Oswald Chambers - Prayer Quotes

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

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Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

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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."

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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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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

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Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.

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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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Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.

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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.

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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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We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

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

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