Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People

By Jim Cymbala

I finished reading this book June 2, 2016. It took just over a week to read. Once I got a couple chapters in, I found it difficult to put down. I can't summarize this book much better than the subtitle does, but in short this book is about the power of prayer and What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People. Time after time throughout the book, Jim shares stories about how the power of prayer not only changed their church, but changed the hearts of the people. It challenges us to ignore the status quo and really focus our time and efforts on being in communion with God, and not only being in the Word, but living it out in our daily lives. If you're serious about your faith and your relationship with God, this is a book you'll want to read.

"God is attracted to weakness. He can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"If we call upon the Lord, he has promised in his Word to answer, to bring the unsaved to himself, to pour out his Spirit among us. If we don't call upon the Lord, he has promised nothing — nothing at all. It's as simple as that."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"People weren't hungry for fancy sermons or organizational polish. They just wanted love. They wanted to know that God could pick them up and give them a second chance."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"The more we pray, the more we sense our need to pray. And the more we sense a need to pray, the more we want to pray."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of prayer. Only when we are full of the Spirit do we feel the need for God everywhere we turn."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"The apolstles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"No one is beyond his grace. No situation, anywhere on earth, is too hard for God."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"The couple that prays together stays together."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"God has chosen prayer as his channel of blessing. He has spread a table for us with every kind of wisdom, grace, and strength because he knows exactly what we need."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"David's weaponry was ridiculous: a sling and five stones. It didn't matter. God still uses foolish tools in the hands of weak people to build his kingdom. Backed by prayer and his power, we can accomplish the unthinkable."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"To go into the power of the gospel, or of prayer, or the Holy Spirit, or divine love is to plunge ever deeper and deeper into God's well."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"Graciously but firmly, we have to speak the truth in love."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"He is not looking for smart people, because he's the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it — yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and soley to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him."
― William Law
"God the Holy Spirit does unusual things, and he does not always notify us in advance."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"God will manifest himself in direct proportion to our passion for him."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"Whatever God approves of comes first. Whatever grieves him has to go."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"Anything and everything is possible with God if we approach him with a broken spirit. We must humble ourselves, get rid of the debris in our lives, and keep leaning on him instead of our own understanding."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"When it comes to spiritual matters, you and I will never know our potential under God until we step out and take risks on the front line of battle."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"No personal or church situation is too hopeless for the all-sufficient power of the Holy Spirit."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"We must always remember that prayer is a gift from the Holy Spirit, and we can't work it up. So give God time to work in people's hearts. After they have experienced the joy and power of his presence, God will be able to do even greater things."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
"... he has never changed. The only changing that can occur is within us."
― Jim Cymbala - Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People

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