Right now, rest in the knowledge of answered prayers:
We can accomplish far more by our prayers than by our work. Prayer is omnipotent; it can do anything God can do! When we pray, God works. All fruitfulness in service is the outcome of prayer—of the worker’s prayers, or of those who are holding up holy hands on his behalf.
There is no doubt whatever that the devil opposes our approach to God in prayer, and does all he can to prevent the prayer of faith. His chief way of hindering us is to try to fill our minds with the thought of our needs, so that they shall not be occupied with thoughts of God, our loving Father, to Whom we pray. He wants us to think more of the gift than of the Giver. The Holy Spirit leads us to pray for a brother. We get as far as “O God, bless my brother”—and away go our thoughts to the brother, and his affairs, and his difficulties, his hopes and his fears, and away goes prayer! How hard the devil makes it for us to concentrate our thoughts upon God! This is why we urge people to get a realization of the glory of God, and the power of God, and the presence of God, before offering up any petition.31.
—AN UNKNOWN CHRISTIAN, IN THE KNEELING CHRISTIAN