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Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series) QUOTES

Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series) QUOTES

1 " When programs, methods, and money produce impressive results, there is an inclination to confuse human success with divine blessing. Christians can actually behave like practical humanists, living as if God were not necessary. When that happens, passionate longing for God and yearning for His help will be missing—along with His empowerment. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

2 " No spiritual exercise is such a blending of complexity and simplicity. It is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try, yet the sublimest strains that reach the Majesty on high. It is as appropriate to the aged philosopher as to the little child. It is the ejaculation of a moment and the attitude of a lifetime. It is the expression of the rest of faith and of the fight of faith. It is an agony and an ecstasy. It is submissive and yet importunate. In the one moment it lays hold of God and binds the devil. It can be focused on a single objective and it can roam the world. It can be abject confession and rapt adoration. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

3 " A Christian should carry the weapon of all prayer like a drawn sword in his hand. We should never sheathe our supplications. Never may our hearts be like an unlimbered gun, with everything to be done to it before it can thunder on the foe, but it should be like a piece of cannon, loaded and primed, only requiring the fire that it may be discharged. The soul should be not always in the exercise of prayer, but always in the energy of prayer; not always actually praying, but always intentionally praying.1 "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

4 " Imagine spending an entire workday with your best friend at your side. You would no doubt acknowledge his presence throughout the day by introducing him to your friends or business associates and talking to him about the various activities of the day. But how would your friend feel if you never talked to him or acknowledged his presence? Yet that’s how we treat the Lord when we fail to pray. If we communicated with our friends as infrequently as some of us communicate with the Lord, those friends might soon disappear. Our fellowship with God is not meant to wait until we are in heaven. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

5 " It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life.… "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

6 " God’s purpose in prayer is not for us to inform or persuade Him to respond to our needs but to open sincere and continual lines of communication with Him. Prayer, more than anything else, is sharing the needs, burdens, and hungers of our hearts with a God who cares. He wants to hear us and commune with us more than we could ever want to commune with Him, because His love for us is so much greater than our love for Him. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

7 " For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

8 " It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life.… Ultimately, therefore, a man discovers the real condition of his spiritual life when he examines himself in private, when he is alone with God.… And have we not all known what it is to find that, somehow, we have less to say to God when we are alone than when we are in the presence of others? It should not be so; but it often is. So that it is when we have left the realm of activities and outward dealings with other people, and are alone with God, that we really know where we stand in a spiritual sense.3 "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

9 " Our fellowship with God is not meant to wait until we are in heaven. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

10 " The man who came to his friend to ask for bread did not recite some formula request; he pleaded for what he needed. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

11 " The essence of prayer is simply talking to God as you would to a beloved friend—without "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

12 " communion with God is so vital and prayer so effective in the fulfillment of God’s plan, the enemy attempts constantly to introduce errors into our understanding of "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

13 " prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you or provide for your selfish desires "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

14 " A Christian should carry the weapon of all prayer like a drawn sword in his hand. We should never sheathe our supplications. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

15 " Prayer that focuses on self is always hypocritical because every true prayer focuses on God. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

16 " Prayer begins and ends not with the needs of man but with the glory of God "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

17 " God’s greatest desire, and our greatest need, is to be in constant fellowship with Him now, and "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

18 " Alone with God—such an opportunity should be the Christian’s one great desire. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

19 " All Christians ought to necessarily have their hearts focused on God so that communion with Him is an everyday, natural function of their lives. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)

20 " All the resources of heaven are available to us when we trust God as our heavenly supplier. "

― John F. MacArthur Jr. , Alone With God (MacArthur Study Series)