16 Quotes by Jon Bloom

Emotions aren't imperatives; they're not your boss. They're indicatives; they're reports. Thats why Paul wrote, " Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions; Roms 6:12

Sometimes, in your battle with unbelief, your greatest ally will wrestle you—he might even make you limp—until you’re desperate enough to say, 'I will not let you go unless you bless me.' It is a great mercy to be brought to the point where you’re desperate enough to insist on what you need the most.

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.

We are not to lean on conclusions we deduce primarily from our perceptions. In this sense, our own understanding simply will not bear the full weight of reality. It was never intended to.

Prosperity obscures rather than reveals how much fallen humans love God. "Blessings" easily turn into curses as sinners subtly ( or not so subtly) come to love and trust the blessings more than the bless-er.

It is not as important to God that we understand his purposes in a particular providence as it is that we trust in his character.

Learning to rest in the promises of God occurs in the crucible of wrestling with unbelief – seasons, sometimes long seasons, when everything hangs on believing that God “gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things.

Don’t follow your heart. God did not design our hearts to be followed, but to be led.

We are never more vulnerable to sin than when we are successful, admired by others, and prosperous, as King David tragically discovered.