- Rejecting God’s voice is rejecting His face as it rejects the opportunity for an authentic relationship with Him.
- It’s much more fun to pray with God than merely to pray to Him.
- Faith is not the absence of doubt, it is the presence of belief.
- There are things that God only tells friends.
- God says no to our prayers when they would remove us from our purpose.
- Being alone with God is a reminder of priorities. Quiet time forces busyness to find its victims elsewhere.
- Obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.
- Sometimes we have to pray for the answer, but sometimes we have to pray to be the answer.
- Hope is the joyful anticipation of good.
- Most Christians repent enough to get forgiven, but not enough to see the Kingdom.
- Faith brings an answer. Enduring faith brings the answer with character.
- Abiding faith attracts the promises of God.
- God did not promise to answer our prayers once we became robots. He actually makes Himself vulnerable to the desires of His people. This is easier to understand in friendship over servanthood.
- Devotion to prayer and intimacy with God is the only setting in which we can completely step into the fullness of God’s purposes.
- Every person should have a hunger to hear the voice of God.
- When you have a heart for God, you have access to the secrets of God.
- If you have a delayed answer [to prayer], it is gaining interest.
- It is a crime for us to pray and think nothing will happen.
- The most natural dynamic for a Christian is answered prayer.
- A lot of prayer is actually an expression of unbelief.
- Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of God’s goodness.
- The fear of diligently praying for blessing may be the most acceptable selfish attitude in the church. Tragically it’s called humility.
- We experience the measure of presence we are willing to jealously guard.
- Faith moves Heaven, so that Heaven will move earth.
- Prayer is giving input for the outcome.
- If you’re a Christian and you’re bored, then you might want to check the distance between yourself and the Master.
- Never lose consciousness of the God that invades the impossible.
- The whole difficulty of embracing and seeing the miraculous has everything to do with our understanding of the Father.
- If it matters to you, it matters to him.
- Persistence in prayer doesn’t change God. It shapes us for the answer.
- Passive prayer is no more than a worry or complaint session with God.
- I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God’s presence on my life.
- Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn’t want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.
- Complaining is to the devil what praise is to God.
- Prayers that don’t move you, won’t move Him.
- If you come out of an intense prayer time more depressed than when you went, you weren’t interceding, you were complaining.
- You can’t go in faith where you haven’t gone in intimacy.
- Make your thoughts and conversations consistent with your prayers.
- One of the most important features of being a minister unto the Lord is to have a heart for the voice of God.
- Where ever the church fails to pray, the enemy is happy to move in.
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