\nIn the same reading in which Trumbull is quoted, Oswald Chambers states that \u201cPrayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work.\u201d Scottish born, Chambers gave up a career in art to become a pastor and teacher. He served as a chaplain for the YMCA in Egypt during the First World War and died in Cairo of appendicitis. His writings are extremely thought-provoking as was his whole ministry. His wife, Gertrude, devoted the rest of her life to preserving and putting into print her husband\u2019s many sermons. That is why many of his books are still on the market, the best known of these being My Utmost for His Highest. Read below, more of what Chambers has to say on the subject of prayer:
\n\u201cWe think of prayer as a common-sense exercise of our higher powers in order to prepare us for God\u2019s work. In the teaching of Jesus Christ prayer is the working of the miracle of Redemption in me which produces the miracle of Redemption in others by the power of God. . . . Prayer is the battle; it is a matter of indifference where you are. Whichever way God engineers circumstances, the duty is to pray. Never allow the thought, \u201cI am of no use where I am,\u201d because you certainly can be of no use where you are not. Wherever God has dumped you down in circumstances, pray, ejaculate to Him all the time. \u201cWhatsoever ye ask in My name, that will I do.\u201d We won\u2019t pray unless we get thrills; that is the intensest form of spiritual selfishness. We have to labor along the line of God\u2019s direction, and He says pray. \u201cPray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. . . .\u201d
\n\u201cThe great enemy to the Lord Jesus Christ in the present day is the conception of practical work that has not come from the New Testament, but from the systems of the world in which endless energy and activities are insisted upon, but no private life with God. The emphasis is put on the wrong thing. Jesus said, \u201cThe kingdom of God cometh not with observation . . . for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you,\u201d a hidden, obscure thing. An active Christian worker too often lives in the shop window. It is the innermost of the innermost that reveals the power of the life.
\n\u201cWe have to get rid of the plague of the spirit of the religious age in which we live. In our Lord\u2019s life there was none of the press and rush of tremendous activity that we regard so highly, and the disciple is to be as his Master. The central thing about the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship to Himself, not public usefulness to men.\u201d
\nThe above quotations are taken from Kneeling We Triumph Volume One. This book is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.
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