Mike Bickle Quotes

God doesn't love you more when you obey, you experience Him more!

The small prayers of weak and broken people move the heart of God.

Don't evaluate yourself, don't evaluate others. Just keep going after it.

Jesus wants us to love Him in a way that gives Him full leadership over our lives.

God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.

The foolish took their lamps, but took no oil (pursued ministry as their priority over getting oil). The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps (pursued oil as their priority before ministry). At the dark midnight hour of history, the Spirit will raise up forerunners who cry out that Jesus is coming as a Bridegroom God and that we must go out to meet Him (make the necessary effort to encounter Him). They all slept which speaks of living in context to the natural processes of life.

Demons don't move because we complain. They move because we speak the name of Jesus.

Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.

Jesus called us to abide in Him. The foundation of this reality means to talk with Him.

If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up.

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 - JOHN CALVIN

We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.

I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ.

On the other hand, Jesus rebuked those who could not receive because of their lack of faith in Him.

Our work for God is to flow from loving God; thus, we work with Him instead of for Him.

Intercession is God's brilliant strategy for including the saints in ruling with Him in power. Yet, it has such great impact on us as it draws us into intimacy with God, protects with humility, transforms with holiness, anoints with power, unifies in community, releases revelation, and increases our inheritance while it trains us to rule with His wisdom.

The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on-to have a real prayer life.

There's no Biblical definition of contemplative prayer

Grace does not cancel out our responsibility or accountability for the things God has given us to do.

The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution ... My premise: Many people alive today will see this revolution in their lifetime.

Understanding God's great love for undeserving people such as us, gives us insight into His great majesty. As beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so great love reveals the nature of the One who loves deeply.

When we meet the great men and women of the Bible face-to-face, we may be surprised to discover just how much like us they are. It is faith in a great God that makes a great man or woman of God.

The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God.

He has joy in our friendship and in our partnering together in the work of the kingdom with Him.

God's grace is sufficient when we come up short in our obedience, but it is important to call sin "sin" and declare war on it. Those who love God in truth will set their hearts to live in a spirit of obedience in every area of their lives - including their use of time, money, and words, and in what their eyes look at.

Jesus isn't coming for a church that's gritting her teeth, struggling to stay free from sin, secretly wishing she could indulge in a little immorality but abstaining because of being afraid of getting caught. No, Jesus is coming for a church passionately and utterly devoted to Him-one that is free on the inside.

God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.

If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.

Find your security, success, and peace in God. Then, and only then, can it never be taken from you.

No matter how great the power is that the Holy Spirit releases through a prophet, we are to focus our hearts and attention first on loving, worshiping, and obeying Jesus.

It is not enough to desire to pray; we must resolutely stay with it.

In some seasons, Jesus asks us, Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?

We must know the power of truth and experience the truth about power.

The Second Coming will probably happen within the lifetime of people living today.

We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus.

Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.

Joyful intimacy with God is the great power source of the kingdom of God.

Almost every Spirit filled believer is able to prophesy on an inspirational level.

This prayer for the Holy Spirit to strengthen the inner man of believers is one of the most important prayers recorded in the Scripture, and it is vital that we understand it if we want to grow in prayer.

People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.

We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.

God has a part,and we have a part. God will not do our part and we can't do His part

The revelation of His glory includes seeing One so high (transcendence) who went so low (condescension) to bring us so near (redemption) because we are so dear (Bride). The Most High God went so low because of such great desire to partner with us ... We are awestruck by His power, overwhelmed by His humility, and made confident by His love.

God intends us to be like gods, he intends us to be like the Son of God ... God has conceived in His heart of a plan to make a race of men that would live like gods on the Earth. He has conceived in His heart to have Sons that would live like His Son, the Lord Jesus lived ... That we were to be on earth the extension and manifestation of God's life in heaven.

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.

If the eternal King started in Bethlehem, so will anyone who follows Him.

The Lord wants us to have a threefold confidence. First, we are to be confident that He loves us in our weakness. Second, we are to be confident that He esteems our weak love for Him as genuine.Third, we are to be confident that He still entrusts us with the calling that He originally gave us.

Allegiance to Jesus and loving the truth are primary truths (2Thessalonians 2 v10). The Body of Christ must tolerate all religions in the sense of greatly valuing the dignity of their people and religious liberties. They possess great dignity before God. Yet, we are not willing to let them go to hell by refusing to love them and tell them the truth about Jesus. A false application of tolerance is foundational in the movements that lead to the harlot religion.

Any who love Jesus will love others much more.

We love God with our mind by taking the time to fill our mind with the Word.

I ask that this one thing, your church would gaze on the, the beauty of the Lord, I ask that you would awaken the hardened lost. I ask you to fascinate your church with the revelation of the beauty of Jesus. Come and release lovesickness for Jesus. Come and unlock the fountains of the hearts, now, Lord, by the river of fire, by the Holy Spirit, by the spirit of revelation. Let us see what the Seraphim see. Let us be awestruck by the beauty of the God-man. In the name of Jesus we ask that.

It is not possible to live biblical Christianity without being committed to a lifestyle of praying, fasting, giving, serving, and blessing our enemies. A form of Christianity devoid of any of these five elements is not New Testament Christianity. We are all called to fast regularly.

There is no Bible passage that excludes 21st century people in the Western world from the Sermon on the Mount lifestyle because we are too busy or too important, or for any other reason. When we come face to face with Jesus one day, He will not make an exception for us because we lived in the 21st century. What He called the early Church to do is what He calls all believers to do, and He provides the same grace to us to respond.