Eastern Sierra, CA
"Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 'Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 'Give us this day our daily bread. 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 'And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.'
Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
John Muir Wilderness, CA
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude–an attitude of dependency, dependency on God.
A.W. Pink
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
"I think distractions in prayer are often because we have let ourselves wander too far from the things that matter most. And so we slip into an easily interrupted, easily distracted frame of mind."
Amy Carmichael
Eastern Sierra, CA
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith."
Prayer can let in a ray of hope when all our earthly prospects seem darkened.
J.C. Ryle
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
"Do not let us think of prayer as the coaxing or the conquering of a reluctant friend, but rather as the confident appeal to One who is always wise, and always willing to give us what is best for us."
Theodore Cuyler
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Prayer reminds us who we are, and who our Father is. Prayer expresses our dependence and it reinforces our dependence.
Alistair Begg
Eastern Sierra, CA
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
This is the heart of prayer–not getting things from God, but getting God.
David Mathis
What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.
Zion National Park
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
D.A. Carson
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
We are not heard for our many words, but for the cry of our hearts.
John MacArthur
Eastern Sierra, CA
The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.
Jonathan Edwards
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Yosemite National Park
"Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord."
A.W. Pink
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring from door bells and run away before anyone answers.
D.A. Carson
Eastern Sierra, CA
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
The angel fetched Peter out of prison but it was the prayer that fetched the angel.
Thomas Watson
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
John Muir Wilderness, CA
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.
William Cowper
But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
Thomas Brooks
Eastern Sierra, CA
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
"Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you."
J.C. Ryle
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Eastern Sierra, CA
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart.
John Bunyan
But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.
Charles Spurgeon
Eastern Sierra, CA
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
God intends to use human prayers to accomplish his most ultimate and universal purposes.
John Piper
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Red Rock State Park, AZ
Have you been asking God what he is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not reveal to you what he is going to do; he reveals to you who he is.
Oswald Chambers
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
Believer, when you are on your knees, remember you are going to a King. Let your petitions be large.
C.H. Spurgeon
Eastern Sierra, CA
And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
D.A. Carson
By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
Eastern Sierra, CA
Prayer is a shelter to the soul, a sacrifice to God and a scourge to the devil.
Thomas Brookes
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
When you pray, four persons are involved. The Father listens. The Spirit helps and the Son intercedes. A Christian never prays alone.
Colin Smith
Yosemite National Park
Pray without ceasing,
God cannot at times hear the prayer of your lips because the desires of your heart after the world cry out to him much more strongly and loudly.
Andrew Murray
Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you,
Eastern Sierra, CA
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
D.L. Moody
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.
Oswald Chambers
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
Corrie Ten Boom
You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.
Eastern Sierra, CA
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing
Martin Luther
Eastern Sierra, CA
then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgiving. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
C.H. Spurgeon
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
Yosemite National Park
When you default to thinking of prayer as an abstract activity, a 'thing to do', the tendency is to focus on the prayer as an activity–which makes it boring. Instead focus on the one to whom you're praying.
Michael Reeves
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
John Piper
Yosemite National Park
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
It may seem God did not answer prayer when the real issue may be that we did not like the answer.
H.B. Charles Jr.
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
Zion National Park
"God loves us too well to grant every request of our selfish hearts."
H.A. Ironside
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
I have a perfect right to ask God for a strength equal to the day, but I have no right to ask Him for one extra ounce of strength for tomorrow’s burden.
Theodore Cuyler
Southern Utah
“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
"It will always be found that when prayers are few, grace, strength, peace, and hope are small."
J.C. Ryle
But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.
Yosemite National Park
Prayer is arguably the most objective measurement of our dependence upon God. The things you pray about are the things you trust God to handle. The things you neglect to pray about are the things you trust you can handle on your own.
H.B. Charles Jr.
Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success!
"When things are going well with us we may content ourselves with talking about the Lord; but when the sky darkens we hasten to deal with Him and talk to Him directly."
F.B. Meyer
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.
"Our prayer and God’s mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends, the other descends."
Mark Hopkins
Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Eastern Sierra, CA
"As every day demands its bread, so everyday demands its prayer. No amount of praying, done today, will suffice for tomorrow’s praying."
E.M. Bounds
and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
Prayer helps us cling to the altar of God's promises by which we lay hold of God himself.
Joel Beeke
Eastern Sierra, CA
O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.
When God intends to do a great work He stirs up His people to pray for the thing He intends to do.
Michael Haykin
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
Yosemite National Park
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centred our world is.
D.A. Carson
And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that–it is a spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
Charles Spurgeon
John Muir Wilderness, CA
Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”
"Spread out your petition before God, and then say, 'Thy will, not mine, be done.' The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me."
D.L. Moody
He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
Eastern Sierra, CA
"Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little, and are content with little."
A.W. Pink
for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Augustine
Eastern Sierra, CA
he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
E.M. Bounds
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
Eastern Sierra, CA
Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.
Andrew Murray
Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we can ask, if it is according to His will.
John F. Walvoord
Eastern Sierra, CA
"Now, O my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
E.M. Bounds
But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
Phillips Brooks
It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.
Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.
Alistair Begg
Eastern Sierra, CA
With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,
Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.
Ansel Adams Wilderness Area, CA
