Leading people to a more intimate friendship with God
“Silence. I don’t hear anything… But I’m not going to let that be the verdict on my relationship with God today. This is really important, friends. We don’t know on any given day all that playing into why we can’t seem to hear from God. It could be that I’m still too distracted… It could …
“God wants us to be happy… but he knows that we cannot truly be happy until we are completely his and until he is our all. And the weaning process is hard… The sorrows of our lives are in great part his weaning process. We give our hearts over to so many things other than …
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“When it comes to crises or events that really upset us, this I have learned: you can have God or you can have understanding. Sometimes you can have both. But if you insist on understanding, it often doesn’t come. And that can create distance between you and God, because you’re upset and demanding an explanation …
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“Sometimes what I will do is ‘try on’ one answer and then the other. Still in a posture of quiet surrender, I ask the Lord, Is it yes, you want us to go? Pause. In my heart I am trying it on, letting it be as though this is God’s answer… Quite often we can …
“To hear the voice of God, we must be in a posture of quiet surrender… To hear that gentle whisper, we have to settle down. Shut out all the drama. Quiet our hearts… Am I willing to hear whatever it is God wants to say? This is absolutely critical… There is no more decisive issue …
“An intimate, conversational walk with God is available, and is meant to be normal… If you don’t find that kind of relationship with God, your spiritual life will be stunted. And that will handicap the rest of your life… Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives. It’s why God created us… Jesus says …
“Name one thing in your life that you really enjoy doing that didn’t require practice to get there… [It is also true of] our walk with God… It’s awkward at first and sometimes we feel stupid. But if we hang in there, we do begin to get it, and as it becomes more and more …
“It is our deepest need, as human beings, to learn to live intimately with God. It is what we were made for… Before the fall of man… there was a paradise called Eden… What they enjoyed above all the other delights of that was this — they walked with God. They talked with him, and …
“The Scriptures employ a wide scale of metaphors to capture the many facets of our relationship with God. If you consider them in a sort of ascending order, there is a noticeable and breathtaking progression. Down near the bottom of the totem pole we are the clay and he the Potter. Moving up a notch, …
“The heart-cry of every soul is for intimacy with God. For this we were created and for this we were rescued from sin and death. In Ephesians, Paul lets us in on a little secret: We’ve been more than noticed. God has pursued us from farther than space and longer ago than time. Our romance …