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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 Is The Practice

Oswald Chambers

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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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A Good Book, In The Language Of The Book-sellers, Is A Salable One; In That Of The Curious, A Scarce One; In That Of Men Of Sense, A Useful And Instructive One.

The Bible Is Not A Book That You Can Open And Say, 'now, Lord, Put Some Magic Into My Soul That Will Open Up The Meaning Of This Book.' There Is Only One Way Really To Understand The Word, And That Is Through Wrestling With The Circumstances And Happenings Of Life.

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Intercession Means Raising Ourselves Up To The Point Of Getting The Mind Of Christ Regarding The Person For Whom We Are Praying.

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Joy Comes From Seeing The Complete Fulfillment Of The Specific Purpose For Which I Was Created And Born Again, Not From Successfully Doing Something Of My Own Choosing.

We Are Not Built For Ourselves, But For God. Not For Service For God, But For God.

We Hear It Said That A Man Will Suffer In His Life Is He Does Not Pray; I Question It. What Will Suffer Is The Life Of The Son Of God Within Him, Which Is Nourished Not By Food But By Prayer...prayer Is The Way The Life Of God Is Nourished.

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When We Are Abandoned To God, He Works Through Us All The Time.

No Matter Who Or What We Are, God Restores Us To Right Standing With Himself Only By Means Of The Death Of Jesus Christ.

Your God May Be Your Little Christian Habit - The Habit Of Prayer Or Bible Reading At Certain Times Of Your Day. Watch How Your Father Will Upset Your Schedule If You Begin To Worship Your Habit Instead Of What The Habit Symbolizes. We Say, 'i Can't Do That Right Now; This Is My Time Alone With God.' No, This Is Your Time Alone With Your Habit.

Never Believe That The So-called Random Events Of Life Are Anything Less Than God’s Appointed Order. Be Ready To Discover His Divine Designs Anywhere And Everywhere.

The Nature Of The Spiritual Life Is That We Are Certain In Our Uncertainty.

Never Water Down Or Minimise The Mighty Gospel Of God By Considering That People May Be Misled By Certain Statements. Present The Gospel In All Its Fullness And God Will Guard His Own Truth.

The Most Important Aspect Of Christianity Is Not The Work We Do, But The Relationship We Maintain And The Surrounding Influence And Qualities Produced By That Relationship. That Is All God Asks Us To Give Our Attention To, And It Is The One Thing That Is Continually Under Attack.

It Is Misleading To Imagine That We Are Developed In Spite Of Our Circumstances, For We Are Developed Because Of Them. It Is Mastery In Circumstances That Is Needed, Not Mastery Over Them.

The Call Of God Is Not A Reflection Of My Nature; My Personal Desires And Temperament Are Of No Consideration. As Long As I Dwell On My Own Qualities And Traits And Think About What I Am Suited For, I Will Never Hear The Call Of God.

The Marvelous Thing About Spiritual Wealth Is That When We Take Our Part In That, Everyone Else Is Blessed; Whereas If We Refused To Be Partakers, We Hinder Others From Entering Into The Riches Of God.

Our True Character Comes Out In The Way We Pray.

The Great Thing About Faith In God Is That It Keeps A Man Undisturbed In The Midst Of Disturbance.

Character In A Saint Means The Disposition Of Jesus Christ Persistently Manifested.

No Matter What Changes God Has Performed In You, Never Rely On Them. Build Only On A Person, The Lord Jesus Christ, And On The Spirit He Gives.

Worship Is Giving God The Best That He Has Given You.

If We Have Never Had The Experience Of Taking Our Commonplace Religious Shoes Off Our Commonplace Religious Feet, And Getting Rid Of All The Undue Familiarity With Which We Approach God, It Is Questionable Whether We Have Ever Stood In His Presence.

It Is Impossible To Get Exhausted In Work For God. We Get Exhausted Because We Try To Do God's Work In Our Own Way.

We Have To Pray With Our Eyes On God, Not On The Difficulties.

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Worship And Intercession Must Go Together, The One Is Impossible Without The Other. Intercession Means That We Rouse Ourselves Up To Get The Mind Of Christ About The One For Whom We Pray.

A Private Relationship Of Worshiping God Is The Greatest Essential Element Of Spiritual Fitness.

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.

We Are Apt To Think That Everything That Happens To Us Is To Be Turned Into Useful Teaching; It Is To Be Turned Into Something Better Than Teaching, Into Character. We Shall Find That The Spheres God Brings Us Into Are Not Meant To Teach Us Something But To Make Us Something.

We Are Not Meant To Be Seen As God's Perfect, Bright-shining Examples, But To Be Seen As The Everyday Essence Of Ordinary Life Exhibiting The Miracle Of His Grace.

Some Prayers Are Followed By Silence Because They Are Wrong, Others Because They Are Bigger Than We Can Understand.

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