Prayer - A Holy Occupation / Day 11 / by Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers: Prayer - A Holy Occupation

Day 11 of 30 Our Lord in his teaching regarding prayer never once referred to unanswered prayer; He said that God always answers prayer. If our prayers are in the name of Jesus, that is, in accordance with His nature, the answers will not be in accordance with our nature, but with His. We are apt to forget this, and to say without thinking that God does not always answer prayer. He does every time, and when we are in close communion with Him, we realize that we have not been misled. Whenever we stop short in prayer and say—“Well, I don’t know; perhaps it is not God’s will,” there is still another stage to go. We are not so intimately acquainted with God as Jesus was, and as He wants us to be. Reflection Question: Am I close enough to God to recognize His answers to prayer? Quotations taken from If You Will Ask and My Utmost for His Highest, © Discovery House Publishers Jeremiah 29:12-13 Jeremiah 29:12-13 KJV 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.