anne Graham Lotz healthy problem life-is I believe our nation is in deep trouble. We seem to have lost our identity because in many ways we're separated from God. I believe it's imperative that God's people pray as Daniel did, or our nation may unravel morally and spiritually to the point of no return. I believe we desperately need the blessing of God. Anne Graham Lotz blessing believe people If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer. Anne Graham Lotz pain hope jesus There is nothing at all that God won't forgive Anne Graham Lotz forgiving My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him. Anne Graham Lotz preparation eye imagination When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things. Anne Graham Lotz life-is-good pain believe When your spirit is heavy, when your heart is broken, when your burdens seem unbearable - trust Him. Look to Him. Anne Graham Lotz christian god heart Communication with God is vital to a vibrant relationship with him. We will never really know God in an intimate, personal relationship if we don't talk to him. Half of our communication with God is listening to what he has to say through his Word, which is why reading our Bibles is so important. The other half of communication is talking to him, which is prayer. Prayer is also important because the Bible commands us to pray. Anne Graham Lotz communication reading prayer The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there. Anne Graham Lotz secret father son When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else. Anne Graham Lotz storm strong world The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people. Anne Graham Lotz audience-of-one giving people God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him. Anne Graham Lotz encouraging encouragement change The kind of trust God wants us to have cannot be learned in comfort and ease. Anne Graham Lotz comfort want ease When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway. Anne Graham Lotz teenager trying people
