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The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a

The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.

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Prayer, Humble, Thinking
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Christian Character through Divine Guidance, Suffering, Peril, Prayer, Loneliness, and Patience”, p.158, Discovery House

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

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Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

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Faith, Christian, Prayer
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.500, Discovery House

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

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Prayer, Order, Giving
Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

God brings you to places, among people, and into certain conditions to accomplish a definite purpose through the intercession of the Spirit in you. Your part in intercessory prayer is not to agonize over how to intercede, but to use the everyday circumstances and people God puts around you by His providence to bring them before His throne, and to allow the Spirit in you the opportunity to intercede for them. In this way God is going to touch the whole world with His saints.

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Prayer, Opportunity, People
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.73, Discovery House

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

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Morning, Prayer, Today

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

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Prayer, Mind, Answers
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.55, Discovery House

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

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Prayer, Defense, Use

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

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Inspirational, Prayer, Ideas

Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.

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Prayer, Silence, Answers

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

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Jesus, Prayer, Men

The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.

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Prayer, Real, Soul
Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.354, Discovery House

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

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Prayer, Needs, Praying
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Highest Good / The Pilgrim's Song Book / Thy Great Redemption”, p.29, Discovery House

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, Faith, Prayer
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

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Prayer, Attitude, Horizon
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.19, Discovery House

One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.

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Prayer, Order, Soul

Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.

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Spiritual, Prayer, Track

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

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Prayer, Order, Perfect
Oswald Chambers (2016). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct”, p.30, Discovery House

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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Spiritual, Prayer, Irritation
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.456, Discovery House

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

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Christian, Prayer, Alive

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.

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Prayer, Attitude, Son

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.

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Spiritual, Prayer, Giving
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.135, Discovery House

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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Prayer, Track, Answers
Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.28, Discovery House

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

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Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Trying
Oswald Chambers (2010). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.40, Discovery House

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.

Oswald Chambers
Prayer, Men, Giving
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Christian Character through Divine Guidance, Suffering, Peril, Prayer, Loneliness, and Patience”, p.158, Discovery House

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