Godly Focus Quotes

The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

Revival is not just a feeling of excitement of the Lord. We get excited about many things, but excitement is not a revival if God is not the thing that gets us excited.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

If God is first, and you kind of center everything else around Him being the main focal point, you really can make decisions that will not only mold you, but God will see exactly how you're making your decisions and then will bless you for it.

In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.