If You Will Ask Quotes

“The secret of Christian quietness is not indifference, but the knowledge that God is my Father, He loves me, and I shall never think of anything He will forget. With this knowledge, worry becomes an impossibility.”
― Oswald Chambers, If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer

“If we accept the Lord Jesus Christ and the domination of His lordship, we also accept that nothing happens by chance because we know that God orders and engineers circumstances.”
― Oswald Chambers, If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer

“God’s silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.”
― Oswald Chambers, If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer

“The disciples were good men and well-versed in Jewish praying, yet when they came in contact with Jesus Christ, instead of realising they could pray well, they came to the conclusion they did not know how to pray at all, and our Lord instructed them in the initial stages of prayer.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Dark and appalling are the clouds of war and wickedness and we know not where to turn, but, Lord God, Thou reignest.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Lord God Omniscient, give me wisdom this day to worship and work aright and be well pleasing to Thee. Lord, interpret Thyself to me more and more in fulness and beauty.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, this morning disperse every mist, and shine clear and strong and invigoratingly. Forgive my tardiness, it takes me so long to awaken to some things.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Lord, the range of Thy power, the touch of Thy grace, the breathing of Thy Spirit, how I long for these to bring me face to face with Thee; Lord, by Thy grace cause me to appear before Thee.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, my Lord, I come to Thee this morning with a sense of spiritual failure. Cleanse me by Thy grace and restore me to the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. O that the sweet kindness of Jesus were more and more manifest in me.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, save us from the murmuring spirit which with the majority of us is merely skin deep, but it is harmful, hurting the bloom of spiritual communion. Keep our life hid with Christ in God.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Lord, for the days of the past holiday I praise and thank Thee, for my lying fallow to Thy grace; for the many prayers that have surrounded me like an atmosphere of heaven.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, Thou art God, Holy and Almighty, and Thou doest all things well. Show Thyself to us this day. Lord, for myself I would make petition to see Thee; draw me near to Thee that I may know Thee and have rare communion with Thee.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, I would bless and praise Thee. How hard I find it to praise Thee when I am not physically fit, and yet why should it—that means that I praise Thee when it is a pleasure to me physically. O Lord, that my soul were one continual praise to Thee.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, I am distressed at my slow manifestation of any of the beauty of holiness that might express my unspeakable gratitude for Thy salvation, such lack of the winsome. O Lord, cause me by looking to Thee to be radiant.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Insulate me, O Lord, from the things of sense and time, and usher me into the presence of the King.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, my approach to Thee is dulled because of my physical dimness, but my spirit and heart rejoice in Thee and my flesh shall rest in hope. Touch me bodily, O Lord, till I answer in thrilling health to Thy touch.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Are we prepared to pray with Murray McCheyne, “Lord, make me as holy as Thou canst make a sinner saved by grace”?”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Lord, I still move and live in a dim world, feeling Thee near by faith, but I will not presume. I would hide in Thee in security and patience until I am as Thou wouldst have me to be.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, I know Thy blessing and I praise Thee, but it is the indescribable touch and enwheeling as Thy servant that I seek for— I know not what I seek for, but Thou knowest. How I long for Thee!”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Lord, how I desire to see Thee, to hear Thee, to meditate on Thee and to manifestly grow like Thee! And Thou hast said, “Delight thyself also in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Lord, through the dimness, come with dawning and drawing light. Breathe on me till I am in a pure radiant frame of body and mind for Thy work and for Thy glory this day.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“Lord, so much activity, so many things, so numberless the people, and yet Thou remainest! Bless today with largeness of heart and beauty of character for Thy glory. O Lord, unto Thee do I look up. Enlighten me, cause me to be radiant with Thy countenance. I praise Thee for Thy grace and for seeing a little of Thy marvellous doings; enable me more and more to manifest the life hid with Christ in God.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, when I awake I am still with Thee. Quicken my mortal body with Thy mighty resurrection life; rouse me with a gracious flooding of Thy Divine life for this day.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“He gives us the gift of holiness, are we exercising it?”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“God does not expect us to work for Him, but to work with Him.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, I have no inkling of Thy ways in external details, but I have the expectancy of Thy wonders soon to be. made visible. Lord, I look to Thee, how completely at rest I am, yet how free from seeing Thy way. Thou art God and I trust in Thee.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask

“O Lord, breathe on me till I am one with Thee in the temper of my mind and heart and disposition, unto Thee do I turn. How completely again I realise my lostness without Thee.”
― Oswald Chambers, If Ye Shall Ask