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The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of god while our hearts remain far from him.
-Henri Nouwen
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The Crisis Of Our Prayer Life Is

Henri Nouwen
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of god while our hearts remain far from him.
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Prayer is first of all listening to god. it's openness. god is always speaking; he's always doing something. prayer is to enter into that activity... convert your thoughts into prayer. as we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. the difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue,... a conversation with god.
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Say the prayer first thing in the morning when you open your eyes; then say it again before you go to sleep. dream the prayer. feel the prayer with your emotional body. be the prayer; align your faith and intent with the prayer until your whole life is based on this prayer.
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I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! in my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. i love god and there's something in me that would rather do things for god than talk to god. i'm not by nature a mystical, devotional person. i like to do things. and so it's a challenge for me to have a faithful prayer life, but i know god loves me and he's not mad at me. he just wishes i would slow down and turn things over to him. and that's what i think you achieve through prayer.
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Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. as the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. satan's strategems against prayer are three. first, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. if that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. and, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.
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God is always present, always available. at whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is god who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. the prayer which is pronounced for god and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.
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Prayer is vastly superior to worry. with worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. when i hear sad news, i try to say a prayer for the victims. when i am troubled, i will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as i do. when i am concerned about my relatives or friends i say a short prayer to myself - "may they be happy and free of suffering."
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