The Fear of the Lord Quotes

“A person with a religious spirit is one who uses My Word to execute his own will!”
― John Bevere, The Fear Of The Lord: Discover the Key to Intimately Knowing God

“Holy fear is the key to God's sure foundation, unlocking the treasuries of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. Along with the love of God, it composes the very foundation of life! We will soon learn that we cannot truly love God until we fear Him, nor can we properly fear Him until we love Him.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“Our proper order for bearing His presence is found in the recesses of the heart. It is within the heart we must prepare, for God is about to reveal His glory on earth like it has never been seen before.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“We must return to the teachable nature of our first love.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“music plays a significant, key role in
cultivating an atmosphere for the presence of the Lord. It has the ability to open and prepare a person's heart.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“The king was to read the Word of God every day. Why? God's wisdom and honor were to be established in his heart so that he would esteem God's ways above man's ideas.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“to fear God we must both know and obey His ways above all else.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“Whenever our pursuit is for "blessings" instead of for the Lord, He will remove or withhold so that we will cry out for Him again.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“The accurate measurement of our true spiritual condition lies in our actual obedience to His will.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“When the church is infected and diseased with a lack of the fear of the Lord, it will be unable to help society.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“What good is it to acknowledge Jesus Christ when there is no change of heart and therefore no change in action?”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“God's answer for our shortcomings is the gift of salvation through His gift of grace, a gift that cannot be earned (Rom. 4:4). Many in the church understand this. Yet we have failed to emphasize the power of grace not only to redeem us but also to grant us its ability to live our lives in a totally different manner.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“Grace enables and empowers us to live a life of holiness and obedience to the authority of God.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“The greater God's revealed glory, the greater and swifter the judgment of irreverence!”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“In times past when the nation strayed, the leaders would guide the people back to God, but these leaders pushed the people away with their persistent abuse of position and perversion of power.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“It is easy to develop quickly an attitude of irreverence when we come to the Lord for what He can do for us or give to us. It is a relationship based on blessings and events. When things don't go our way-and inevitably this will happen-we are disappointed, and, like spoiled children, our respect is gone. When irreverence is judged, everyone takes stock of their lives and wrong motives are purged by the light of judgment. This is an atmosphere for true hearts of repentance filled with the fear of God.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“I believe that no one dared to join themselves to Jesus until they had counted the cost. There was no more "joining" for self-seeking reasons. They came to the Lord because of who He was, not because of what He could do.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“True love is founded in the truth of who God really is.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“Our love for God is limited by a lack of holy fear. Our hearts are to bear the light and warmth of both flames.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“But sacrifices are useless when unaccompanied by hearts that love and fear God.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“If you desire the praise of man, you will fear man. If you fear man, you will serve him-for you will serve what you fear.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“A true believer, a disciple, lays down his life completely for the Master. Disciples are steadfast to the end. Converts and onlookers may desire the benefits and blessings, but they lack the endurance to last to the end. Eventually they will fade away.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“Yes, salvation is a gift that cannot be bought or earned. However, you cannot retain it if you do not give your entire life in exchange for it! Even a gift must be protected from being lost or stolen.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“Jesus makes it clear that to follow Him, we must first count the cost. There is a price to following Jesus, and He makes the amount certain. The price is nothing short of our lives!”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“Jesus' sacrifice eliminated the sin nature separating man from God's presence since the fall of Adam.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“Indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the
LORD, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying: "For He is good, for His mercy endures forever," that the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
-2 CHRONICLES 5:13-14”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“In His wisdom, He purposely withholds the revelation of His glory to see if we will serve Him with love and reverence, or turn our attention to that which receives glory on the earth yet pales in comparison to Him.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“We see then that the glory of the Lord is everything that makes God, God. All His characteristics, authority, power, wisdom-literally the immeasurable weight and magnitude of God-are contained within God's glory.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“I believe this angel cries out, "What is this that You are so interested in and fondly affectionate toward? What is that little thing that is constantly on Your mind-the total focus of Your plans?”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord

“This awesome, mighty God, who has just created the universe and put the stars in place with His fingers, now comes to a little speck of a planet called Earth and makes what appears to be a tiny insignificant speck of dust into the body of a man.”
― John Bevere, Fear Of The Lord