If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer (OSWALD CHAMBERS LIBRARY) - Softcover

Chambers, Oswald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929239067 ISBN 13: 9780929239064

Publisher: Discovery House Publishers, 1994

Synopsis

Sometimes we're blind in our prayers. Mary Magdalene was weeping at the tomb, asking for the dead body of Jesus. Whom was she asking? Jesus Himself, yet she did not know it. In his matchless way, Oswald Chambers reflects on the truth and the enormous power of prayer.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Prayer changes things, we say. Oswald Chambers would modify that phrase to prayer changes me, and then I change things.

In this small but powerful book on prayer, Chambers reveals the key problem with the way many of us pray today. That is, we focus our prayers on ourselves instead of on God. The purpose of prayer is not to get healed, get a job, get our house sold, or get whatever else we want. It is to get the life of God in us.

Our me-centered culture has infiltrated our prayer life. We suffer from what Chambers calls a disease of the nerves taking a spiritual twist. Our relative affluence has left us foolishly self-sufficient and complacent. If our only reason to pray is for our own needs, and if we are pretty well meeting our own needs, why pray?

Chambers tells us why. He shows us what we are missing when we don't have the life of God in us.

About the Author:

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) is best known for the classic devotional My Utmost for His Highest. Born in Scotland, Chambers had a teaching and preaching ministry that took him as far as the United States and Japan. He died at age forty-three while serving as chaplain to Allied troops in Egypt during World War I.

David McCasland is a contributor to Our Daily Bread and the author of Eric Liddell: Pure Gold and Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God, which won the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion for biography. He and his wife live in Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: Discovery House Publishers
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0929239067
• ISBN 13: 9780929239064
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128