John Ashcroft Quotes

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

As we read spiritually about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God's voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down the book we are reading and just listen to what God is saying to us through our words.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

You need to have time to really hear God.

I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

Since the world began, God has raised up prophets who speak the will of heaven to the people of their times. It is our responsibility to listen and then apply the messages the Lord provides for us.

The Lord is going to keep His people informed if they will listen.

God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?

We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention.

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

The most important thing of all is that God is talking to me.

When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him can come the word which can speak peace to troubled spirits; the voices of men are feeble in such a case, a plaster far too narrow for the sore; but God's voice is power, He speaks and it is done, and hence when we hear Him our distress is ended.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.

Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams

Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

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

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

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.

During the primary, I heard the audible voice of God. … He said, 'Credibility.' It wasn't a thought in my head. I thought it meant I was going to win. But after the primary, I got credibility.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.