The Pleasures Of Loving God: A call to accept God's all-encompassing love for you

by Mike Bickle

Here’s an ultimate portrait of a loving Father, one to whom we can come for a fresh supply of truth and beauty, day by day. In the process, we’ll awaken a fervent devotion to our heavenly Lord. As we employ the Great Commission in our daily lives, we also discover the joy and pleasure of being a vehicle through whom Christ’s own prayers are lived out in the world. Prepare to The Pleasures of Loving God is a call to accept God’s all-encompassing love for you, something that is already yours, not anything that you have to earn or win.

Genres: Spirituality

232 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2000

About the author

Mike Bickle is the director of the International House of Prayer Missions Base of Kansas City, an evangelical missions organization based on 24/7 prayer with worship that is engaged in many evangelistic and inner city outreaches along with multiple justice initiatives, planting houses of prayer, and training missionaries.

The International House of Prayer has continued in non-stop prayer led by worship teams since September 19,1999, and is committed to combining 24/7 prayers for justice with 24/7 works of justice. Around 1,500 people (staff members, students, interns) serve full-time on the missions base, investing fifty hours per week in the prayer room, classroom, and ministry outreaches. Mike is also the founder of the International House of Prayer University which includes a full-time Bible school, music school, and media school.

Reviews

[Frank Curtiss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exceptional book, getting to the very heart of what is important in our faith, finding pleasure in God and feeling his pleasure in us.

[Shannon Bradbury]

Do not read this book! Mike Bickle was exposed in 2024 for sexually abusing 17 women, manipulation and using the prophetic to take advantage of people especially women. He is not a godly leader!!!

[Amy Faith · Rating 5 out of 5]

"As we are drawn to a greater revelation of God's beauty, we become LoveSick for Him. As we cry out to God, expressing that we cannot live without more of Him, the treasures that the Holy Spirit imparts to us will take root and grow in our hearts as we value and pursue them with a Holy vengeance (that is, radical love)" - my favourite quote in this book!
This book kindles the heart with a deeper understanding of God as a lover, relationship and intimacy with the creator and stirs a Holy passion for Jesus, not only as an individual but also as part of something much bigger, the body and bride of Chrst!

[Rebecca Corcoran]

More info on the IHOP ministry that I have become involved in and a great eyeopener to Gods love for us

[Nick Franks · Rating 5 out of 5]

This, with Desiring God, is the most formative book I have ever read

[Sarabeara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intimacy, Longing, Romance, Adoration with our Bridegroom, thats what this book is all about!