Quotes About Spirituality

Get in the Word until the Word gets in you. Cast down evil imaginations.

To walk in a deep and consistent level of the anointing requires a price of personal sacrifice—spending more time with God than with people, fasting, and separating yourself in prayer and study of the Word. The anointing activates the presence of God, mixing it with a person's faith, and brings deliverance to the body, mind, and spirit.

They have possessions without power, wealth without true worship, and prosperity without God's presence!

When your eyes are on prosperity, they are moved away from the parousia, a Greek word for the Lord's coming

In the Holy of Holies is the BEST of God's presence!

Many people today are too bold to speak against men and women who are anointed of God.

God revealed Himself progressively through visions, dreams, visible manifestations and through His many names.

The length and power of the sword is dependent upon the amount of Word you have hidden in your spirit.

But if you read about, talk about, and brag about Jesus, then Jesus will show up.

Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.

Split the atom's heart, and low Within it thou wilt find a sun.

Everyone prays,' he pointed out. 'Even non-Christians pray. The difference when Christians do it is that they are climbing into the lap of their heavenly Father.

The best bit of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.

A Christian who prays only when they feel like it may survive but they will never thrive. Their vast, innate potential will be stunted because grace needs a little space to take root between the cracks of a person's life.

As the Trappist monk Thomas Merton says: 'God is far too real to be met anywhere other than in reality.

See Toolshed: How to Fast.)

Jesus is what God sounds like. He's literally the "living Word of God." Hearing his voice is not so much a skill we must master, therefore, as a master we must meet.

God is far too real to be met anywhere other than in reality.'9

To truly encounter Jesus is to be knocked sideways, astonished, overwhelmed. Mild interest means you have not yet met him. —Simon Ponsonby

First, we must learn to read the Bible with our heads, in order to understand what is actually, objectively, being said. And second, we must learn to read it with our hearts, in order to experience God's voice through its pages. By carefully studying the Bible, we come to understand what its writers were originally saying. And by prayerfully exploring it, we learn to discern what the Holy Spirit is saying to us now.

Por eso esas palabras de Barth son reconfortantes: Lo que forja a un hombre de oración es que se presente delante de Dios con su petición. Las otras teorías de la oración pueden haber surgido de pensamientos muy profundos y pueden lucir muy bien, pero todas sufren de cierta artificialidad porque carecen de algo simple y concreto: se pierden en las alturas y profundidades donde no hay lugar para el hombre que realmente ora, que simplemente hace una petición.4

God is mobilising an army, but it is a broken army that marches on its knees.

Put salt in our mouths that we may thirst for you.' Amen. (Prayer of St Augustine)

Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.