Reckless Devotion Quotes

“Jesus doesn't rob you of being YOU. You don't somehow become less than yourself because Jesus' presence is larger in you. It's just the opposite; the more you surrender to Him, the more you become who the Father always intended you to be.”
― Rolland Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“Rather than being purpose-driven, I prefer to be presence-centered. All our efforts in God’s Kingdom must originate from the place of rest, the place of His presence.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“Here’s some news for you: Without Him, you’ll never be good enough. I’ll never be good enough. We are nothing without our God. He takes our little lives, laid down at His feet in the dirt, and He wrecks us with His love. When we see Him in all His beauty and let Him reshape us and fill us with His Holy Spirit, we no longer look at our failures and faults, because our eyes are drawn to see only Him. Unless He fills me, everything is impossible. When He fills me, nothing is impossible.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“the reason I have come to serve here, the reason I am alive, is for this purpose and this purpose alone: to learn how to love as Jesus loved.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“God is not interested in using the mighty, but the willing. He is not into using amazing people, just ones who are prepared to lay their lives down before Him. God is not looking for extraordinary, exceptionally gifted people, just laid-down lovers of Jesus who will carry His glory with transparency and not take it for themselves.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“We have to let go of our preconceived ideas, our carefully worked-out plans, our way of doing things so God can live in us. We need new life, His life. If we are going to make room to carry His glory, we have to die first. We have to take our place at the cross and say, as Jesus said, “Not my will but yours, God. Your will. I will drink the cup You have called me to drink, whatever the cost.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“It is not how good we are at being Christians but how good we are at dwelling and resting in God.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“Father reminds us that He saves one soul at a time. He is always interested in the one. We long to see God’s power and glory, the miraculous and supernatural breaking into the temporal. But let’s not forget the one. Don’t forget the one next to you—the person to whom you can be Jesus’ hands of compassion. In God’s economy, the person who just reaches out to one and sees that one find grace is just as important as the evangelist who leads thousands to Christ.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“Now we are compelled to love those we serve through a love for God that never runs dry. Why? It is His Holy Spirit who fills our jars of clay, and all we do comes from Him.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“Be a presence carrier rather than a burden bearer.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“On our journey, we are learning to imitate Jesus. We are learning to love as He loved. And as we keep loving, He will keep putting in front of us those who desperately need His love. Then we will find the following to be true of us: “The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 1:8 NLT).”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“God loves us so much He wants to destroy our preconceptions about Him so His Holy Spirit can move freely among us. God likes to shatter the boxes we create in order to contain Him and His work among us. The fact is, God does not like being put in a box. God is sovereign and holy. He likes to be God. He wants us to participate in His divine nature, follow in His footsteps. But He makes all the decisions. We just follow. God likes to be in control. He wants to take over because that is just God doing His thing. Our job is to be yielded lovers, willing to cooperate with Him.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“In South Africa, I learned an important principle for all who want to move in a healing anointing and all who want to experience God’s healing in their own lives—thankfulness and rejoicing. Often, when we are prayed for, we feel a little better, but maybe we are aware we are not fully healed. We tend to look for instantaneous, complete healing instead of rejoicing in the fact that God has touched us. In that hospital, I learned to give thanks for every little bit of healing God gave as He gave it. I became grateful for every little step I could take until I was able to run and jump. With every step I took, I rejoiced in what Jesus was doing. I didn’t moan and say, “But I can only take a few little steps.” Rejoicing is so important.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“Sometimes we cannot see and don’t want to see because we are blinded. We need eye salve to put on our eyes. We cry out for revival, and yet God says, “I want to open your eyes so you can see what is before you. Revival has a face and a name. It lies bleeding on the roadside.” If we want to see revival, we need to begin with the one in front of us.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“The power of God, the presence of God, the multiplication of the Gospel is as simple as this: a physical demonstration of the love of God. We have overcomplicated our message, thinking we were being wise. We have analyzed the Gospel to death until it doesn’t work anymore. We have made it so intensely difficult to understand that we have theologized, theorized and strategized ourselves into a corner. We have not understood that the Gospel is as simple as this: love, love, love, love, love.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“The very next Monday, I found myself lying facedown on a grass mat with the mother of one of the little girls who had died. I lay down with this woman and wept with her, holding her in my arms. It was then God said to me, “Heidi, it’s about love. It’s not always about victory.” Our whole life cannot be about victory and glory, but it must be about love. Love is patient and kind and long-suffering. God’s love is the kind of love that is extravagant, bottomless, ceaseless and endless. That’s what you need when you are on the floor holding a grieving mother.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“We must fight, not to make a temple but to become His temple. To become a resting place for His beautiful, holy habitation. To be fully possessed by the glory of the Lord. He is calling us not to run harder but to lie down. What is your destiny? Is it to go to a university, be in a hospital, live on a garbage dump or go to the nations? Wherever you end up and whatever you do, your destiny is this: to be fully possessed by God’s presence. To carry His glory. To be recklessly devoted. Then, if you are at a university, a hospital or a garbage dump, you are His resting place, and all that can exist there is life and beauty. Remember, you are a presence carrier. Immerse yourself in Jesus’ presence and allow Him to spill into every situation in your life. You are His dwelling place. His temple.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“Don’t forget to rest in the kindnesses He pours out on you—whether you feel deserving or not. You are His child. He loves you.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“In all things, we can rejoice. In every situation, He will provide. He will not leave us burned out or discouraged, tired or overcome. His grace is sufficient, and we can do all things—working and resting—through Him, through His strength. Trust that your heavenly Father knows what He is doing when He guides you and directs your life. Be thankful for every provision. Don’t forget to rest in the kindnesses He pours out on you—whether you feel deserving or not. You are His child. He loves you.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“It takes courage to let go—to let go of your way, to let go of being the answer. We are not the answer, my friend; God is. If we live like this, it will mean fruitful labor. Without fruit, what would be the point of living anyway? But the seed has to be buried deep in the ground before the fruit has a chance to take hold. Before the harvest is ready, the fields look bare. All the life is hidden, ready to be revealed, ready to be released—in His time.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“Out of seeming chaos, God manages to bring order. Sometimes it’s hard to see the plan when we are running around, responding to circumstances. But He knows. He has the bigger picture. He is in control. And as we offer up the little we have, He multiplies it into something amazing.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“When God fills us with His Holy Spirit, we are filled with love. He desires to pour Himself out through our lives, our jars of clay, into His world, which aches for Him. His all-surpassing power is given to us, not so we can hoard it for ourselves, storing it in a darkened room somewhere, from which it trickles out in small quantities. It is given to us to be splashed out in the light, for the joy of all people everywhere. We can’t love God’s way without being filled with Him. If we try it on our own, we end up exhausted and burned out. I’ve done it; it doesn’t work. Only when we let His love pour into us and let it spill out from deep within us will His Kingdom come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“Holiness means never doing or saying anything, even in our most private and intimate times with other people—spouse, parents, siblings, best friends—that could bring reproach to the Gospel. It means never doing anything that could potentially scare away the gentle dove of the Holy Spirit, causing Him to draw back from us. Holiness is when every act we do holds up to investigation by anyone. Holiness means every thought and conversation we have, every email or text we send, every interaction with others and everything we do when we’re alone would stand up to public scrutiny if it were broadcast to everyone in the world. Imagine the freedom of having such a pure conscience that you didn’t mind any aspect of your life being revealed to or discovered by others. Imagine being constantly lighthearted because you had absolutely nothing to hide.”
― Heidi Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love

“Jesus is the center of our faith. I keep returning to the center because I want to be centered. Here, clinging closer to Jesus, we are safe, protected,shielded from the storms of life. The storms will come; we will still be challenged, stretched, wrung out. But we will be anchored in Him. Secure, unshaken.”
― Rolland Baker, Reckless Devotion: 365 Days into the Heart of Radical Love