Robert A. Cook

Opposition can’t be licked by your human smartness — don’t try it. Instead, turn it over to your blessed Lord.

You can pray in a manner that will free up the Word of God to get into people’s hearts — yes, you can.

As you pray for yourself and for others, remember that this is a battle. God is able to open up things for you so the Word of God gets out.

When you pray, just remember God reserves the right to determine how the prayer will be answered.

What we are saying is that effective praying has to involve the whole being. It has to involve all of you. And it is a battle, and you have to work at it.

Good, effective praying starts with love for God in your heart — not with the need particularly, but with love for God.

Be specific when you pray for yourself and for others. Then trust the blessed, faithful, promise-keeping God to answer perfectly and according to His eternal Will.

God didn’t make you to fail. He made you to bring glory and honor to Him.

Count on the faithfulness of God. He is faithful that calls you, and He’ll do it. He’ll do it. Not you, but God working in you.

Just one misstep in conduct or in attitude can disappoint another who is looking in to find in you the holiness of God.