Bill Johnson Quotes

Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.

I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the back end.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

I believe that whatever I do, after I've asked for guidance and direction from God, that whatever the results, these are the results of His guidance.

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

If we have trouble hearing Him, He will faithfully work in our lives until we are pointed in the direction He wants us to go.

When God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.

Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year.

The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God.

If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an anointing on "now" if God has told you to act.

It is through the repeated process of feeling impressions, recording them, and obeying them that one learns to depend on the direction of the Spirit more than on communication through the other five senses.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.

Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.

Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.

and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.