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It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no

It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.

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

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

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Jesus, Prayer, Suffering
Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.15, Discovery House

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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Prayer, Silence, Grace
Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.45, Discovery House

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

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Jesus, Prayer, Stupid
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.75, Discovery House

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

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Prayer, Views, Perfect

Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that prayers are answered rightly because of the heavenly Father's wisdom: “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”.

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Prayer, Father, Taught
"Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character".

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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Jesus, Prayer, Thinking
Oswald Chambers (1997). “God's Workmanship: And, He Shall Glorify Me”, Discovery House Pub

Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.

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Prayer, Drawing, Practice
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.62, Discovery House

Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things."Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him." Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.

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Prayer, Father, Needs

When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

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Prayer, Mean, Son

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

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Prayer, Dawn, Foolish
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.20, Discovery House

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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Prayer, People, Answers
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.43, Discovery House

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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Prayer, Waiting, Trying
Oswald Chambers (2015). “So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service”, p.30, Discovery House

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

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Prayer, Doe, Fit
Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery House

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

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Prayer, Way, Intercession
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

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

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Prayer, Father, Giving

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

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Prayer, Evidence, Praying To God
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character”, p.76, Discovery House

The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

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Prayer, Character, Two

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, Silence, Answers
Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.47, Discovery House

Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.

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Jesus, Prayer, Views
Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.201, Discovery House

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

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Prayer, Soul, Body
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

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.

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Prayer, Heart, Thinking
"My Utmost for His Highest".

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

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Prayer, Character, Way
Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings”, p.186, Discovery House

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

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Prayer, Preparation, Church

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

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Spiritual, Morning, Prayer
Oswald Chambers (1997). “God's Workmanship: And, He Shall Glorify Me”, Discovery House Pub

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