Oswald Chambers Quotes

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.

When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now. We can and should pray for America as a whole, but remember that when God sets out to change a nation, He begins by changing people. It starts with individuals.

Let us always pray for one another.

When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede

Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

I pray for John McArthur. I pray for, that God would tender his heart. I pray that he would have eyes of understanding.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Most people have settled for a wimpy grace. It's something that doesn't change their lives. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.