Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Oswald ChambersRead
Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
Interpretation
Prayer transcends logic and is an intuitive connection to the divine through the Holy Spirit.
This quote by Oswald Chambers suggests that prayer is not confined to rational thought or logic but instead is a profound, mysterious act of faith that connects individuals with the divine influence of the Holy Spirit. It emphasizes the spiritual aspect of prayer, encouraging believers to seek a deeper understanding beyond cognitive reasoning.
In practice
During a religious service, one might reflect on the nature of prayer using this quote.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
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Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.
To be closer to god, be closer to people.
Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.
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