Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.