Quotes from Oswald Chambers

Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

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

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

Some of the qualities of # God must be merged into us before our # prayers can be fit for His acceptance.

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

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

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."

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.

God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.

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.

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

Prayer is an effort of will.

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.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.