Oswald Chambers: Prayer - A Holy OccupationSample

Did you ever say anything like this to yourself, “It is so difficult to select a place?” What about the time when you were in love, was it impossible to select a place to meet? No, it was far from impossible; and beware of self-indulgence. Think how long our Lord has waited for you; you have seen Him in your visions, now pray to Him; get a place, not a mood, but a definite material place and resort to it constantly, and pray to God as His Spirit in you will help you. Bring to earth the promised life you have longed for.

Curb your impulsive undisciplined wayward nature to His use, and rule your body like a king where now, even in strength and honesty, you walk prey to baser and less spiritual things. Do not say, “If I only had so and so”; you have not got so and so; but we can always do what we want to do if our want to do it is sufficient.

Reflection Questions: Is my “want” to pray sufficient to make me pray? If not, why not?

Quotation taken from Christian Discipline, vol. 2, © Discovery House Publishers