01c. 1895 ADOne of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
02c. 1895 ADWhen God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
03c. 1895 AD...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
04c. 1895 ADThe touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
05c. 1895 ADBeware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
06c. 1895 ADMy worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers / quote ↗
10c. 1895 ADHuman nature if it healthy demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics He makes no passionless saints.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
11c. 1895 ADWe look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
13c. 1895 ADThe purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
14c. 1895 ADEvery time we pray our horizon is altered our attitude to things is altered not sometimes but every time and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
15c. 1895 ADIt is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally but of working wonders in a man's disposition.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
16c. 1895 ADIt is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
17c. 1895 ADGet into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in you will work on a wrong level all day but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
18c. 1895 ADIt is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
19c. 1895 ADIf you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
20c. 1895 ADWhen a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
21c. 1895 ADDo not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
22c. 1895 ADThere is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
23c. 1895 ADWe pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
24c. 1895 ADIf we rely on the Holy Spirit we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate and when they are inarticulate reverence grows deeper and deeper.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
