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((Adrian Rogers) Money talks- it say's " goodbye"

(Rogers)  If you want to know your true wealth, add up the things money can't buy and death can't take away

(Rogers)  Your true prosperity is your posterity

(Jim Conway) I don't know how all this fits together. I don't understand the reasons for it. I'm not going to ask for an explanation. I've chosen to accept the fact that you are God and I'm the servant instead of the other way around and there I have left it. I have come to recognize that God has a higher purpose and I just don't understand that purpose. It's either despair, or it's the acceptance of His sovereignty. Those are the alternatives. There is no in between

(Psalm 103:17/ The Message) God's love is ever and always eternally present

(A. Rogers) To know about God is to know only His works; to know Him is to know His ways

(Our Daily Bread) Adding up your blessings will multiply your joy

(J. Allen Blair) How can it be that the door is always open, and so many fail to enter in and enjoy the marvelous opportunity of daily prayer?

( Blair) God will always answer prayer, but only in a way that will be for His glory and our good. True prayer is not an effort to enlist the will of God on the side of our desires;rather , to bring our desires into conformity with His will. God frequently finds it necessary to answer our prayers by doing a work in our hearts rather than  by giving us the the things for which we are praying. He molds our desires so that they will harmonize with His divine plan. The more we grow in God's grace, the more our praying will become Christ-centered rather than self-centered. We will want only what the Lord wants for us. Effectual praying is Christ-centered praying

(Adrian Rogers) God answers our prayers in  one of four ways: directly, differently, delayed ( seemingly  by our time schedule) , or denied

(J. Allen Blair) "Neverless not my will be done, but Thy will be done ". To fail at this point is to fail to pray as we ought. No matter how important or seemingly needful that for which we are praying may seem to us, if it is not in accord with the holy will of God, it can never be that which is right and best for us. Don't limit the power of God by not praying as we should. Consider what kind of world it would be if God did exactly what we demanded in every instance. The entire basis for the God-man  relationship would be undermined

(James Dobson) God must be--He will be -- the determiner of what is in our best interest. We can't see the future. We don't see His plan. We perceive only the small picture, and not even that very clearly. Given this limitation, it seems incredibly arrogant to tell God what to do -- rather than making our needs known to God-- and then yielding to His divine purposes. When will we ever learn that His strength has always been, is, and always be made perfect in our weaknesses? Moses was chosen for leadership, not because he was a miracle-worker or a superman, but because the Lord determined to use his inadequacies and his shortcomings. Each of us is riddled with flaws and shortcomings that God could overcome with a whisper. Instead , He often lets us struggle with our weaknesses to reveal His own power. Commenting on 2 Cor 12:9: " If I may paraphrase my understanding of this passage, He says to us, everyone is asked to endure some things that bring discomfort, pain, and/or sorrow. This is yours to accept. Accept it. Carry it. I will give you the grace to endure it" Thus, life goes on in a state of relative imperfection.