Quotes about Preparation

God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.

Am I prepared for His coming? Jesus cannot come and do His work in me as long as there is anything blocking the way, whether it is something good or bad. When He comes to me, am I prepared for Him to drag every wrong thing I have ever done into the light?

When we pray, asking God to sanctify us, are we prepared to measure up to what that really means?

If you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by a storm and send you out.

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a multitude of experiences that are not meant for you at all, they are meant to make you useful in His hands.

What people call preparation, God sees as the goal itself...if we realize that moment-by-moment obedience is the goal, then each moment as it comes is precious.

Are we prepared to pray with Murray McCheyne, "Lord, make me as holy as Thou canst make a sinner saved by grace"?

Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to "set your words on fire" for His glory.

We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing—that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God's assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

And Scripture is clear—this is not paradise, and it won't be. Rather, this moment is a time of preparation for the paradise that is to come, where everything that sin has broken will be fully restored to what God originally intended it to be.

The reality that on every morning brand-new mercy greets us is not the thing that grips our minds as we frenetically prepare for our day.