Quotes About Devotion

the first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is to obtain food for his inner man.

But if God invites and expects all his children—regardless of their age, IQ, education, or resources—to do the same thing—to pray—then prayer has to be simple.

meditation must follow hearing and precede prayer.

La adoración no se puede calcular ni producir.

La piedad requiere una adoración disciplinada.

La oración es, en un sentido, la expresión de una relación continua del cristiano con el Padre.

no es la mera lectura de la Biblia lo que nos convierte en «un hacedor eficaz» de ella, sino la meditación.

Find joy in God and you will find joy in doing the work of God.

Y sobre todo, este libro está dedicado a mi Señor y Salvador, Jesucristo. Todo esto, y de hecho toda la vida, es para ti y por ti. Después de haber hablado contigo miles de veces, no puedo esperar a verte.

the ongoing worship of God cannot be separated from the Word of God, which you don't expect to be read aloud or preached on the golf course or at the lake. We are to discipline ourselves to go and hear the Word of God.

El método Los Salmos: fueron diseñados para ser orados. Gordon Wenham

Puedes continuar orando de ese modo hasta que pase algo como esto: (1) se te acabe el tiempo o (2) se te acabe el salmo. Si se te acaba el salmo antes de que se te acabe el tiempo, entonces solo pasa la página y ve a otro salmo. Al hacerlo, no te faltará nada que decir y, lo mejor de todo es que nunca más dirás las mismas cosas de siempre sobre lo mismo de siempre.

Worship empowers serving; serving expresses worship. Godliness requires a disciplined balance between the two.

Si no entiendes el significado del versículo, ve al siguiente. Si el significado de ese versículo es muy claro, pero nada viene a tu mente para orar, pasa al siguiente. Solo habla con el Señor acerca de todo aquello que se te ocurre mientras lees la Palabra, sin prisa. Hazlo aun si —y esta parte del libro es, la más factible de ser mal interpretada— lo que viene a tu mente no tiene nada que ver con el texto.

To quote Charles Spurgeon, I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.1

You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.

Can we expect the flames of our worship of God to burn brightly in public on the Lord's Day when they barely flicker for Him in secret on other days?

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

If you will not worship God seven days a week," said A. W. Tozer, "you do not worship Him on one day a week.

I maintain that people—truly born-again, genuinely Christian people—often do not pray simply because they do not feel like it. And the reason they don't feel like praying is that when they do pray, they tend to say the same old things about the same old things.

Martin Luther expressed God's expectation of prayer this way: "As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray."[2]

To read the Bible and not to meditate was seen as an unfruitful exercise: better to read one chapter and meditate afterward than to read several chapters and not to meditate.

To pray the Bible, you simply go through the passage line by line, talking to God about whatever comes to mind as you read the text.

No Spiritual Discipline is more important than the intake of God's Word. Nothing can substitute for it. There simply is no healthy Christian life apart from a diet of the milk and meat of Scripture.