Quotes About Devotion

Without words, protestations, or vows, I have laid my life in your hands. You fail me, and, I repeat once more, you are quite right in acting thus; nevertheless in losing you I lose part of my life.

So I made up my mind to start praising Him more in the Spirit. At first, I did not immediately feel the presence of God come on me. But as time went on, over the course of the next weeks and months, I began to feel the presence of the Lord growing on me.

Praying much in tongues is one way to develop an ear to hear the voice of the Lord. When we pray much in tongues we are allowing the Holy Ghost to speak through us.

We are Love just as God is Love. We seek oneness with God that can only be found when we become Love.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.

the murmuring priests

By praying the Psalms back to God, we learn to pray in tune with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Ben Patterson

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven.

yo sostengo que eso no pasaría mucho si se ciñeran a orar mientras leen el texto. De esta forma, el Espíritu de Dios usará la Palabra de Dios para ayudar al pueblo de Dios a orar cada vez más de acuerdo a la voluntad de Dios.

Has your worship or devotional experience lately provided you with ravishing tastes of what A. W. Tozer called the "piercing sweetness" 7 of Christ, only to leave you with a divine discontent that desires more?

Las personas deben sentirse libres de orar sobre todo lo que les venga a la mente mientras leen un pasaje de las Escrituras.

Without absorption of the water of God's Word, there's no quenching our spiritual thirst. Meditation is the means of absorption.

Si usted desea ser transformado, si quiere ser más semejante a Jesucristo, disciplínese para leer la Biblia.

meditaba en Hebreos 12:29: «Porque nuestro Dios es un fuego que todo lo consume».

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).

You might think of praying without ceasing as communicating with God on one line while also taking calls on another. Even while you are talking on the other line, you never lose your awareness of the need to return your attention to the Lord. So praying without ceasing means you never really stop conversing with God; you simply have frequent interruptions.

Prayerful people become godly people, for prayerfulness with God cultivates godliness in all of life.

But the main reason why the psalms work so well in prayer is that the very purpose God put them in his Word to us is for us to put them in our words to him.

Godliness requires disciplined worship.

Without a clear biblical purpose, fasting becomes an end in itself.

Pray over the Scriptures. Christians just setting out on the path of prayer sometimes pray for everything they can think of, glance at their watches, and discover they have been at it for all of three or four minutes. This experience sometimes generates feelings of defeat, discouragement, even despair. A great way to begin to overcome this problem is to pray through various biblical passages.

Sixth, the Spiritual Disciplines are means, not ends. The end—that is, the purpose of practicing the Disciplines—is godliness.

The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven. When