Leading people to a more intimate friendship with God
When your soul is turned within, it actually becomes separated from your external senses; and once your five senses are separated from your soul, they receive no more attention. Their life supply is cut off! They become powerless. Two great advantages will come to you if you proceed in the way I have described. First …
Christians have employed different means to overcome their desires. Perhaps the most common approach has been discipline and self-denial. But no matter how severe your self-denial is, it will never completely conquer your senses. No, self-denial is not the answer! Even when it appears to have worked, what it has actually done is to change …
“God uses my enjoyment of inward prayer, and of His presence, to draw me away from myself to Him. Yet if I become too attached to seeking these wonderful feelings and attempt to retire continually to enjoy them, God becomes jealous.” — Jeanne Guyon, “Intimacy with Christ”, p 134 Over the top drinking, wellbeing issue, …
“My times of prayer are erratic and consist of silent communion rather than prayers of petition. I pray most naturally when I am riding or walking. When I stay in one place to pray, my thoughts wander.” — François Fenelon in letter to Jeanne Guyon, in Jeanne Guyon, “Intimacy with Christ”, p 146 This is …
“My desire is to give myself totally to God and to love Him far more than I love myself. Why would I oppose anything that pleases Him? How could I do anything but give myself completely to Him? Who could run from the reign of a king whom one loves wholeheartedly?” — Jeanne Guyon, “Intimacy …
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“Intellectually, you can be aware of God, but you are only able to be lost in God by total and loving surrender of your will. When you have lost your own will in God, this is, indeed, the highest joy… Love, which carries the will along with it, changes you entirely. This is the true …
“When I try to follow society’s rules of protocol and do things only because they are socially expected, it becomes too easy to neglect to follow the quiet leadings that God gives me. I would not want to displease Him. I do not want to go against His will.” — Jeanne Guyon, “Intimacy with Christ”, …
“Beloved Lord, I have sought You. All my heart’s desires are found in You, and now I have found You! Reign as my King! Establish your empire within my! I will do your will alone. I give You all the rights that I once thought were mine. I give you back everything that, in your …
“There is no greater revelation than realizing you can do nothing of yourself. When a believer reaches this place, God takes everything from him so that he might have the Beloved alone. It is also a place in which you are shielded from the inroads of the enemy, for the enemy can reach only that …
“If you, wholly submitted to God, begin to do something that is not the will of God, you will feel a slight drawing back within yourself. You should then stop at once. If you feel no such warning, then go ahead and act, simply in faith.” — Jeanne Guyon, “Intimacy with Christ”, p 32 Calgary …