Lizzy Tonkin’s Reviews > If Ye Shall Ask > Status Update

“Our Lord in His teaching always considered prayer work, not preparation for work.”

“Beware of making God fit the mold of His own precedent. Just because He did a certain thing once, does not mean He is sure to do it again…We have taken ourselves so seriously we cannot even see God; we are dictating to God.”

“We think of prayer as preparation for work, or claim after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.”

“The great difficulty in intercession is myself, nothing less or more…I must learn not to take myself too seriously.”

“A man has the Spirit of Jesus given to him, but he has not His mind until he forms it. How are we to form the mind of Christ? By letting His Spirit imbue our spirit, our thinking, and our reasoning faculties.”

“The characteristic of the Holy Spirit in a man is a strong family likeness to Jesus and freedom from everything unlike Jesus.”

“So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God.”

“We have to pray relying upon what has been revealed by the sent-down Holy Spirit, and the first revelation is that we do not know how to pray.”

“Jesus prayed that you might be one with the age that as He is; are you helping His answer His prayer, or have you another end for your life?”

“He did not choose the solitary places; he was driven by the Spirit of God into the wilderness. It is not good to be alone; evil will make a person want to be alone. Jesus Christ does not make religious hermits; he makes men and women fit for the world as it is.”