Henry Blackaby Quotes - Page 2

To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.

If we walk with Him closely today, we'll be in the center of His will tomorrow

God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.

The Christian never works toward victory, he always works FROM victory.

God is always at work around you.

It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God's.

Spiritual leadership is moving people on to God's agenda.

Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.

If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.

Don't put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for.

People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.

The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.

God is interested in developing your character. At times He lets you proceed, but He will never let you go too far without discipline to bring you back. In your relationship with God, He may let you make a wrong decision. Then the Spirit of God causes you to recognize that it is not God's will. He guides you back to the right path.

Some would define a servant like this: 'A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.' The human concept of a servant is that a servant goes to the master and says, 'Master, what do you want me to do?' The master tells him, and the servant goes off BY HIMSELF and does it. That is not the biblical concept of a servant of God. Being a servant of God is different from being a servant of a human master. A servant of a human master works FOR his master. God, however, works THROUGH His servants.

If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.

Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.

If things are getting darker, the problem is with us.

If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).

Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.

If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.

Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'