Frases de Bill Hybels

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“Pessoas que levam a sério uma coisa, sempre encontram um espaço na sua agenda para encaixá-la. Se a oração é importante para você, então encontre um tempo para orar.”

“A ideia de que Deus não liga para seus filhos tem raiz na mentira.”

“Se o que pedimos é errado, Deus diz não. Se o tempo é errado, Deus diz, Devagar. Se você está errado, Deus diz, Cresça. Mas se o que pedimos é certo, o tempo é certo e você está certo, Deus diz: Vá em frente!”

“Nossos espíritos são como nossos corpos, e tem necessidades de saúde e crescimento. Algumas pessoas não querem pagar o preço de desenvolver hábitos espirituais saudáveis.”

“Quando nós temos o hábito de orar, nós ficamos constantemente sintonizados na presença de Deus e abertos a receber suas bençãos.”

“If your ear is open to the afflicted, God will keep his ear open to you.”

“I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, "Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way."”

“If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.”

“If you're a parent, you know how incredibly good it feels when one of your children spontaneously thanks you for something. God is our Father, and he, too, is moved when we express our thanksgiving.”

“I soon began writing out my whole prayer and reading it back to God. Previously I'd get no further than "Dear God" and I'd already be thinking of the person I was going to meet for lunch or the board meeting agenda or what my family members and I would be doing later that evening. But when I began to move pen across paper, it became much easier to remain focused.”

“When I lump all my sins together and confess them en masse, I neglect to feel the pain or embarrassment or shame that should be elicited in me.”

“Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.”

“If you're tolerating sin in your life, my friend, don't waste your breath praying unless it's a prayer of confession.”

“Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.”

“God is committed to developing a people who will reflect his character in this world, and his character always expresses concern and compassion for the afflicted.”

“When the spirit of adoration takes over and we begin pondering God's attributes, we soon say from the heart, 'I am praying to a tremendous God!' Which only motivates us to keep on praying.”

“If the request is wrong, God says, "No." If the timing is wrong, God says, "Slow." If you are wrong, God says, "Grow." But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, "Go!"”

“The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.”