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Bill  Johnson    
Quotes  on  Prayer  
 
1. A  lot  of  prayer  is  actually  an  expression  of  unbelief.  
2. Abiding  faith  attracts  the  promises  of  God.  
3. Any  area  that  doesn't  have  an  expectation  of  good  is  under  the  influence  of  
a  lie.  
4. Any  revelation  that  does  not  bring  us  into  greater  encounter  only  trains  us  
to  be  more  religious.  
5. Anything  you  think  you  know  about  God,  that  you  can't  find  in  the  person  
of  Jesus,  you  have  reason  to  question.  
6. Arrogance  isn't  thinking  too  much  of  ourselves  but  thinking  too  little  of  
others.  
7. Being  alone  with  God  is  a  reminder  of  priorities.  Quiet  time  forces  
busyness  to  find  its  victims  elsewhere.  
8. Complacency  and  ignorance  tolerate  unanswered  prayers.  
9. Complaining  is  to  the  devil  what  praise  is  to  God.  
10. Devotion  to  prayer  and  intimacy  with  God  is  the  only  setting  in  which  we  
can  completely  step  into  the  fullness  of  God's  purposes.  
11. Don't  let  the  "how  to's"  of  worship  distract  you  from  the  "who  to."  
12. Don't  let  what  you  didn't  get  in  your  childhood  keep  you  from  what  God  
provides  for  His  children  -­‐  a  perfectly  faithful  Father.  
13. Every  person  should  have  a  hunger  to  hear  the  voice  of  God.  

     
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14. Everything  we  do  for  people  is  just  to  get  them  to  experience  the  Father.  
Striving  for  a  Christian  only  exists  in  the  absence  of  realizing  the  Fathers  
love.  
15. Faith  brings  an  answer.  Enduring  faith  brings  the  answer  with  character.  
16. Faith  doesn't  deny  a  problems  existence.  It  denies  it  a  place  of  influence.  
17. Faith  feeds  from  the  invisible  world  towards  our  visible  one.  
18. Faith  is  generated  in  the  atmosphere  of  experiencing  truth.  
19. Faith  is  not  the  absence  of  doubt;  it  is  the  presence  of  belief.  
20. Faith  is  the  offspring  of  grace.  
21. Faith  moves  Heaven,  so  that  Heaven  will  move  earth.  
22. Faith  offends  the  stationary.  
23. Faith  provides  eyes  to  the  heart.  Faith  sees.  
24. Fear  often  looks  like  wisdom  to  those  in  unbelief.  
25. Fire  always  falls  on  sacrifice.  Are  you  willing  to  become  that  living  sacrifice  
for  His  fire  to  rest  upon?  
26. God  did  not  promise  to  answer  our  prayers  once  we  became  robots.  He  
actually  makes  Himself  vulnerable  to  the  desires  of  His  people.  This  is  
easier  to  understand  in  friendship  over  servanthood.  
27. God  gives  revelation  to  those  He  knows  will  do  whatever  He  says.  
28. God  is  better  than  you  think.  So  let's  change  the  way  we  think.  
29. God  is  looking  for  the  open  door  to  provide  His  solutions  for  our  
problems.  We  open  that  door  through  prayer.  
30. God  says  no  to  our  prayers  when  they  would  remove  us  from  our  purpose.  
31. Hope  is  the  joyful  anticipation  of  good.  
32. Humanity  without  Christ  at  the  center  is  demonic  in  nature.  

     
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33. I  try  to  live  in  such  a  way  that  nothing  gets  bigger  than  my  awareness  of  
God's  presence  on  my  life.  
34. If  it  matters  to  you,  it  matters  to  him.  
35. If  you  are  confident  in  what  God  has  called  you  to  do,  you  will  not  be  
distracted  by  someone  intimidating  you.  
36. If  you  come  out  of  an  intense  prayer  time  more  depressed  than  when  you  
went,  you  weren't  interceding,  you  were  complaining.  
37. If  you  have  a  delayed  answer  [to  prayer],  it  is  gaining  interest.  
38. If  you  live  cautiously,  your  friends  will  call  you  wise.  You  just  won't  move  
many  mountains.  
39. If  you're  a  Christian  and  you're  bored,  then  you  might  want  to  check  the  
distance  between  yourself  and  the  Master.  
40. In  the  Kingdom,  peace  is  the  presence  of  a  Person.  
41. Increased  dependence  on  His  presence  can  only  result  in  His  supernatural  
invasion  into  your  circumstances.  
42. It  is  a  crime  for  us  to  pray  and  think  nothing  will  happen.  
43. It  is  inconsistent  to  have  Jesus  pay  a  price  for  healing  and  for  us  to  believe  
it  is  not  God's  intention  to  heal.  
44. It's  abnormal  for  Christians  not  to  have  an  appetite  for  the  impossible!  
45. It's  much  more  fun  to  pray  with  God  than  merely  to  pray  to  Him.  
46. Jesus  took  what  I  deserved  so  I  could  get  what  He  deserved.  
47. Life  doesn't  come  from  revelation;  it  comes  from  the  encounter  brought  
about  by  the  revelation.  
48. Live  in  such  a  way  that  unless  God  shows  up  what  you're  attempting  to  do  
is  bound  to  fail.  This  is  the  nature  of  the  Gospel.  
49. Make  your  thoughts  and  conversations  consistent  with  your  prayers.  

     
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50. Most  Christians  repent  enough  to  get  forgiven,  but  not  enough  to  see  the  
Kingdom.  
51. Most  of  the  Church  is  waiting  for  the  next  big  command  from  God,  but  
God  is  waiting  for  the  dreams  of  His  Church.  
52. Most  of  what  you  need  will  come  to  you;  most  of  what  you  want  you’ll  
have  to  go  get.  
53. My  destiny  is  to  go  to  heaven,  my  responsibility  is  to  bring  heaven.  
54. My  heart  can  go  where  my  head  can't  fit.  
55. Never  lose  consciousness  of  the  God  that  invades  the  impossible.  
56. Nothing  satisfies  the  heart  of  the  Christian  like  seeing  so-­‐called  
impossibilities  bow  their  knees  to  the  name  of  Jesus.  
57. Obedience  is  measured  by  our  response  to  God’s  voice.  
58. One  of  the  most  important  features  of  being  a  minister  unto  the  Lord  is  to  
have  a  heart  for  the  voice  of  God.  
59. Only  enduring  faith  has  access  to  the  wonder  of  compound  interest  as  it  
pertains  to  the  answer.  
60. Our  assignment  has  never  been  about  what  we  can  do  for  God,  but  what  
can  God  do  through  us!  
61. Our  faith  can  only  go  as  far  as  our  awareness  of  God's  goodness.  
62. Our  hunger  for  revival  must  go  beyond  our  desire  for  a  move  of  God.  
Revival  is  the  result  of  us  hungering  for  God  Himself.  
63. Our  prayers  are  answered  when  they  are  consistent  with  our  purpose.  
64. Passion  is  the  best  motivation  for  discipline.  
65. Passive  prayer  is  no  more  than  a  worry  or  complaint  session  with  God.  
66. Persistence  in  prayer  doesn't  change  God.  It  shapes  us  for  the  answer.  
67. Prayer  is  giving  input  for  the  outcome.  

     
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68. Prayer  is  my  response  to  His  invitation  to  come  boldly  into  a  throne  room  
and  there  to  have  discourse  that  alters  the  course  of  world  history.  
69. Prayers  that  don't  move  you,  won't  move  Him.  
70. Rejecting  God's  voice  is  rejecting  His  face  as  it  rejects  the  opportunity  for  
an  authentic  relationship  with  Him.  
71. Royalty  is  my  identity.  Servanthood  is  my  assignment.  Intimacy  with  God  
is  my  life  source.  
72. Since  you  can't  imagine  a  place  where  He  isn't,  you  might  as  well  imagine  
Him  with  you.  
73. Some  unanswered  prayers  are  only  because  God  doesn't  want  to  do  
something  for  us.  He  wants  to  do  something  through  us.  
74. Sometimes  we  have  to  pray  for  the  answer,  but  sometimes  we  have  to  pray  
to  be  the  answer.  
75. The  bottom  line  is  that  we  give  all  of  ourselves  to  obtain  all  of  Him.  There's  
never  been  a  better  deal.  
76. The  farther  you  go  with  God  the  less  you  can  take  with  you.  
77. The  fear  of  diligently  praying  for  blessing  may  be  the  most  acceptable  
selfish  attitude  in  the  church.  Tragically  it’s  called  humility.  
78. The  Holy  Spirit  is  imprisoned  in  the  bodies  of  unbelieving  believers.  
79. The  more  we  live  as  citizens  of  Heaven,  the  more  Heaven's  activities  infect  
our  lifestyles!  
80. The  most  natural  dynamic  for  a  Christian  is  answered  prayer.  
81. The  purpose  of  God's  wondrous  stories  is  to  draw  you  into  the  passionate  
pursuit  of  more  of  His  presence.  
82. The  way  you  silence  fear  is  to  give  attention  to  faith.  
83. The  way  you  think  either  expresses  or  undermines  faith.  

     
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84. The  whole  difficulty  of  embracing  and  seeing  the  miraculous  has  
everything  to  do  with  our  understanding  of  the  Father.  
85. There  are  things  that  God  only  tells  friends.  
86. There  can  be  no  authentic  relationship  with  God  for  people  who  prefer  a  
mediator  over  and  above  personal  encounters.  
87. [To  see  revival]  we  need  to  pray  for  breakthrough  in  private,  but  then  take  
risks  in  public.  
88. Unbelief  is  safe,  because  it  takes  no  risk  and  almost  always  gets  what  it  
expects.  
89. We  always  become  like  the  one  we  worship.  
90. We  are  not  designed  to  coexist  with  unfulfilled  prayers.  
91. We  are  not  to  live  in  reaction  to  the  devil.  We  are  to  live  in  response  to  
God.  
92. We  experience  the  measure  of  presence  we  are  willing  to  jealously  guard.  
93. We  will  always  reflect  the  nature  of  the  world  we  are  most  aware  of.  
94. When  He  puts  the  resurrected  Christ  in  you,  He  immediately  expects  you  
to  conquer  something.  
95. When  I  live  out  of  discipline,  I'm  admired;  when  I  live  out  of  passion,  I'm  
contagious.  
96. When  our  passion  for  God  fails  to  find  its  expression  in  joy,  it  often  finds  
it's  expression  in  legalism.  
97. When  we  pursue  kingdom  principles  above  His  presence,  we  are  looking  
for  the  kingdom  without  a  king.  
98. When  you  have  a  heart  for  God,  you  have  access  to  the  secrets  of  God.  
99. When  your  passion  begins  to  decline,  you  already  start  to  die.  You  were  
born  to  burn.  

     
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100. Where  ever  the  church  fails  to  pray,  the  enemy  is  happy  to  move  in.  
101. Why  do  you  think  Jesus  gave  us  a  Comforter?  He  knew  His  ways  would  
make  us  uncomfortable  first.  
102. You  can't  go  in  faith  where  you  haven't  gone  in  intimacy.  
103. You  know  your  mind  is  renewed  when  the  impossible  seems  logical.  
104. You  rarely  see  what  you  are  not  looking  for.  
105. You  were  not  designed  for  unanswered  prayer;  that's  why  there  is  no  
instruction  about  them.  
 
 
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