Dave A. Walker > Quotes

“God is too wise to be mistaken, God is too good to be unkind. So when you don’t understand When you don’t see His plan, When you can’t trace His hand, Trust His heart.”
― Dave A. Walker, God in the ICU

“So began my search for a God who is involved - not, as I thought, some far-off being or force who disinterestedly look son while we try to do the best we can with our ever-changing circumstances. I recognized that without Someone who could touch hearts and change lives from the inside, what I was doing was superficial and transitory We are all destined to die. If I prolonged that process by a few years and the person died unchanged on the inside, where was the lasting victory?”
― Dave A. Walker

“Throughout my profession I have seen Him at work almost daily bringing courage to a patient facing a major procedure, replacing their fear with peace upon entering the operating room; smoothing the way during difficult surgery; encouraging His children with a sense of His presence or providing comfort for anxious parents.”
― Dave A. Walker, God in the ICU

“This could not have happened by accident; God was there.”
― Dave A. Walker, God in the ICU

“I was lonely spiritually. Sometimes, driving to work, there would be the ghost of a prayer at the back of my mind, asking, "God, where are You?" but I was hardly conscious of it, and I never expected an answer.
However, God was preparing a surprise for me!”
― Dave A. Walker

“Yet the choice is always ours. God, like a true gentleman, always gives us the option. He will demonstrate His love, even lavish it on those who are far from Him with profound physical healing and the repeal of an apparent death sentence as he did with Mike, but He will never force Himself on us. Come to think of it, how could He? Love always has to be voluntary to be true.”
― Dave A. Walker

“I saw His faithfulness in responding to the prayers and the faith of the people that He loved and died for.”
― Dave A. Walker

“Often we expect God to do it all on His own. Sometimes He does and, of course, He is perfectly able to do that. Most times, however, He chooses to partner with us. The greatest way that He partners with us is in prayer.”
― Dave A. Walker, God in the ICU

“I was hungry, and, because I wanted my lunch, I nearly missed a powerful miracle that showed God's love and power to a family on the brink of tragedy.”
― Dave A. Walker

“Our encounter with other people gives us a tiny window into a small moment in their lives. God knows what they have been through, what is yet to come, and what thread in the tapestry of their lives is appropriate for that time.”
― Dave A. Walker

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― Dave A. Walker, God in the ICU

“God is not impressed with form. What He is looking for is obedience. So often I have felt really eloquent in my prayers and thought, "that was powerful. Surely God will respond to that prayer!" and little has happened . At other times, I have experienced no 'anointing' and yet God has moved powerfully.”
― Dave A. Walker

“This was my introduction into this world. When I was old enough to understand, and heard them recall the story, it engendered in me a sense of destiny. God had spared me for a purpose.”
― Dave A. Walker

“What an exciting turn my life took as I turned my attention away from myself and what I could do, towards a loving, powerful God and what He can do!”
― Dave A. Walker

“I awoke very early one morning bathed in the love of Jesus and with His presence filling the room with a kind of all-pervading peace. I knew without a doubt that He is personal and present with us, interested in what we are doing and waiting for us to include Him, through, prayer, in all that we do. I spent from 4 am till morning in prayer, talking to this wonderful God who I now realized, had been with me all my life, enabling me and guiding me, but whom I had ignored in my egotistical chase for my own glory.”
― Dave A. Walker

“Then, after praying as best I knew how, reading a Bible that didn't seem to make much sense, asking Him to help me with the anaesthetics that I thought I had been managing well on my own anyway, and quietly but desperately asking Him to show me if He was there, and cared, He came.”
― Dave A. Walker

“I lamented the loss of a God of love, as it seemed, in my eyes, that He has been replaced by Someone impersonal who looked on from above without intervening.”
― Dave A. Walker

“I learnt that even a whisper at the back of our minds can be a prompting from God to allow Him to do a mighty work.”
― Dave A. Walker

“Maybe you are not allowing Him to intervene and guide your life," they said. "You seem very self-sufficient and confident of your own ability. Why don;t you try asking for His help even if you think you can do it yourself?”
― Dave A. Walker

“With no external evidence, we had to believe that God had heard our prayers before his operation and that He was still in control. More than that, we had to believe that all things work together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. Doubts assailed me with every declaration of these truths as we prayed, but I had to put the doubts aside and trust that God is who He says He is; not only loving and faithful, but infinitely wiser than we are.”
― Dave A. Walker

“It was snowing and there, in the moonlight, was a scene of such beauty it struck my heart with wonder.”
― Dave A. Walker

“The common denominator is that each patient had an encounter with the living God. That encounter made a difference in some way. For some it set them thinking; for others it brought strength; others received physical healing and for others it was a welcome home.”
― Dave A. Walker