01c. 1895 ADPrayer is not only asking it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural and Jesus says "every one that asketh receiveth."Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
02c. 1895 ADIntercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all he is connected with God by prayer and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
03c. 1895 ADWatch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
04c. 1895 ADGod does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
05c. 1895 ADPrayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue i.e. it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job and it will never be done unless we do it.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
06c. 1895 ADWhenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
07c. 1895 ADOur understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
08c. 1895 ADIf God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask then He will give them but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
09c. 1895 ADYou say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
10c. 1895 ADWhen we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
11c. 1895 ADGod's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
12c. 1895 ADPray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
13c. 1895 ADWe impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
14c. 1895 ADOur Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
15c. 1895 ADThe greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
16c. 1895 ADGod's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
17c. 1895 ADOne great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
18c. 1895 ADPrayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
20c. 1895 ADPrayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
21c. 1895 ADPrayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
22c. 1895 ADPrayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
24c. 1895 ADBeware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.Oswald Chambers / quote ↗
