Inspirational Quotes by Jack Hayford
Jack Hayford
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“The big issue for us was not whether people cried, shook, fell, or experienced some kind of physical manifestation. These are quite neutral in the scheme of revival. We place too much emphasis on them to the positive and negative.”
“Some mistakenly assume that a prayer meeting needs to be spontaneous and unstructured in order to be Spirit-filled and dynamic. Spontaneity is usually birthed in structure. Without structure, there is no direction or vision for where you want to go. One of the problems we have all experienced with prayer meetings is feeling purposeless in our prayer efforts. If there is no system, order, or clear plan for a prayer meeting, it is easy for even the most “spiritual” people to pray for about ten minutes, and afterward feel bored. However, when you start with a plan, you have clear purpose in how to move forward.”
“The problem is that when we refrain from telling people what they need to hear, we spiritually misdiagnose the dying.”
“It is deception for us to believe that in order to bring people to Christ, we need to water down the message and make it palatable. I have seen just the opposite take place. God’s wrath is aimed at sin, but because”
“If we want to experience a powerful visitation of the Holy Spirit, prayer is not an option—it is a necessity.”
“God’s wrath is aimed at sin, but because of Jesus’s redemptive work, there is no reason for any human being to live under the tyranny of sin or the threat of coming wrath. Justification in the sight of the holy, righteous God has been made available to all who receive the work of Christ by faith. This is the Gospel.”
“I remembered reading that Christ had to purify the temple first. After he’d cleared away all the debris that was not supposed to be there, He could make it a house of prayer where people from all backgrounds and circumstances could come to pray. As the people began to pray, God turned His house into a house of power where He could heal the sick and deliver the troubled in heart. That power would then quite naturally draw praise and thanksgiving from the people, making it a house of praise. Upon reflection, these four steps—purity, prayer, power, and praise—are essential if we are going to see God’s glory revealed in the Church today.”
“Unfortunately, as expressed by Watchman Nee, “By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever.” I say it’s time we burn. In fact, the Word commands us to be fervent (which means red-hot) in spirit in Romans 12:11, so that others can catch fire as well.”
“At the day’s end, nothing man creates can compare to or substitute for the Spirit’s presence in our midst.”
“Because we have been saved by the Lord Jesus, we are no longer our own, and we do not have the right to live for ourselves. Rather, we have a lifelong debt to Him, and it is our joyful privilege to fulfill that debt, since living for Him is the only way to experience real life, which is eternal life.”
“There have been more people saved in the past twenty, thirty, or forty years around the world than at any other time in recorded church history.”
“The New Testament Gospel starts with God and tells us what we must do to please Him. The contemporary Gospel starts with us and tells us what God can do to please us. No wonder we are in such spiritual confusion and moral malaise.”
“today, even when we preach on the love of God, if we neglect preaching about sin, the wrath of God, and humankind’s need for a Savior, we are promoting imbalance. When we preach God’s mercy without the reality of sin, one must ask the question: Why must God be merciful? Why do I need mercy from Him at all? If we preach a Savior without giving context for what we need saving from, our grasp of salvation is limited. It all comes together when we present the complete, full Gospel—nothing missing, nothing lacking.”
“It is deception for us to believe that in order to bring people to Christ, we need to water down the message and make it palatable.”
“It’s high time we quit trying to drag the Word of God down to our level of experience and commitment, trying to conform Scripture to our ways rather than conforming our ways to Scripture.”
“Revival is not something that happened in the 1800s during the Great Awakenings, or in the early 1900s with the Azusa Street Revival, or even in the 1990s during the Brownsville Revival or Toronto Blessing. What we define as revival is God’s pattern for normal Christianity.”
“Sadly, we have adopted a theology of cultural relevance. We think the only way we can win the world is by becoming like the world, rather than recognizing the only way we can win the world is by becoming like Jesus.”
“What does God’s reality look like? What is normal according to the word? As I have said for many years, what the world calls fanaticism and most of the church calls extremism, God calls normal. In the words of Leonard Ravenhill, “Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal.”
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