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• As it is the business of tailors to make
  clothes, and the business of cobblers to mend
  shoes, so it is the business of Christians to
  pray!
• Prayer is not overcoming Gods reluctance, but
  laying hold of His willingness.
  Martin Luther

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• The church is looking for better methods God
  is looking for better men. What the church needs
  today is not more machinery or better, not more
  and novel methods, but men who the Holy Spirit
  can usemen mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit
  does not come on machinery but on men. He does
  not anoint plans, but menmen of prayer.
  
• E. M. Bounds

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• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing
  but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care
  not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen
  such alone will shake the gates of hell and set
  up the kingdom of heaven on earth...God does
  nothing but in answer to prayer.
• John Wesley

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• The one concern of the devil is to keep
  Christians from praying. He fears nothing from
  prayerless studies, prayerless work, and
  prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks
  at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
• Samuel Chadwick

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• Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint
  upon his knees.
• William Cowper

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We have not stopped praying for you and asking
God to fill you with the knowledge of his will
through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.
We pray this in order that you may live a life
worthy of the Lord and may please him in every
way bearing fruit in every good work,
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• growing in the knowledge of God, being
  strengthened with all power according to his
  glorious might so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully giving
  thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to
  share in the inheritance of the saints in the
  kingdom of light. For he has rescued us
• Colossians 19-12

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• 1. Pray first not for health and circumstances,
  but for spiritual growth, knowledge, wisdom,
  fruit-bearing, patience, joy and thankfulness.
• Colossians 19-12

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Christ is the image of the invisible God all
things were created by him and for him. He is
before all things, and in him all things hold
together. And he is the head of the body, the
churchso that in everything he might have the
supremacy.
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• For God was pleased to have all his fullness
  dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to
  himself all things, whether things on earth or
  things in heaven, by making peace through his
  blood, shed on the cross.
• Colossians 115-20

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• 2. Pray with humility, exalting Christ for His
  worthiness, sovereignty and supremacy, and
  praising Him for His redemptive work.
• Colossians 115-20

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Be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you
richly as yousing psalms, hymns and spiritual
songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And
whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it
all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
to God the Father through him. Colossians
315-17
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• 3. Pray with profound gratitude, continually
  thanking God for his blessings, large and small
  thanking Him above all for his amazing grace
  that though you deserve Hell, He paid the
  ultimate price to give you Heaven.
• Colossians 315-17

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Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and
thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open
a door for our message, so that we may proclaim
the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.

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• Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders
  make the most of every opportunity. Let your
  conversation be always full of grace, seasoned
  with salt, so that you may know how to answer
  everyone.
• Colossians 42-6

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• 4. Pray for divine appointments, Gods
  empowerment and evangelistic boldness and clarity
  for yourself, family, church and missionaries.
• Colossians 42-6

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• Every great movement of God can be traced to a
  kneeling figure.
• Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will
  be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use
  of the power of prayer.
  D. L. Moody

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• Face to Face
• Praying the Scriptures for Intimate Worship
• Kenneth Boa

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• Prayer does not fit us for the greater work
  prayer is the greater work.
  Oswald Chambers

The main lesson about prayer is just this Do it!
Do it! DO IT! John Laidlaw