Oswald Chambers Quotes

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

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

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

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

The happiest person in the world has struggled. And none of us are perfect. And people can judge. There's so much judgment going on. And I just don't think that's what God's about.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else’s place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.

We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

As you pray for forgiveness, you will find yourself forgiving others. As you thank God for His kindness, you will think of others, by name, who need your kindness. Again, that experience will surprise you every day, and over time it will change you.

..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did.