“God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.” I CanTwoTodayFacesReadingHoursPrayerMeditationPrayingBlessingPureEnlightenmentLet MeAskingGods WillSettingSettingsGet UpRefreshing Author:Bonar Law
“I have so fixed the habit in my own mind that I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment's asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter without putting a word of prayer under the seal. I never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change classes in the section room without a minute's petition on the cadets who go out and those who come in.” MindWarMomentsWaterMy OwnPrayerRoomsClassMinutesHabitBlessingLettersAskingRaisesLipsGlassesPostsFixedSectionsMy ThoughtsNever ChangeSealsPetitionsConfederateSilent PrayerCadets Author:Stonewall Jackson
“'Salad Days' refers to a youthful or innocent period. And a lot of people having been asking me already so you jaded? And I'm not, I'm 23. It's me reflecting, I had to re-learn to have fun with music and I had to re-count my blessings.” PeopleFunPeriodsBlessingAskingInnocentHaving FunReflectingSaladJadedMy Blessing Author:Mac DeMarco
“We [me and Alex Kendrick] had our pastor's blessing back in 2013 to launch out, and so we shot [ War Room] last year, in 2014, but we still had the church pray over us , before the movie hit theatres, and the pastor was asking God to bless the film, and so we're very excited about what's happening .” YearsStillsWarLastsPastFilmChurchRoomsPrayingBlessingHappeningsShotsAskingExcitedTheatreBlessLast YearOur PastPastorAlexAsking God Author:Stephen Kendrick
“Then my father's features hardened. "You can't expect my blessings on this disastrous mistake." The words were directed at me, but Vlad responded. "I wouldn't insult you by asking. We both know you disapprove and we both know I don't care. Leila's opinion is the only one that matters, and she said yes.” KnowsSaidMatterCareFatherMistakeOpinionBlessingAskingDon't CareI Don't CareFeaturesInsultHardenedMy BlessingInsults You Author:Jeaniene Frost
“Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. In this, as in everything, God's thoughts are not as ours. God requires that His gifts should be sought for. He designs to be honoured by our asking, just as He is to be thanked by us after He has bestowed His blessing.” NeedsShouldPrayerDesignBlessingAskingTemptationConfession Author:Arthur W. Pink
“With the influences of evil that surround our children, can we even imagine sending them out in the morning without kneeling and humbly asking together for the Lord's protection? Or closing the day without kneeling together and acknowledging our accountability before Him and our thankfulness for His blessings? Brothers and sisters, we need to have family prayer.” NeedsChildrenTogetherEvilPrayerLordMorningImagineInfluenceBrotherBlessingAskingOur ChildrenProtectionAccountabilitySurroundBrothers And SistersThankfulnessClosingKneelingFamily Prayer Author:Neil L. Andersen
“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.” LoveHelpingEarthEffortKnowingLandJudgingBlessingConscienceLaborAskingRewardsFinalsDeedsInauguralInaugural AddressWork EffortChristian Patriotic Author:John F. Kennedy
“Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him.” IfsNeedsGivingAsksPrayerBlessingAskingGodlyAsking God Author:Gerhard Tersteegen
“Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort of performance. Prayer is going to God for something needed and desired. Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him ... Asking is man's part. Giving is God's part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to God.” IfsMenNeedsGivingAsksPrayerAnswersPrayingNeededBlessingPerformancesAskingMereGodlyCeremonyRiteAsking God Author:Gerhard Tersteegen