Intimacy with God Quotes

“Love for God must precede service for God. Labor for God must be the overflow of love for God. Whenever we reverse the order, all of our ministry, including our work for God, become a dutiful task. The order in the Great Commandment is love for God before labor for God, allegiance to God before an assignment from God, intimacy with God before service for God.”
― Benjamin Sawatsky, Intimacy with God: Drawing Ever Closer to the Almighty

“revealing to us “what is yet to come.”
― Benjamin Sawatsky, Intimacy with God: Drawing Ever Closer to the Almighty

“The work of the Holy Spirit would be to help Jesus’ followers to comprehend and apply the truth and ultimately to “bow the knee” to the truth.”
― Benjamin Sawatsky, Intimacy with God: Drawing Ever Closer to the Almighty

“My sense is that the cultivation of sensitivities to the nudgings and promptings of the Holy Spirit trains our ears to hear His voice in the larger, less frequent happenings.”
― Benjamin Sawatsky, Intimacy with God: Drawing Ever Closer to the Almighty