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.
Oswald ChambersThe 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.
Oswald ChambersWe are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
Oswald ChambersIf we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.
Oswald Chambers