KingsGate Community Church
with Dave Smith
Spiritual Wellbeing
– with Dave Smith
1 Thessalonians 5:23 NIVUK
“You [Lord] have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you.”
– Saint Augustine
Hunger, Honesty and Hearing
1. An increased HUNGER for God
“God doesn’t hide things from us, but for us.”
– Bill Johnson
2. An increased HONESTY before God
Psalms 139:15 MSG
1 Kings 19:9, 13 NIVUK
“Elijah. Talk to me! Throw aside your nice pleasant speech, and just tell me what’s going on in that locked mind of yours.”
– Faith for all Seasons
1 Kings 19:10, 14 NIVUK
3. An increased HEARING from God
John 10:27 ESV
1 Kings 19:11-12 NIVUK
“...a still small voice”
– 1 Kings 19:12, NKJV
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
– Pensees, Blaise Pascal
“In silence we not only withdraw from the demands of life and the company of others but also allow the noise of our own thoughts, strivings and compulsions to settle down so we can hear a truer and more reliable Voice…In silence we create space for God's activity rather than filling every minute with our own"
– Invitation to Silence and Solitude, Ruth Hailey Barton
"I'm going away to learn the Word of God which I am admittedly very unfamiliar with… I've been brought up by my family to know Christ, but I haven't taken it upon myself to really just read my bible."
– Chance the Rapper