Top 100 Blackaby Quotes
#1. Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'
Henry Blackaby
#2. Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.
Henry Blackaby
#3. If you want to determine whether God loves you, don't look at your current situation; look to the cross.
Henry T. Blackaby
#4. A sure indication of a successful leader is the collective and consistent testimony of subordinates who are grateful for what they learned and how they grew while they worked under that leader.
Richard Blackaby
#5. 8"Forp My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9"Forq as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Richard Blackaby
#6. Many people have grown up attending church and hearing about God all their lives, but they do not have a personal, dynamic, growing relationship with God.
Henry T. Blackaby
#7. You cannot stay where you are and go with God. You cannot continue doing things your way and accomplish God's purpose in His ways. Your thinking cannot come close to God's thoughts. For you to do the will of God, you must adjust your life to Him, His purposes, and His ways
Henry Blackaby
#8. We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.
Henry T. Blackaby
#9. When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.
Richard Blackaby
#10. How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God.
Henry Blackaby
#12. Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.
Henry Blackaby
#13. We should thank God for being with us, not ask Him to be with us (this is always given!).
Henry Blackaby
#14. Some spiritual leaders try to be more committed. What they need is to be more submitted.
Henry T. Blackaby
#15. When we hear His call and respond accordingly, there will be no limit to what God can and will do through His people. But if we do not even recognize when He is speaking, we are in trouble at the very heart of our relationship to Him.
Henry Blackaby
#18. When God has access to our heart, mind, and soul through years of fellowship and worship, He allows us to see more of His activity and to be more involved in His miraculous work.
Richard Blackaby
#19. Let's be honest. Most of us don't want to be observers of life; we want to experience it. Well, that's exactly what God wants for us. He doesn't just want us to read about Him and talk about Him; He designed us to experience Him.
Thomas Blackaby
#20. What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.
Henry Blackaby
#21. while theology should inform a Christian's relationship with God, it should never take its place.
Henry T. Blackaby
#22. The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.
Henry Blackaby
#23. If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.
Richard Blackaby
#24. Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life. The outcome does not depend upon a person being unusually gifted, educated, or wealthy. The key is the indwelling presence of God doing unusual things
Henry T. Blackaby
#25. If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!
Henry Blackaby
#26. Anything of spiritual significance that happens in your life will be a result of God's activity in you. He is infinitely more concerned with your life and your relationship with Him than you or I could possibly be.
Henry T. Blackaby
#27. Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God's people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.
Henry Blackaby
#28. REALITY 4: GOD SPEAKS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH THE BIBLE, PRAYER, CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE CHURCH TO REVEAL HIMSELF, HIS PURPOSES, AND HIS WAYS.
Henry T. Blackaby
#29. Americans believe that the bottom line isn't everything, it's the only thing, and America is strangling on that lack of vision."13 Bennis also noted, "It isn't either a bull or a bear market anymore, it's a pig market."14
Richard Blackaby
#30. There is no way to satisfy the desires of all the people who clamor for their time, so leaders must subjugate their schedule to God's will and invest themselves in those activities and projects most critical. Unlike
Richard Blackaby
#31. 3But You, O LORD, dknow me; You have seen me, And You have etested my heart toward You.
Richard Blackaby
#32. It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God's.
Henry Blackaby
#33. This father always relates to his children in perfect love. This father is never absent. He is never disinterested. He is never preoccupied. He is never unable to respond to a need.
Henry T. Blackaby
#34. Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.
Henry Blackaby
#35. Regardless of how badly you handled yesterday, today provides a fresh opportunity to do things right!
Richard Blackaby
#36. When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you.
Henry Blackaby
#37. Not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his fmight, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; 24But glet him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, 10judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
Richard Blackaby
#38. When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.
Henry Blackaby
#39. A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.
Henry Blackaby
#40. God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.
Henry Blackaby
#41. Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
Henry Blackaby
#42. Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.
Henry Blackaby
#43. Some people can be so disoriented to God that when he begins to work around them, they actually become annoyed at the interruption!
Henry T. Blackaby
#44. If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).
Henry Blackaby
#45. But if you find yourself experiencing a desire to seek God, we have great news for you: God is already at work in you.
Henry T. Blackaby
#46. Watch to see where God is working and join Him in His work.
Henry Blackaby
#47. The Christian never works toward victory, he always works FROM victory.
Henry Blackaby
#48. If things are getting darker, the problem is with us.
Henry Blackaby
#49. The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called.
Henry T. Blackaby
#50. Teach yourself to thankfully receive all that God gives you as evidence of His love and faithfulness, and then you'll find it easier to trust Him next time.
Henry Blackaby
#51. Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?
Henry Blackaby
#52. Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.
Richard Blackaby
#53. Tim Irwin cites the maxim: If the leader didn't come to work today, everything would probably still get done; but if the people didn't come to work today, nothing would get done.
Richard Blackaby
#54. Leaders who insulate themselves from others and choose to bear their burdens single-handedly are destined for loneliness and burnout. Leaders, like everyone else, need friends and perhaps in light of the load they carry, even more so.
Richard Blackaby
#55. To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.
Henry Blackaby
#56. When you want to know how God wants you to reach your city, start a new church, or be involved in His work, ask Him. Then when He tells you, don't be surprised if you can't find any church that is doing it the same way.
Henry T. Blackaby
#57. Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.
Henry Blackaby
#58. We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.
Henry Blackaby
#59. Don't put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for.
Henry Blackaby
#60. Every day, you are to offer your life to God for His service. You do not serve Him in your spare time or with your leftover resources. The way you live your life for God is your offering to Him.
Richard Blackaby
#61. If we walk with Him closely today, we'll be in the center of His will tomorrow
Henry Blackaby
#62. Alert expectancy. What an exciting way to look at things! Our faith in Christ gives us the opportunity to live in a state of alert expectancy; patiently waiting for what God will do next. People who choose this path will one day look back in amazement at what God did.
Richard Blackaby
#63. If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.
Henry Blackaby
#64. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.
Henry Blackaby
#65. All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the "great fruit of revival." In times of revival, thousands may be found on their knees for hours, lifting up their heartfelt cries, with thanksgiving, to heaven.
Henry Blackaby
#66. Christianity is an intimate, growing relationship with the person of Jesus Christ. It is not a set of doctrines to believe, habits to practice, or sins to avoid. Every activity God commands is intended to enhance His love relationship with His people.
Henry T. Blackaby
#67. Our problem as leaders is we do everything we know to do. That's not enough. We need to do everything God wants us to do.
Richard Blackaby
#69. Leaders ought never to allow the least motivated members of an organization to set the pace for the others. Rather,
Henry T. Blackaby
#70. Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.
Henry T. Blackaby
#71. We've got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we're going to lead like Jesus.
Henry Blackaby
#72. God's Peace (Jer. 16:5) God's peace is unmistakable. Regardless of the circumstances, there is an abiding confidence that all is well. When God chooses to remove His peace, anxiety and fear prevail and nothing can calm the spirit.
Richard Blackaby
#73. Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.
Richard Blackaby
#74. The fishermen could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus Christ.
Henry T. Blackaby
#75. People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.
Henry Blackaby
#76. We were not saved from our sin simply so that we would qualify for heaven. God delivered us so we would have a relationship with Him through which He could carry out His mission to redeem a lost world.
Henry Blackaby
#77. Does Christianity merely mean we must forfeit our Sunday mornings to church attendance, or does being a Christian noticeably improve our lives?
Richard Blackaby
#78. God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.
Henry Blackaby
#79. If you are presently facing significant challenges in your life, trust in the Lord! Be an aggressive responder who lives with alert expectancy!
Richard Blackaby
#80. The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world.
Henry Blackaby
#81. Is the man who trusts in man And makes hflesh his 2strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD. 6For he shall be ilike a shrub in the desert, And jshall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, kIn a salt land which is not inhabited.
Richard Blackaby
#83. Even though Moses was an exile in the desert, he was right on God's schedule, in the fullness of God's timing, in the middle of God's will for that moment.
Henry T. Blackaby
#84. You may not realize it, but your life has the potential to bless everyone you encounter.
Richard Blackaby
#85. Spiritual leadership is moving people on to God's agenda.
Henry Blackaby
#86. Moses had to re-check Gods' directions constantly. He obeyed God, spoke to Pharaoh, and everything went wrong, but Moses didn't quit. He went back to the Lord to clarify what was happening.
Henry T. Blackaby
#87. God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.
Henry T. Blackaby
#88. Scripture is not a concept; scripture is a person (John 1:1,14). When you stand before the Word of God, you are not merely encountering a concept; you are standing face-to-face with God.
Henry Blackaby
#89. It is impossible to worship God and remain unchanged
Henry Blackaby
#90. If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.
Henry Blackaby
#91. The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.
Henry T. Blackaby
#92. During true revival, thousands of lost people are suddenly swept into the Kingdom of God. Scenes of the lost coming to the Savior in great, and unprecedented numbers, are common.
Henry Blackaby
#93. I recognize that there are times in God's divine will and infinite wisdom that He chooses not to heal or to protect from harm. It was out of my love relationship with God that I was able to trust Him to walk with me through the situation, regardless of how it turned out.
Henry T. Blackaby
#94. 6Now godliness with econtentment is great gain. 7For we brought nothing into this world, 4and it is fcertain we can carry nothing out. 8And having food and clothing, with these we shall be gcontent.
Richard Blackaby
#95. The inability to accept criticism is the short, well-traveled path to failure and disappointment.
Daniel Blackaby
#96. If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.
Henry Blackaby
#97. Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.
Henry Blackaby
#98. God always has a fresh and deeper truth He wants us to learn about Him.
Henry T. Blackaby
#99. We look to the Bible but not to get ideas from what people did for God. We look to see what God did in peoples' lives.
Henry T. Blackaby
#100. Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?
Henry Blackaby
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