Quotes about Obstacle

Why doesn't God reveal Himself to you? He cannot. It is not that He will not, but He cannot, because you are in the way as long as you won't abandon yourself to Him in total surrender.

Is there something in your life that not only disturbs you, but makes you a disturbance to others? If so, it is always something you cannot handle yourself. "Then those who went before warned him that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more" (Luke 18:39). Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face-to-face with the Lord Himself.

But Edom insisted, “You may not pass through.” And they came out to confront the Israelites with a large army and a strong hand.

Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.

“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;

Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”

The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”

“Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.

Once again he measured off a thousand cubits, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough for swimming—a river that could not be crossed on foot.