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1 " God made you for His pleasure. And He made you intrinsically needy and dependent on His unspeakable joy. If you are struggling with sin our addiction, don’t try to kill your appetite for pleasure. It is impossible. Just direct it to the source of all pleasure. You will be amazed to find that He has perfectly and supernaturally designed you to have all your deepest needs met in Him "
― , The Ecstasy of Loving God
2 " Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide "
3 " God wants a people addicted to His pleasure, a people who serve Him for no other reason than the delight they take in Him. This is the very heart of worship. It is not self-centred. It is putting God at the very centre of self so that self cannot possibly be satisfied without Him. "
4 " How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision. "
5 " Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise. "
6 " Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine "
7 " Let go into His arms untill you find yourself obsessed with things devine "
8 " God is good, not in some abstract, religious definition of the word "good." Not a "sit still, shut up and say your prayers" good. Not just "good for you" like cough medicine. God is really sweet, yummy to the tummy, delectable and exquisite-taste and see that the Lord is good! "
9 " The love of God should electrify us, push us to hunger, and stir a fiery passion in our bones that cannot be quenched. Consistent lack of emotion in our spiritual walk can often be defined in one simple word: complacency. "
10 " Don’t look to wine for your stimulation. That leads only in the direction of ruin. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Let Him exhilarate your soul and even the excess will be turned to joy in the Lord! Then as you speak to one another, the ecstasy will rise still higher. Your tongues will be loosed in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, rather than carousing. "
11 " What is God drunk on? Your love. "
12 " And he blessed him and said: “Blessed [favored with blessings, made blissful, joyful] be Abram of God Most High, Possessor [and Maker] of heaven and earth” (Genesis 14:19). "
13 " The inward working of God’s goodness tends to produce an uncontrollable wildfire when He takes the helm of clinical, religious sobriety—when He turns our water into wine. "
14 " emphasis on…miraculous intervention.”1 Take a moment to picture an early Methodist meeting. They were full of stamping, shouting, weeping, wailing, and people falling to the floor in trances all over the place. These were wild God encounters, and prophetic utterances and visions were taken seriously. It was reported that you could hear the meetings from miles away. In one Methodist meeting in 1807 for instance, Hugh Bourne was speaking to thousands of people on God’s judgment, and “many ran away, while others fell upon each other in heaps.”2 As John Wesley and George Whitefield "
