Prayer – Communication with God
People who love each other talk to each other. What they think and feel, they express. The deeper the intimacy, the deeper the communication. As believers, prayers is the language of our relationship with God. Because he is spirit, we do not always use words: thoughts, feelings- even groans are part of our interaction (Psalm 38:8-9; Romans 8:26)
As we grow close to him, we also hear back from Him – authoritatively through scripture and personally through inner promptings and leadings. As we deepen our prayer life, the confidence, humility and love we find with God spills over into all of life….Bill Hybels

The use of scripture is transformational, not informational - as we come to know it more, we aren't satisfied until we come to know Him well.

Bill Hybels

Knowing me better than I know myself, God expects failure from me. I am more sinful that I ever imagined - and also more loved by God....P. Yancey

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

I have a confession to make: I only study deeply because the Bible is the only thing I trust in life. My life is as messy as anyone else’s – I have family troubles, job issues, financial needs and emotional challenges that could probably use some therapy. I struggle with sins just as much as anyone. I am not “there” yet, wherever that might be. I cling to the scriptures and try to point people to them because I’ve tried a lot of other things, and the scriptures are singularly reliable. I’m too afraid to trust anything else. …Scott Birkhead

“It is better to listen in order to understand than to listen in order to reply”

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.-- Frank Laubach

"Truth, no matter how powerful, never forces itself upon us." Anonymous

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are…..C. S. Lewis

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake. - Robert McAfee Brown, in his book, Elie Wiesel Messenger To All Humanity

"The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is because they have a common enemy." ---Unknown


I don't necessarily believe this quote but it sure is a great segue to my bragging about my Grandkids....check them out......

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. ~ Mary Gardiner Brainard


(would I really…??? all this wrestling maybe......I hope so….I pray so…)

God never forces himself upon us or works in us beyond what we are willing to allow him to do. If we do not grow in love, it is not because his love for us is limited, but because we set limits to what his love can do in us— Thomas Green, When the Well Runs Dry

Things that make you go hmmmmmm.......

Oswald Chambers: God's revelation of Himself to me is determined by my character, not by God's character. "'Tis because I am mean, Thy ways so oft look mean to me."

Take out mean and replace with how you see Him......

What is one thing you would want God to tell you??

If you could ask God one question....what would it be??

DOUBLE CRAP

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image. -- A. W. Tozer

THE GOSPEL message says: "You don't live in a mechanistic world ruled by necessity; you don't live in a random world ruled by chance; you live in a world ruled by the God of Exodus and Easter. He will do things in you that neither you nor your friends would have supposed possible. …"EUGENE H. PETERSON, Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work