Missional prayers align us with God’s purposes. They teach us to rest in God’s power and presence as we advance His mission and promote His Glory. They position us to be usable by God in any way possible.
Gary Rohrmayer
Related God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish G... SUNDAY ADELAJA God’s presence manifests His power and might SUNDAY ADELAJA God has given us all different abilities and gifts, so that through them we can bring God’s love a... SUNDAY ADELAJA God’s constant wealth is accessible to us, if we cultivate His holiness in our lives SUNDAY ADELAJA God’s grace and mighty power aided us in the accomplishment of our goals. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must... JERRY BRIDGES We need to fall in love with God’s presence to be able to give His love to the people suffering in... SUNDAY ADELAJA Every Christian is called to be a shaft in God’s quiver, polished for His glory SUNDAY ADELAJA We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His... CORRIE TEN BOOM In God’s presence, his spirit begins to interact with our spirit to deal with every darkness and e... SUNDAY ADELAJA God’s presence is His place of favor and mercy SUNDAY ADELAJA We can be fruitful God’s plan, to reached the target and give glory to God SUNDAY ADELAJA God’s mercy and patience with us are beyond our ability to comprehend. He pursues us until we resp... TERESA SCHULTZ The goal of God’s prosperity is to establish His glory SUNDAY ADELAJA Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that... WILLIAM BARCLAY Mankind Is Created To Restore God’s Glory-His Kingdom To Earth SUNDAY ADELAJA The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifes... JOHN PIPER God’s decision to reach out in such dramatic fashion as to lay all rightful privilege aside and be... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We will not be measured by the world’s standards anymore. We will be measured by the plumb line of... TERESA SCHULTZ No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God gra... BILL COURTNEY Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer... WILLIAM BARCLAY Each of us was created in God’s kinship and similarity SUNDAY ADELAJA God’s Word transforms you into someone who reflects His glory. ELIZABETH GEORGE I was reminded just why God wants us to forgive. Not simply because it’s the key to a better world... GAYLE FORMAN God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit. ELIZABETH GEORGE Birthdays are God’s way of telling us to eat more chocolate cake. FEMALE IMAGINATION God’s downward descent to us in grace reversed by our upward ascent in pragmatic enthusiasm, we ar... MICHAEL S. HORTON Becoming God’s reflection first in our private life and walking before God creates a wonderful pla... SUNDAY ADELAJA We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for... JOHN OWEN I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy.... GEORGE SAUNDERS Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer: Pra... WILLIAM BARCLAY God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an i... R.C. SPROUL Any accomplishment is possible with God’s grace. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for al... L. LIONEL KENDRICK We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God ... BROTHER YUN God’s purpose for us is that we ought to be conformed to the image of His Son. The world may ... BILLY GRAHAM Choose God’s way of and choose the things that God chooses. His choices are the best SUNDAY ADELAJA As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. ... C... C. S. LEWIS God’s principles and especially the principle of giving should not just be a knowledge to us, they... SUNDAY ADELAJA It is pointless to be called by God’s name and not have His respect SUNDAY ADELAJA For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The c... OSCAR A. ROMERO I pray more dangerously when I need to experience God’s light in my soul, His power in my ministry... GARY ROHRMAYER He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth under... ALEXANDER MACLAREN If a person closes his eyes to God’s plan, God will close His eyes to his fate SUNDAY ADELAJA Enduring pain intentionally is part of the way for God’s glory to be revealed. SUNDAY ADELAJA God’s love does not permit us to hate anybody SUNDAY ADELAJA To be motivated by God’s love is to extend his kingdom on earth SUNDAY ADELAJA We bring to people the joy of God’s presence when we encourage them to live according to God’s l... SUNDAY ADELAJA He chose to love us. He chose to lay down His life for us. The danger of believing that you “fall ... JOSHUA HARRIS God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with... STEPHEN CROTTS We should possess the inheritance of God’s knowledge, in order to use money for the glory of the k... SUNDAY ADELAJA God desired to reveal himself in and through His creatures by communicating to them as much of His o... ANDREW MURRAY If you take each step, as if it was your last. You would appreciate the world in all its glory and b... ANTHONY T. HINCKS I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ... ELISABETH ELLIOT To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre... H. A. IRONSIDE God chose to deliberately venture into and intentionally occupy depths far below and infinitely beyo... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Once we determine in our souls that God’s glory is our goal, we then stop taking the path of least... MARK DRISCOLL To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His... GEORGE MULLER We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is... ELLEN G. WHITE God doesn’t want us to sit idle and simply enjoy His presence, he wants a close relationship with ... SUNDAY ADELAJA God needs the best of me, you, us, and ourselves for His glory. RAYMOND OBENG It is always essential to feel and know that each of us was created in God’s kinship and similarit... SUNDAY ADELAJA God’s only power is to love silently. He is incapable of any oppressive force. God is love, and lo... ROBERT SARAH A lot of us receive God’s grace and then proceed to wait for miracles and such. In so doing, we wa... SUNDAY ADELAJA Only the power of God’s presence can change the mentality and mindset of the people SUNDAY ADELAJA We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because ... RICH MULLINS Life comes from light: if we are under God’s shining light, life will be generated and the divine ... SUNDAY ADELAJA Tell us any lie you want to, In any kind of mixture, But we pray you, God we pray you, Don't show us... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of buildi... KIMBERLY NOVOSEL We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would cho... HENRY B. EYRING Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you . . . remember that the ... FREDERICK BUECHNER Man is supposed to be the picture of God’s creativity. SUNDAY ADELAJA In God’s expectation, man is supposed to carry God's image. SUNDAY ADELAJA In God’s expectation, man is supposed to carry God’s likeness. SUNDAY ADELAJA The main thing for us is to apply maximum effort to reach the goals that are set before us and fulfi... SUNDAY ADELAJA Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. ... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence. JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU To be born again is to be destined to reflect God’s glory SUNDAY ADELAJA We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us. MARY E. DEMUTH Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence tha... JAMES MACDONALD Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not. C.S. LEWIS We expect to have a great crowd to help us proclaim the glory of God and thank Him for allowing us t... JOE ROBERTS God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn ... C.S. LEWIS all human work (especially excellent work), done by all people, as a channel of God’s love for his... TIMOTHY J. KELLER And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river... ALI SMITH The light of God’s love makes us unique personalities SUNDAY ADELAJA As our sin is ever before us, so God’s promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, ... THOMAS WATSON We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provid... ST. THOMAS AQUINAS The best way of protection is to spread God’s presence through all means SUNDAY ADELAJA Our active civil position will lead us to the manifestation of the glory of God in our nation SUNDAY ADELAJA Feast of James the Apostle It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER No literary fact is more remarkable than that men, knowing what these writers knew, and feeling what... T. D. BERNARD ...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He di... ARTHUR W. PINK God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his p... BILL HYBELS Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the... JOHN PIPER God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our... WALTER MARTIN God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion fo... JONATHAN EDWARDS I just don't know what happened. We had nobody to match up against Paulson but we got out-hustled, t... JAY KARLINS
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GARY SHERMAN I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always... GARY SHEFFIELD In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives a... GARY SHEFFIELD I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. T... GARY SHEFFIELD I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't liv... GARY SHEFFIELD I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame.... GARY SHEFFIELD Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see ... GARY SHEFFIELD I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child ... GARY SHEFFIELD Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got ... GARY SHEFFIELD When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I... GARY SHEFFIELD When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a ... GARY SHEFFIELD Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because,... GARY SHEFFIELD If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that'... GARY SHEFFIELD I trust no one totally. GARY SHEFFIELD I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted th... GARY SHEFFIELD Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life. GARY SHEFFIELD The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They... GARY SHEFFIELD This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'Go... GARY SHEFFIELD There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids. GARY ROSS The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push t... GARY ROSS My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world,... GARY ROSS The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen S... GARY ROSS I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace a... GARY ROSS Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decid... GARY ROSS