Richard Wagner - Christian Prayer for Dummies

by Richard Wagner

Christian Prayer For Dummies

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From He Shall Glorify Me. Copyright l946 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn. Ltd.:

We have a God who engineers circumstances. (Chapter 1)

If you ever prayed in the dawn, you will ask yourself why you were so foolish has to not do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day. (Chapter 4)

Specific times and places and communion with God go together. It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning. (Chapter 4)

Watch the difference between confession and admitting; the majority of us are quite ready to admit, it is the rarest thing to get to the place where we will confess.... It is much more difficult to confess to God than we are apt to think. It is not confessing in order to be forgiven; confession is the evidence that I am forgiven. (Chapter 6)

From The Love of God. Copyright l938 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn. Ltd.:

Fasting means concentration in order that the purpose of God may be developed in our lives. (Chapter 10)

From So Send I You. Copyright 1930 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn. Ltd.:

Whether our work is a success or a failure has nothing to do with us. Our call is not to successful service, but to faithfulness. (Chapter 12)

When we hear a thing is not necessarily when it is spoken, but when we are in a state to listen to it and to understand. Our Lord's statements seem to be so simple and gentle, and they slip unobserved into the subconscious mind. Then something happens in our circumstances; up comes one of these words into our consciousness and we hear it for the first time and it makes us reel with amazement. (Chapter 19)

From God's Workmanship. Copyright l953 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn. Ltd.:

Don't say thy will be done, but see it is done. (Chapter 16)

From If You Shall Ask. Copyright l937 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn. Ltd.:

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand. (Chapter 18)

From Our Brilliant Heritage. Copyright l929 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn. Ltd.:

Before we can hear, we must be trained. (Chapter 19)

From The Philosophy of Sin. Copyright l937 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn. Ltd.:

These are cases recorded in the Bible, and in our own day, of people who have been marvelously healed, for what purpose? For us to imitate them? Never, but in order that we might discern what lies behind, namely, the individual relationship to a personal God. (Chapter 20)

From Not Knowing Where . Copyright l934 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn. Ltd.:

If it was God's will to bruise his own Son, why should it not be his will to bruise you? (Chapter 20)

From The Shade of His Hand. Copyright l924, 1936 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn. Ltd.:

Prayer is not a preparation for work, it is work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it is the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive. (Chapter 4)

There will come one day a personal and direct touch from God when every tear and perplexity, every oppression and distress, every suffering and pain, and wrong and injustice will have a complete and ample and overwhelming explanation. (Chapter 18)

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