Eric Gilmour > Quotes

“So many of us go into prayer and never actually touch God because we did everything but adore Him. Many people's spiritual senses are numbed in the closet by all the pressure they put on themselves to be there and accomplish something. Our itch to accomplish something stems from our desire for something other than just Him.”
― Eric Gilmour, The School of His Presence

“Here is the problem: men would rather explain than adore. They would rather inquire than simply adore. Mary shows us that she is willing to worship Him despite not understanding. Certainly she had feelings and thoughts and questions about the situation—yet she was willing to throw them down, along with her own life, at the feet of Jesus. She is literally saying that Christ’s presence is more important than answers.”
― Eric Gilmour, Mary of Bethany

“Eden is teaching us that the pleasure of life is found in fellowship with His person. Enjoyment of God is the only platform upon which the exercising of His dominion and the pursuit of God is pure. Yes, enjoyment is the purest form of seeking God. And adoration is the highest form of enjoyment.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“The enjoyment of God will cause us to “walk not in the counsel of the ungodly.” Dear reader, to live our lives in delight will preoccupy our souls from ever listening to the counsel of those who don’t obey God. Listening to His voice will deafen our ears to the whole system of this world: its values, its mind-sets, and its self-rule.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“Sheep are free from burden and concern to make sure they are going the right way because they look at Him who is "The Way.”
― Eric Gilmour, To His Feet: A Call to Be Lambs

“Oh but to enjoy the person of God is to be ecstatically blinded by the beatific vision of God Himself. You can tell what is worthless to a person by how forgotten it is. The things of great value stay ever and always before us. The scornful man knows nothing of the delightful meditation upon the person of God.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“Intercession is the surest sign of intimacy with God for as a man draws near to God’s heart he will hear and feel what lies inside. Union with God is the merging of ecstasy and agony; the ecstasy of His presence and the agony of His heart. We pray out the things God has revealed in us.”
― Eric Gilmour, The School of His Presence

“Every problem in the human life can be traced back to one area or another that has not been mingled with God.”
― Eric Gilmour, The School of His Presence

“Delight will soon swallow discipline. You never have to tell a couple that has fallen in love to make time to be with each other; it is all they think about. They simply live to be together, and to be apart from each other makes them feel as if they are each dying a slow torturous death. If you have ever been in love, the real kind that robs you of any social existence, you know what I am taking about. In the same way, to be in love with Jesus means to love being with Him. Love causes delight to devour discipline.”
― Eric Gilmour, The School of His Presence

“The reconciliation is the restoration of God and man finding their pleasure in each other.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“True maturity in God is delighting in God whether or not we ever receive the answers to our prayers.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“Glorifying God is dependent on fruit. Fruit is dependent on Life and Life is dependent on the enjoyment of fellowship”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“Only the enjoyment of Christ can keep us in right relationship with God.” —Witness Lee (Life-Study of John)”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“In verse 9 of Genesis 2 the Scripture says that, “the Lord God made to grow.” Man is not toiling, sweating, and striving; that is the curse (Genesis 3:19). Man’s only job was to enjoy. This may upset people, but the means of stewardship is simply, enjoyment. The way to guard our delight in God is delighting in God. A dear friend called me one day and asked, “What is one major evidence that a man is maturing in God?” I blurted out without even thinking, “Daily enjoying sweet fellowship with God.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“He puts His desires in us so that walking in His will is delightful.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“So if we put all three together we have the facts laid out. An endless preoccupation with God Himself through delightful exchange with Him will save us from the destruction of… Listening to the patterns of thinking and value system of those who do not submit their lives to God. Sinfully and shamefully managing our own lives. Treating God with contempt.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“Oh David pictures for us his love for God when says that he will, “meditate upon Thee in the night watches” (Psalm 63:6). The “night watches” are special, not just the actual time of day when the sun has gone down or even the duration of “through the night,” but also in those times in life when there is no vision, no sight, totally unable to see what may come, still will I fix my eyes upon You.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“There is a wonderful aspect of God revealed in this passage. It is His Fatherhood nature that compels Him to open up His mouth and reveal to us His heart, His direction, and His wishes. Why do we hear His voice? We hear His voice because He is our Father. God only communicates with His own kind. This means that only by being born of Him are we recipients of Him.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“Adoration is incomplete until our souls are still. Many of us have this problem: we are looking to the Lord while simultaneously worried about other things. We are split in two. There is no such thing as dualistic adoration. This is why men cannot touch Him, because Holy Spirit fire only falls on a whole sacrifice. Partial attentiveness will never receive the touch of God. The Scripture even states that, “You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:13).”
― Eric Gilmour, The School of His Presence

“I believe the key to spiritual vitality is found right here in the first chapter of the book of Psalms. Though many words surround this phrase and lead up to it, the answer is nonetheless found in this beautiful string of words, “his leaf also shall not wither.” Whose leaf will not wither? The one who delights in the Lord. What does that actually mean, “the one who delights in the Lord”? It is simply the one who comes to God for satisfaction and consequently finds all his satisfaction in the person of God; the one who consistently comes to Christ for Life.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“Adoration is not a state of mind; it is the preoccupation of the soul with the beauty of the Lord. It is the purest form of seeking God, opening the valve of our receptivity and enabling us to cling to God. Adoration is like air in the Kingdom of God.”
― Eric Gilmour, The School of His Presence

“The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately and forever.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“The enemy’s attack on pleasure is really an attack on divine Life and therefore divine fruit. His attack is against the experience and enjoyment of our union with Christ. Ultimately, our fruitfulness and flourishing is an indication of enjoyment of our oneness with God. It is an outward sign that things are alive internally.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately and forever.” —A. W. Tozer (The Pursuit Of God)”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“adoration is the secret to experiencing the manifestation of His presence.”
― Eric Gilmour, The School of His Presence

“God makes things very simple for us. You don’t need to write these things down on a sheet of paper and check them off every day. God has shown us an easier way. It is as simple as “delighting in Him.” The enjoyment of God is the divine and simple remedy for the patterns of thinking of this world. Delighting in God is the antidote to self-rule and it is the valuing of God above all.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“What you give to Him and how much you give to Him and what you hold back are all measurements of the condition of your love for Him.”
― Eric Gilmour, Mary of Bethany

“The reconciliation is the restoration of God and man finding their pleasure in each other. Without this mutual satisfaction a man will not only lack fruit but he will also begin to lose Life and will little by little wither away.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“Most Christians don’t live a life of delight in God. It is important to note that our enemy knows that as long as man is dwelling in the place of pleasure, God Himself is our Life. God Himself causes increase and fruitfulness in our lives.”
― Eric Gilmour, How to Prosper in Everything

“Meditation is holding His speaking in the light of His presence until it unfolds, revealing more light.”
― Eric Gilmour, The School of His Presence