Latest Anne Graham Lotz Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

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• 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

  Prayer, Trying, Devil

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• The ultimate goal for me in prayer is to draw near to God...to fall in step with him...to discern his will so that my life might be lived accordingly...to discover what burdens are on his heart that I might take them into my own heart, then pray them back to him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Prayer, Fall, Heart

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• God knows that sometimes we lack words to express our feelings, heart-cry, thoughts. And so within the Bible he includes people's prayers as models to help our own.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Prayer, Feelings, Helping

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• 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

  Believe, Blessing, People

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• Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone - with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Strong, Heart, Honor

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Prayer, Believe, Sin

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• 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

  Prayer, Communication, Reading

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• 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

  Prayer, Hard Work, Tired

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• 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, People, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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, People, Giving

  "Taking The Reins Of Billy Graham's Legacy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 10, 2011.

• For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth and give it. And so the expression, the gestures, the emphasis on words, all of that just comes.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Expression, Giving, Mouths

  Source: www.npr.org