Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“say that “prayer changes things” is not as close to the truth as saying, “Prayer changes me and then I change things.” God… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Some of the qualities of # God must be merged into us before our # prayers can be fit for His acceptance. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“If we deliberately choose to obey God, then He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
“My spiritual history must have as its underlying foundation a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ. To be born again means that I see Jesus.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share
