Quotes about Connection
As surely as we receive blessings from Him, He will pour out blessings through us. But whenever the blessings are not being poured out in the same measure they are received, there is a defect in our relationship with Him.
- Oswald Chambers
If we set out to serve God and do His work but get out of touch with Him, the sense of responsibility we feel will be overwhelming and defeating
- Oswald Chambers
The reason for prayer is intimacy of relation with our Father.
- Oswald Chambers
O Lord, how good it is for me to know Thee; how essentially necessary it is for me to draw nigh to Thee. How can I falter when Thou art my Life!
- Oswald Chambers
The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.
- Oswald Chambers
To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it.
- Oswald Chambers
One of the reasons of stultification in prayer is that there is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God.
- Oswald Chambers
True friendship is rare on earth. It means identifying with someone in thought, heart, and spirit. The whole experience of life is designed to enable us to enter into this closest relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Oswald Chambers
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
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
- Oswald Chambers
And the only solution is a very simple one—"Come to Me." The intellectual, moral, and spiritual depth of our reality as a person is tested and measured by these words.
- Oswald Chambers
God reveals in John 17 that His purpose is not just to answer our prayers, but that through prayer we might come to discern His mind.
- Oswald Chambers