Depend upon it, prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and purposes, and bend His government all to my foolish, silly and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into unison and design with Him; that I am to enter into His counsel and carry out His purpose fully. I am afraid sometimes we think of prayer as altogether of an opposite character, as if thereby we persuaded or influenced our Father in heaven to do whatever comes into our minds, and whatever would accomplish our foolish, weak-sighted purposes. I am convinced of this, that God knows better what is best for me and for the world than I can possibly know; and even though it were in my power to say, ‘My will be done’ I would rather say to Him, ‘Thy will be done’.
— Prevailing Prayer, D. L. Moody (via whomshallifear) (via itiswellwithmysoul)
