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"Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf."
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Source: David Rains Wallace (1978). “The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook”, Random House (NY)
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