Waiting on God prepares for greater blessing. God has greater plans than you have realized. Prayer has one function, and that is to answer ‘Yes’ when He knocks, to open the soul and give Him the opportunity to bring us the answer.
Listening
Albert Haase
To advance further along the spiritual road, we must surrender control, become receptive and have the humility to be led.
Andrew Murray
Some read the Bible to learn and some read the Bible to hear from heaven.
Francois Fenelon
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him.
Thomas Watson
God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10: 17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.
Francois Fenelon
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
Dwight L Moody
I prayed for Faith, and I thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, “Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God”…I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since.
William McGill
The value of persistent prayer is not that he will hear us, but that we will finally hear him.
Andrew Murray
Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God’s voice is its most essential part. Listening to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.
Cyril Brooks
In radio or TV terms we are receivers. If we do occasionally transmit signals, we transmit only what we have first received. Everything has been given to us from life in the womb to life in the Spirit. We are beneficiaries, totally blessed because totally loved by God. Sanctity after all is only letting the love of God loose, letting him rampage through our lives.