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“The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.”
― Bob Sorge, Glory: When Heaven Invades Earth

“Everything in the kingdom depends upon whether or not we hear the word of God. I will endure months of silence if He will but speak one creative word from His mouth to my spirit.

Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest.

The wisest thing you’ll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.

I never consider time invested in the secret place to be wasteful; and even if it is, I gladly waste it upon my Lord!

When you neglect the secret place, He’s not disappointed in you, He’s disappointed for you.

One day of exhilaration in the Holy Spirit is worth a thousand days of struggle! The greatest things in life—those things that carry eternal value—always come at the steepest price.

The closer you get to God, the more you realize He’s in no hurry.

No one can mentor you into an abiding relationship with Christ. We all have to find our own way to abiding in Christ. When all is said and done, we must shut the door, get into the secret place with God, and discover what an abiding relationship with Christ will look like for ourselves.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place: Keys to Igniting Your Personal Time With God

“Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“Nothing is more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a man or woman who has found the unceasing wellspring of heaven’s life.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“So the power of prayer is found, not in convincing God of my agenda, but in waiting upon Him to hear His agenda.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“He is everything, and as we are joined to Him the poverty of our personal identity is lost in the fullness of His eternal greatness.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“Don’t come to Jesus and try to be intellectually stimulating to Him. There’s nothing you could say that would cause Him to respond, “Wow, that’s a neat insight!” You may as well abort all attempts to be cerebral with Jesus; He simply doesn’t try to engage us at that level. Just come and love Him. He’s looking for heartfelt sincerity, for visceral passion, for authentic relationship.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“The release of power accelerated and released forces that were both positive and negative. When we understand the accelerating power of miracles, we understand why Jesus so often told those He healed to tell no one about it. Because when they broadcasted His miracles, it fueled the envy of His enemies. When their envy reached its fullness, His enemies crucified Him. By fueling their envy, every miracle took Jesus a step closer to His crucifixion”
― Bob Sorge, Opened From The Inside: Taking the Stronghold of Zion

“By lifting our hands, however, we are indicating to the Lord that we want to open up our hearts and lives to his Holy Spirit. But this is one of the most difficult things for us to do.”
― Bob Sorge, Exploring Worship: A Practical Guide to Praise & Worship

“To be set on fire, you must get close to God. When you feel cold, distant, and "out of it" spiritually, it's time to retreat to the closet, place yourself before the fireplace of His word, and allow the intensity of His face to restore your fervency.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place: Keys to Igniting Your Personal Time With God

“Finally, by lifting our hands we symbolically receive everything God is doing in our lives.”
― Bob Sorge, Exploring Worship: A Practical Guide to Praise & Worship

“The Secret of Radical Obedience Hearing God in the secret place is one of the greatest keys to the overcoming Christian life.  However, it must be linked with its corollary: radical obedience.  We hear, and then we do.  “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves” (James 1:22). By “radical obedience,” I mean immediate obedience that fulfills the commandment to its fullest measure.  Radical obedience does not seek to comply to the minimal standards but pursues extravagant, lavish fulfillment.  If Jesus says, “Sell all,” then we sell all!  Immediately. The New Testament word for obedience, hupakoe, is a compound word of two Greek words, hupo, “under,” and akouo, “to hear.”  So to obey is “to hear under.”  Obedience involves listening attentively with a heart of compliant submission and, then, obeying His word. Implicit obedience starts, for every one of us, not in doing good works but in sitting at His feet and hearing His word.  Devotion to the secret place is the saint’s first great act of obedience.  Jesus revealed this: But He answered them, saying, “Who is My mother, or My brothers?” And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother” (Mark 3:33-35). The will of God in that moment was for the people to sit at Jesus’ feet and hear His word.  Until you attend to this responsibility first, you will be constantly frustrated in your inability to uncover the joys of radical obedience.  Works of service gain their spiritual energy from the furnace of a fiery love relationship at Jesus’ feet. The true fulfillment of serving Jesus is discovered when we get first things”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things (Philippians 4:8).”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“Sin is like a cancer; God’s presence is like radiation on that cancer.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“When there’s wickedness in our hearts, God will wait until that wickedness surfaces. He is capable of applying as much heat as it takes to surface the garbage in our hearts, no matter how much we might try to mask our sinfulness with piety.”
― Bob Sorge, Fire of Delayed Answers

“I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding place I ask no other sunshine than The sunshine of His face Content to let the world go by To know no gain nor loss My sinful self my only shame My glory all the cross. (Elizabeth C. Clephane, Public Domain)”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“Humility says, “Lord, I am empty without Your fullness; I am broken without Your wholeness; I am helpless without Your strength; I am clueless without your wisdom. Apart from You I am nothing. I need You!”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“Mi corazón arde con el celo por Su intimidad, y la obediencia, lo único que hace, es alimentar ese fuego.”
― Bob Sorge, Secretos del lugar secreto: Llaves para avivar tu tiempo personal con Dios

“Conviértase en un buen arrepentido.”
― Bob Sorge, Secretos del lugar secreto: Llaves para avivar tu tiempo personal con Dios

“La oración es la calibración constante del alma.”
― Bob Sorge, Secretos del lugar secreto: Llaves para avivar tu tiempo personal con Dios

“Qué quiere decir meditar en la palabra de Dios? Significa bajar la velocidad de lectura y contemplar cada palabra y frase, buscando los significados más profundos y completos.”
― Bob Sorge, Secretos del lugar secreto: Llaves para avivar tu tiempo personal con Dios

“But to give you the fullness of what He has planned for your life, He will use the season of waiting to prepare you as a vessel, and also to prepare circumstances around your life so that you will be able to step forward into the proper sphere when His release comes to you.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“«Él hace… a sus servidores llamas de fuego»”
― Bob Sorge, Secretos del lugar secreto: Llaves para avivar tu tiempo personal con Dios

“1 For more on this, see my book, Power Of The Blood.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place Legacy Edition

“But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.”
― Bob Sorge, Envy: The Enemy Within

“Now that Jesus is with us, how can we host Him well?”
― Bob Sorge, Next Wave: Worship in a New Era

“Cuanto más cerca esté de Dios, más obediente debe ser.”
― Bob Sorge, Secretos del lugar secreto: Llaves para avivar tu tiempo personal con Dios

“For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?”
― Bob Sorge, Envy: The Enemy Within

“Jesus had four brothers (see Matthew 13:55) who couldn’t bring themselves to believe in Him throughout His ministry. It wasn’t until after His death and resurrection that they truly believed. What kind of transition would a person have to make in his mental framework to conclude that his older brother is the Creator of the universe? The transition was so huge that his brothers almost didn’t make it. Jesus, in His mercy, helped them by appearing personally after His resurrection to the half-brother who was closest in age to Him (see 1 Corinthians 15:7). Guess who wrote these words: “For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.” Jesus’ brother! James was Jesus’ younger brother (the verse above is from James 3:16). I can hear James saying, “Guys, envy almost ate me alive! Envy was such a huge issue in my heart, it almost cost me my salvation.” James was able to address the topic of envy from the authority of personal experience.”
― Bob Sorge, Envy: The Enemy Within

“Holiness is proximity to the throne.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place Legacy Edition