“Each moment of our days--our meals, our conversations with friends, our escapes, obsessions, romances, and distractions--is what we make of our lives. Our habits and rhythms of life are formative not only of who we are but how we know the world, including whether we know it to be a place where God is present or absent.”
Source: Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World
“To come to live in the kingdom of God, or to seek to live in a world other than our disenchanted milieu, requires a wholesale reordering of our habits and commitments.”
Source: Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World
“It is not great faith we need so much as faith in a great God." - Hudson Taylor”
Source: Prayer: A Biblical Perspective
“The balance of truth regarding solidarity and corporate prayer in the Bible seems to be that no-one can engage in public prayer who does not know what it is to engage with God in private. But the man or woman who has begun to pray in private will gravitate to the fellowship of praying people in the church.”
Source: Prayer: A Biblical Perspective
“Fasting is abiding on a gut level—an empty gut level.”
Source: The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
“One thing that’s solely yours and that can never be taken away from you by anyone is the decision to always move on.”
“You must remain in the Word. Five minutes of nibbling on a verse in the morning won’t fill you up and fuel you through the other 1,435 minutes of the day. You need a continual feast to carry you through long fasting days. First Thessalonians 5:17 tells you to “pray without ceasing.” If praying is talking to God, then reading God’s Word is listening. Let’s make the conversation a continual feast! Read and pray, then read and pray some more. Let your fasting days propel you into a feasting life.”
Source: The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
“The presence of God is our present-reward when we join Him in giving and caring for others; the nearness of God is our near-reward when we join Him in prayer; and as we empty ourselves through fasting, we experience the reward of His fullness.”
Source: The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
“The reward for giving and praying and fasting is found in the giving and praying and fasting. Because fasting and praying and giving allow us to experience more of Him. And He is everything. Our reward is the intimacy forged in prayerful conversation with the One who stitched us and knows us and sits enthroned within us and over us.”
Source: The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
“Scottish minister Andrew Bonar said, “Fasting is abstaining from anything that hinders prayer.” Not just food. Anything. As a matter of fact, Bonar often fasted from reading in order to spend more time with the Lord. Reading! His example ought to challenge us to consider what else might be hindering our intimate friendship with the Lord. If we want to experience His sustaining hand in our lives, it may be a good idea to take a season to set aside anything that might be in our hands. I like to say it this way: We abstain so that He might sustain. This isn’t just about food. We don’t just run to the pantry—we run to online games, we run to romance novels, and we run to Starbucks too.”
Source: The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation