Quotes on Prayer

Quotes on Prayer:
" God does nothing but in answer to prayer" John Wesley
"Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior some day in Heaven, will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the Power of Prayer." D.L. Moody
"When you pray, you make the connection to use the authority God has given you to change the World.
Apart from our prayers, God cannot and will not interfere with the affairs here on earth. Prayer is man releasing the Kingdom of God's authority of Heaven on earth.
Prayer is God keeping His word to man and through man.
Prayer is Man giving earthly licence for Heavenly interference.
Prayer is mankind giving God legal permission to interfere in earth affairs. It's not Begging.
Prayer is a transaction of Kingdom activity where the ambassador gives the government the right to impact the colony.
God can to nothing on earth because of the Law He gave in Genesis 1:26 when He gave us authority.
If u study the Scriptures, Every single act of God had to require a human cooperating with God so that the human could give God licence to interfere in earth affairs. That's why you need to pray every day; That's why the Bible says: Pray without ceasing." Dr. Myles Munroe

An Olympic champion's amazing conversion

Category: Cultural Commentary

Published on Wednesday, 19 February 2014 05:45

Written by Jim Denison

Kelly Clark won bronze at this year's Winter Olympics, the only snowboarder ever to win three medals.  (She won gold in 2002 and bronze in 2010).  When she won her gold medal, she was the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic team.  Three years later, she won first place at the World Cup.  But her life was as dark as her athletic prospects were bright.

"I achieved the highest in my sport.  I was famous," she says.  "I had money.  I had an Olympic gold medal.  Everything that anyone could have wanted, and I found out that wasn't what I was looking for."  She turned to drinking and partying, but nothing filled the void in her soul.

What happened?  "I had spiraled into this depression and into this place that was just real dark.  I was at this contest, and I was staying by myself.  I spent the morning writing about how I didn't want to live anymore and how it wouldn't even matter."  She was standing at the bottom of the pipe (the semi-circular snow-covered area where athletes in her sport compete) when four words changed her life: "This girl comes down, and she's crying 'cause she fell on both of her runs and she didn't qualify.  This other girl goes up to her, [and] I'm standing there.  They didn't know anybody was listening.  She was like, 'Hey, it's all right.  God still loves you.'  I was blown away.  If there's a God who loves me, like, I need to know Him.

"She was staying at my hotel, and I found out what room number she was in.  So that night I knocked on her door.  She told me about having a relationship with Jesus, and she started telling me that was what it was about.  My Creator wanted a real relationship with me, and He loved me very much."

After thinking about what she heard, Kelly made a decision: "I gave my life to the Lord that day.  It was pretty cool.  The Lord really apprehended me at that point."  How has her faith changed her life?  "Now having a relationship with the Lord, I find that there's a lot more freedom in snowboarding for me.  I'm just so in love with Him.  Every time I think about Him I have to tell Him I love Him 'cause I'm head over heels.  He makes me smile."

The next time you're discouraged about your apparent inability to change the moral direction of our culture, remember Kelly Clark's story.  "God still loves you," overheard at a snowboarding competition, led her to become one of the most visible and vibrant Christian witnesses in athletics today.  God promises that his word "shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it" (Isaiah 55:11).

So speak his truth in love (Ephesians 4:15) and expect the Holy Spirit to use your words and life to change someone's eternal trajectory.  Is there a greater privilege in life?
http://www.denisonforum.org/cultural-commentary/965-an-olympic-champions-amazing-conversion

Blue sky versus clouds....

Walking down the street of the village with Romy, my almost daughter, singing about the blue sky in French, turning into another little street, and trying to explain why it is difficult to sing in French, since I can’t really express what I want to say for lack of words. Tried again and started out “the sky is blue…” but by that time the clouds covered the sky. “The sky is blue, but we don’t see it” and the Holy Spirit told me: “that is like the healing it is always there, but you don’t see it. Just remove the clouds, pray them away and you will see the healing. Know that it is there!!! “