40 Days Through the Bible Quotes

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― Lysa TerKeurst, 40 Days Through the Bible: The Answers to Your Deepest Longings

“Physically our bodies long for food and water. It doesn’t take long for us to be desperate for both. And spiritually we have the same longings. Only for many of us, we live chronically dehydrated, looking to sources for satisfaction that were never meant to satisfy.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, 40 Days Through the Bible: The Answers to Your Deepest Longings

“It’s not that all longings are bad. But as we will see in our study, if we become so convinced that the only way for us to feel better is to get what we long for—our longings can become misdirected. We can end up seeking things outside of God’s best for us that have the false promise of fulfillment and satisfaction, but only bring more confusion, deeper bondage, and entrapment.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, 40 Days Through the Bible: The Answers to Your Deepest Longings

“Longings are complicated feelings. They are desires with an intensity and drive behind them. They consume our thoughts, make us frustrated with others, and even make us question God.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, 40 Days Through the Bible: The Answers to Your Deepest Longings

“Our longings produce an ache within us, and the enemy loves to use this to tempt us to turn away from God and ultimately turn inward to satisfy our longings. Turning inward tempts us to look to things like food, relationships, money, and success for our satisfaction. But, these things, void of God, will leave us restless. James wrote, “But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death” (James 1:14–15 ESV).”
― Lysa TerKeurst, 40 Days Through the Bible: The Answers to Your Deepest Longings

“mean more than simply beautiful or well-made. Read Ecclesiastes 7:29. Identify another word that speaks of God’s creation and relates to the word “good.” What does this teach about how God made mankind?”
― Lysa TerKeurst, 40 Days Through the Bible: The Answers to Your Deepest Longings

“Our hearts are restless, until they rest in You.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, 40 Days Through the Bible: The Answers to Your Deepest Longings