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Intercessory prayer…will necessarily require time. No one else, therefore, will be able to do it except those who are willing to sacrifice the time to do it. This alone is sufficient to make it clear to us that the work of intercession can be done only by those who are willing in spirit. All others will find more than enough excuses for not doing it. One excuse will be that they have not the time and cannot arrange to take the time.
(Ole Hallesby, Prayer, 83).
As far as I can see, prayer has been ordained only for the helpless.
It is the last resort of the helpless.
Indeed, the very last way out.
We try everything before we finally resort to prayer!
(Ole Hallesby, Prayer, 18).
To pray is nothing more involved than to open a door giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.
He who gave us the privilege of prayer knows us very well. He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.
That is why He designed prayer in such a way that the most impotent can make use of it. For to pray is to open the door unto Jesus.
(Ole Hallesby, Prayer, 15).
To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs. To pray is to give Jesus permission to employ His powers in the alleviation of our distress. To pray is to let Jesus glorify His name in the midst of our needs.
(Ole Hallesby, Prayer, 14.)
“To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means to be so watchful at all times that we can notice when we become slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of prayer to have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive factor is the Spirit of prayer.”
According to Ole Halesby…
The most difficult prayer, and the prayer which, therefore, costs us the most striving, is persevering, the prayer that faints not, but continues steadfastly until the answer comes (Prayer, 112).
Ole Hallesby has the answer…
We long for revivals;
We speak of revivals;
And we even pray a little for them.
But we do not enter upon that labor in prayer which is the essential preparation for every revival
(Prayer, 77).
Ole Hallesby has the answer:
“What we really should complain most about is ourselves and our own slothfulness in prayer” (Prayer, 71).
Our prayer for a spiritual awakening will without question, be most effective if we take up the work of interceding for certain individuals in particular (O. Hallesby, Prayer, 80).
We long for revivals;
We speak of revivals;
We work for revivals;
And we even pray a little for them.
But we do not enter upon that labor in prayer which is the essential preparation for every revival!
(O. Hallesby, Prayer, 77)
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