Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importunity into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court of heaven. The man who prays with fasting is giving heaven notice that he is truly in earnest… Not only so, but he is expressing his earnestness in a divinely-appointed way. He is using a means that God has chosen to make his voice to be heard on high.

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When we pray, the circumstances often remain the same, but we become different.
Oswald Chambers

Prayer does not change God, but the one who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Corrie ten Boom

To pray is to draw breath from God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you can never do more than pray before you have prayed!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Prayer does not equip us for greater works – prayer is the greater work.
Oswald Chambers

God has his ear at your heart.
Augustine of Hippo

Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson