Henry Blackaby quotes

Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Jesus #Priorities #Taught

How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Believe #Live Your Life #Life Is

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.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Spiritual #People #Profound

Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must be that way, for God's glory and kingdom. 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. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Answers #World #Want

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.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Christian #Character #Discipline

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?
-- Henry Blackaby

#Christian #Wall #Tragedy

Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Prayer

God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Believe #Guides #Command

Missions is God finding those whose hearts are right with Him and placing them where they can make a difference for His kingdom
-- Henry Blackaby

#Christian #Heart #Differences

Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Want #Facts #Difficulty

All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the "great fruit of revival." In times of revival, thousands may be found on their knees for hours, lifting up their heartfelt cries, with thanksgiving, to heaven.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Prayer #Heaven #Heartfelt

God has a right to interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Want #Helping #Lord

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

#Christian #Prayer #Heart

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.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Prayer #Mean #Church

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.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Character #Giving #Attention

It is impossible to worship God and remain unchanged
-- Henry Blackaby

#Christian #Impossible #Worship

Watch to see where God is working and join Him in His work.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Watches

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

#Ordinary #Truth Is #Dedicated

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

#Voice #Effort #Tunes

God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Thinking #People #Decision

The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Christian #Needs #World

A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Tests #God Love #Loving God

If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Love You #God Love #God Loves You

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

#Achievement #Position

The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Reality #Lord #Qualified

You cannot stay where you are and go with God. You cannot continue doing things your way and accomplish God's purpose in His ways. Your thinking cannot come close to God's thoughts. For you to do the will of God, you must adjust your life to Him, His purposes, and His ways
-- Henry Blackaby

#Christian #Thinking #Purpose

If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Christian #Talking #Goal

We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Want

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.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Biblical #Doe #Different

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

#Problem

What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Christian #Children #Father

If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!
-- Henry Blackaby

#Christian #Heart #Doe

During true revival, thousands of lost people are suddenly swept into the Kingdom of God. Scenes of the lost coming to the Savior in great, and unprecedented numbers, are common.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Numbers #People #Kingdoms

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

#Spiritual #Moving #People

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.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Spirit #Glory #Function

God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Guides #Command

The Christian never works toward victory, he always works FROM victory.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Christian #Victory

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

#Today #Tomorrow #Walks

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.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Self #Essence #Centeredness

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.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Love You #Giving #Debate

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.
-- Henry Blackaby

#People #Love Relationship #Return

When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Jesus #Encounters #Events

God is always at work around you.
-- Henry Blackaby

Scripture is not a concept; scripture is a person (John 1:1,14). When you stand before the Word of God, you are not merely encountering a concept; you are standing face-to-face with God.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Scripture #Faces #Word Of God

You cannot stay the way you are and go with God.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Way

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

#People #Labels #Christ

Teach yourself to thankfully receive all that God gives you as evidence of His love and faithfulness, and then you'll find it easier to trust Him next time.
-- Henry Blackaby

#God #Christian #Giving

When leaders claim that God bypasses their followers and speaks directly to them, they greatly diminish all God does through the lives of believers.Leaders who begrudge people the opportunity to seek God themselves and who do not actively teach their people how to hear God's voice have disqualified themselves as spiritual leaders.
-- Henry Blackaby

#Spiritual #Opportunity #Voice