Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants.
– Shannon L Alder
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- But prayer isn’t asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right. – Max Lucado
- Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. – Mother Teresa
- When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking. – Shannon L Alder
- One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves. – Marcel Proust
- If a woman does not want she actually wants, if she wants she certainly wants it! – Thiruman Archunan
- There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal. – Robin Hobb
- Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. – Lesa Howard
- That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to? – Neal Stephenson
- Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering. – Sharon Salzberg
- Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby – Agona Apell
- Asking ‘why’ only makes us feel hopeless. Asking ‘how’ points the way forward, and shows us what we must do – Sue Klebold
- You’re not asking me for advice, you’re asking me for permission. – Steve Maraboli
- Ethan: -œI’m not asking you to continue that night.-Karis: -œThen what are you asking?-Ethan: -œFor a whole new night. – Monique DeVere
- When I ask you to be my valentine, I’m not asking you to love me. I’m simply asking you to accept tokens of my love for you. – Richelle E Goodrich
- It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know. – Stormie Omartian
- Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends. – Shannon L Alder
- When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants. – Shannon L Alder
- When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants. – Shannon L Alder
- Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake. – Shannon L Alder
- If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don’t they will find an excuse. – Shannon L Alder
- Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith. – Elizabeth George
- Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God’s power. – Elizabeth George
- Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God’s orders. – Billy Graham
- Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend’s prayer because she’s asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship. – jonathon acuff
- The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God. – David Platt
- I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for God. There was a difference. – Shannon L Alder
- Arrange your life in such a way that you don’t make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God. – Shannon L Alder
- If you’re treating people poorly then you’re not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted. – Shannon L Alder
- A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn. – Shannon L Alder
- An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God’s response. – Shannon L Alder
- While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both. – Shannon L Alder
- God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- every time God forgives us, God is saying that God’s own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. – Richard Rohr
- God wants to accomplish the calling of winners, he wants us to establish His victory on earth – Sunday Adelaja
- Asking is the first level of prayer. – Sunday Adelaja
- True prayer is pleading with God for that which He wants to do anyway. – Todd Stocker
- In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul. – Todd Stocker
- Prayer shouldn’t be a burden but a privilege-”God wants our fellowship. – Billy Graham
- in prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul. – Todd Stocker
- We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. – Oswald Chambers