Prayer - A Holy Occupation Day 3 by Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers: Prayer - A Holy Occupation

Day 3 of 30 Jesus says there are times when our heavenly Father will appear as if He were a most unnatural father, callous and indifferent. But remember, says Jesus, I have told you—“everyone who asks receives.” When we get into spiritual confusion the usual way out is to say we have made a blunder, and we go back instead of forward. “I don’t know what to do; I am up against a stone wall.” Will you “hang in” to what Jesus said? If there is a shadow on the face of God the Father just now, remain confident that ultimately He will give His clear issue as Jesus said. It is not a question of black or white or right or wrong, of being in communion or out of communion; but a question of God taking us by a way which in the meantime we do not understand. Reflection Questions: What is one issue about which God seems indifferent to me? Is my response one of faith or doubt? Quotation taken from The Place of Help, © Discovery House Publishers Luke 11:11-13 Luke 11:11-13 KJV 11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? 12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?