 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. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| 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. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| 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. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| 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. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| 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. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| 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. Author: Oswald Chambers |
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| Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| 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. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| 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. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| 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. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| 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. Author: Oswald Chambers |
