Prayerful Request Quotes

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

When my daughter Ektaa was born, she was weak and underweight and I was worried. I prayed to god to bless her with good health and he answered my prayers.

When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.

I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

I remember one of my first prayers when I became a Christian was simply, 'God, provide a job for me. I don't care how hard I have to work, just provide a job and opportunity so that I can take care of my family.' And you know, that was really all I asked from Him.

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.