Monica Johnson Quotes

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

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.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.