Quotes About Spiritual

Prayer is picking a fight with the Enemy. It's spiritual warfare. Intercession transports us from the sidelines to the front lines without going anywhere. And that is where the battle is won or lost. Prayer is the difference between us fighting for God and God fighting for us. But we can't just hit our knees. We also have to take a step, take a stand. And when we do, we never know what God will do next.

The spiritual tipping point is when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of change. Sadly, too many of us get comfortable with comfort. We follow Christ to the point of inconvenience, but no further. That's when we need a prophet to walk into our lives, throw a mantle around our shoulders, and wake us up to a new possibility, a new reality. We need a prophet to boldly confront Plan B and call us back to Plan A.

The path of least resistance never gets us where we want to go. Shortcuts always end up being cul-de-sacs. The key to spiritual growth is the willingness to go out of your way for God. You will find God in uncomfortable places at inconvenient times. But if you go out of your way for God, God will go out of His way for you. Crash the party!

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

According to the law of requisite variety, the survival of any system depends on its capacity to cultivate variety in its internal structures. Disequilibrium is life ... When I'm in a spiritual slump, nine times out of ten, something sacred has become routine ... one of the ways I snap out of a spiritual slump is by disturbing by routine and experimenting with spiritual disciplines.

So how do we conserve the momentum of God's blessing? At the risk of sounding like a memorandum issued by the department of redundancy department, the only way to maintain momentum is to flip the blessing. If we fail to flip the blessing, we hit the point of diminishing return. Eventually, we lose all spiritual momentum and wonder why. I'll tell you exactly why: God doesn't bless selfishness.

If you're in a spiritual slump, let me give you a prescription: go on a mission trip.33 There is no better or sure way of coming out of the cage of routine. It's a cure-all.

Is it possible that what we perceive to be relational, emotional, and spiritual problems are actually hearing problems -- ears that have been deafened to the voice of God? And it's that inability to hear His voice that causes us to lose our voice and lose our way.

Consecration is a process of surrender that never ends. And prayer is the catalyst. It begins with a sinner's prayer. We confess our sins to the Savior and surrender our lives to His lordship. And along the way, our spiritual journeys are

Prayer is priming. Prayer puts us in a spiritual frame of mind. Prayer helps us see and seize the God-ordained opportunities that are all

Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future.

Praying hard is not the past of least resistance; it's usually the path of most resistance because we engage in spiritual warfare. In fact, when we begin interceding for others, we better make sure that others are interceding for us. We need a prayer circle that provides a prayer covering.

Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." Colossians 3:2

Although the things I am talking about sound uncanny – weird – they are nevertheless real. These kind of things are all possible doorways. If they have been prayed over and committed to that purpose, they become a doorway, with spirits having a permission to come through.

When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.

I went to the Protestant cemetery, and it sounds really morbid, but when I came here, I thought that this is where I want to die. I feel spiritually found here.

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.

Ephesians 6:10-20 is the classic New Testament text on spiritual warfare. We could call it the believer's field manual for spiritual warfare.

Satan loves politics. He is the greatest politician of all time. He politicked in heaven and convinced a third of the angels to join his rebellious political party.

This is no accident. Satan's attack on marriages and the family is real and relentless. As someone has said, "When you get married, that's when the war begins.

The pattern is sadly familiar in church history: a cooling of the church's love for Christ, then its replacement by a love for the things of the world, resulting in compromise and spiritual corruption, followed by a departure from the faith and loss of effective spiritual testimony.

To ignore Satan and his strategies is to commit spiritual suicide.

But to become preoccupied with Satan and his kingdom is equally dangerous.