Oswald Chambers Quotes

Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.
Oswald Chambers
Gaining heaven, being delivered from sin, and being made useful to God are things that should never even be a consideration in real surrender.
Oswald Chambers
God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to proclaim the gospel of God.
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This total surrender to 'the love of Christ' is the only thing that will bear fruit in your life. And it will always leave the mark of God's holiness and His power, never drawing attention to your personal holiness.
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To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.
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Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.
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Our ordinary and reasonable service to God may actually compete against our total surrender to Him.
Oswald Chambers
Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.
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Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Oswald Chambers
The 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
God'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
One 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
Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.
Oswald Chambers
We 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
Our 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
Our 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
If 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
You 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
When 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.
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God'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.
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Prayer 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.
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Whenever 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.
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The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
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Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
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God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
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We 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.
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Intercessory 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.
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We 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.
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Prayer 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."
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If 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.
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Do 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.
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There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.
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When 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.
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Get 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.
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It 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.
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If 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.
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It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God not on the difficulties.
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The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.
Oswald Chambers
Every 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
It 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
Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Oswald Chambers
The 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
God'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
One 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
Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.
Oswald Chambers
We 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
Our 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
Our 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
If 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
You 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