Oswald Chambers

We learn by prayer to detect the difference between God’s order and God’s permissive will. God’s order is — no pain, no sickness, no devil, no war, no sin: His permissive will is all these things, the “soup” we are in just now. What a man needs to do is to get hold of God’s order in the kingdom on the inside, and then he will begin to see how to handle the riddle of the universe on the outside.