Josiah

“The praying life is the abiding life. Many Christians hit a wall when they connect abiding with asking. They freeze, thinking, If I were abiding, then I would get my prayers answered. Abiding feels elusive, like a spiritual pipe dream. Abiding is anything but disconnected from life. It is the way life should be done, in partnership with God.”
― Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World

“Usually, what bugs us the most about other people is true of us as well. By first taking the beam out of his own eye (see Matthew 7:1-5), the husband releases in his wife’s life the unseen energy of the Spirit. The kingdom is beginning to come.”
― Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World

“When we need advice, we find a wise person, ask him or her a question, and listen to the answer. It seldom occurs to us to do this with God. For starters, we don’t know how God will answer. We don’t hear an audible voice, so we dismiss the possibility of God speaking into our lives. In effect we are saying, “I must know how this will work ahead of time. I must be in control.” We forget that in most of life we don’t have control. When it comes to people, we often don’t know how things will work out ahead of time. We forget we are embodied spirits, designed to hear from God.”
― Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World

“Wisdom without power would be pathetic, a broken reed; power without wisdom would be merely frightening; but in God boundless wisdom and endless power are united, and this makes him utterly worthy of our fullest trust.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God