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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
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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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