Oswald Chambers Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.500, Discovery House

• 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

  Prayer, Attitude, Horizon

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.19, Discovery House

• 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

  God, Faith, Prayer

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House

• 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.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Letting Go

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

• Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Prayer, Track

• God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Opportunity, People

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.73, Discovery House

• To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

  Oswald Chambers

  Change, Faith, God

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.501, Discovery House

• 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

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.135, Discovery House

• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

• 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.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Track, Answers

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.28, Discovery House

• God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Order, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

• The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.56, Discovery House

• We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.307, Discovery House

• Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Exercise, Drawing

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.365, Discovery House

• Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Evidence, Praying To God

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character”, p.76, Discovery House

• We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Prayer, Ideas

• See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Cover Ups, Use

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.52, Discovery House

• 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.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Reality, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.303, Discovery House

• Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Way, Intercession

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.135, Discovery House

• The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character”, p.76, Discovery House

• Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Doe, Fit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery House

• Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

  Oswald Chambers

  Morning, Prayer, Today

• It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.

  Oswald Chambers

  Dream, Prayer, Live Life

  Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct”, p.30, Discovery House

• The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Humble, Thinking

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Christian Character through Divine Guidance, Suffering, Peril, Prayer, Loneliness, and Patience”, p.158, Discovery House

• Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Trying

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.40, Discovery House

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