Oswald Chambers - Answer Quotes

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

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Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

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The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

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If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God's grace.

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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

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There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.

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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.

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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.

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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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The touchstone of the Holy Spirit's work in us is the answer to our Lord's question: Who do men say that the Son of Man is? Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.

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

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