Quotes about Inspiration

A prophetic word is a special inspired message or word that a person receives in his or her inner spirit after a season of fasting and extended prayer or, at times, through an inspired utterance from Scripture and occasionally confirmed by a vocal gift from another believer.

Get in the Word until the Word gets in you. Cast down evil imaginations.

God places tools of faith and objects of faith in our lives to encourage us to continue believing the promises.

God always moves upon a person before He moves within a person.

First, we must learn to read the Bible with our heads, in order to understand what is actually, objectively, being said. And second, we must learn to read it with our hearts, in order to experience God's voice through its pages. By carefully studying the Bible, we come to understand what its writers were originally saying. And by prayerfully exploring it, we learn to discern what the Holy Spirit is saying to us now.

Prayer can detonate mission.

There's little point in lectio divina without the Holy Spirit's help.

A successful leader must lead by example.

Washington could not have called on his men to be such authentic Christians, if he was not trying to be such a Christian as well.

When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey.

If we let the Bible be the Bible, on its own terms—on God's terms—we will see this in-fleshing God at work, not despite the challenges, the unevenness, and ancient strangeness of the Bible, but precisely because of these things. Perhaps not the way we would have written our sacred book, if we had been consulted, but the one that the good and wise God has allowed his people to have.

The Bible—from back to front—is the story of God told from the limited point of view of real people living at a certain place and time.