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Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

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Prayer, Real, Secret

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Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.

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Prayer, Home, Imperfection

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It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

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Promise, Praying, Gods Will

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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By prayer we couple the powers of Heaven to ou helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible, possible.

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Prayer, Couple, Angel

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As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.

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Morning, Prayer, Noon

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.

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Wise, Mistake, Giving

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

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Prayer, Produce, United

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To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts. It is not our prayer which moves the Lord Jesus. It is Jesus who moves us to pray.

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Jesus, Prayer, Moving

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

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Prayer, Play, Giving

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

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Prayer, Soul, Lasts

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.

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Jesus, Doors, Giving

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.

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Prayer, Heart, Names

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him, and He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.

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Prayer, Struggle, Soul And Body

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer life will either die from discouragement and despair or become simply a duty which we feel we must perform.

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Jesus, Prayer, Mean

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.

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Prayer, Attitude, Heart

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We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them.

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Selfish, Sacrifice, Blessing

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.

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Hands, Answers, Spirit

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

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Prayer, Giving, Waiting

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Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.

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Lying, Self, Circles

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We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.

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Expression, Giving, Doubt

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As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.

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Prayer, Fall, Winter

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Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

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Art, Prayer, Use

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.

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Prayer, Names, Promise

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

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Prayer, Soul, Quiet

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

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Friends, Powerful, Prayer

Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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Born: August 5, 1879
Died: November 22, 1961
Occupation: Theologian
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