Prayer - A Holy Occupation / Day 21 / by Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers: Prayer - A Holy Occupation

Day 21 of 30 Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does. Much of the misery in our Christian life comes not because the devil tackles us, but because we have never understood the simple laws of our makeup. We have to treat the body as the servant of Jesus Christ; when the body says, “Sit” and He says, “Go,” go! When the body says, “Eat,” and He says, “Fast,” fast! When the body says, “Yawn,” and He says, “Pray,” pray! Reflection Question: Which do I obey more often, the urges of my body or the nudges of God’s Spirit? Quotations taken from Studies in the Sermon on the Mount and Biblical Ethics, © Discovery House Publishers John 17:20-23 John 17:20-23 KJV 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.