Oswald Chamber Quote on Prayer Pt 2

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

Our Lord prayed because He was concentrated on God; that is, He did not worship prayer.

Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?….Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The world must be left outside until God alone fills the vision…God has promised to answer prayer. It is not that He is unwilling, for the fact is, He is more willing to give than we are to receive. But the trouble is, we are not ready…

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

Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural.

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

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is. In times of declension we are inclined to place the need of prayer instead of penitent approach to God in the fore front.

Inarticulate prayer, the impulsive prayer that looks so futile, is the thing God always heeds. The habit of ejaculatory prayer ought to be the persistent habit of each one of us.

Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means for getting something for ourselves; the Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

By intercessory prayer we can hold off Satan from other lives and give the Holy Ghost a chance with them. No wonder Jesus put such tremendous emphasis on prayer.

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

A most beneficial exercise in secret prayer before the Father is to write things down exactly so I see exactly what I think and want to say. Only those who have tried these ways know the ineffable benefit of such strenuous times in secret.

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.

It is not wrong to pray in the early morning, but it is wrong to have the motive that it should be known.

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.

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

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

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.

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.

Worshiping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshiping…when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.

You cannot truly intercede through prayer if you do not believe in the reality of redemption.

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer…Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.  


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