Pages
Categories
- Atheism
- Blogs
- Books
- Charismatic
- Christianity
- Church
- Church History
- Counselling
- Creativity
- Culture
- Emotions
- Experience
- Feelings
- God
- Good and Evil
- Healing
- Hearing God's Voice
- History
- Holy Spirit
- Humanism
- Imagination
- Intimacy with God
- Jesus Christ
- Journalling
- Lectio Divina
- Mathematics
- Mind
- Ministry
- Mysticism
- Mystics
- People
- Perfection
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Prayer
- Presence of God
- Psychology
- Reason
- Reasonable Mystic
- Religion
- Resources
- Sacraments
- Salvation
- Science
- Sin
- Soul
- Spirit
- Spiritual Gifts
- Spiritual Practices
- Teaching
- Webmaster
- Websites
- Will
Author Archives: Mal
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 17
Of Petitions The soul should not be surprised at feeling itself unable to offer up to God such petitions as it had formerly made with freedom and facility; for now the Spirit maketh intercession for it according to the will … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lectio Divina, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Spiritual Practices
Tagged Books, Divine Will, faith, feeling, God, infirmity, intercession, Jeanne Guyon, Madame Guyon, Mysticism, Mystics, petition, Prayer, Romans, self, Soul, Spirit, Spiritual Practices
Leave a comment
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 16
Of Reading and Vocal Prayer If, while reading, you feel yourself recollected, lay aside the book and remain in stillness; at all times read but little, and cease to read when you are thus internally attracted. The soul that is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lectio Divina, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Spiritual Practices
Tagged Books, burden, Holy Spirit, Jeanne Guyon, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, reading, silence, Soul, Spiritual Practices, vocal prayer
Leave a comment
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 14
Of Inward Silence “The Lord is in His Holy Temple, let all the earth keep silence before him” (Hab. ii. 20). Inward silence is absolutely indispensable, because the Word is essential and eternal, and necessarily requires dispositions in the soul … Continue reading
Posted in Experience, Intimacy with God, Lectio Divina, Mysticism, Mystics, Presence of God, Spiritual Practices
Tagged Books, divine, fruit, Habakkuk, hearing, Hosea, inward, inward silence, Isaiah, Jeanne Guyon, Luke, Madame Guyon, Mysticism, Mystics, outward silence, Prayer, Psalms, silence, Soul, Spiritual Practices, temple, unfaithfulness, Voice of God
Leave a comment
Life comes directly from God
As a folower of Jesus I know that I have been reborn when I accepted Jesus as my Saviour. But I have sometimes wondered just how that rebirth comes about. How does God actually create that new life in me? … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Christianity, Holy Spirit, Intimacy with God, Presence of God, Salvation, Sin, Spirit, Teaching
Tagged anointing, body, Books, breathed, Christian, creates, dead spirit, evangelical, Father God, follower of Jesus, Fuschia Pickett, Genesis, Gods love, Holy Spirit mary, infant Jesus, Jesus Christ, legal, life, living soul, miracle, new life, overshadowed.Adam, Paul, rebirth, reborn, resurrection, Romans, Saviour, sleeping, source
Leave a comment
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 13
Of Rest before God The soul advanced thus far hath no need of any other preparation than its quietude: for now the Presence of God, which is the great effect, or rather continuation of Prayer, begins to be infused, and … Continue reading
Posted in Lectio Divina, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Presence of God, Sacraments, Spiritual Practices
Tagged blessedness, Books, Christ, communion, confession, divine, evil, faithful, God, goodness, Jeanne Guyon, Madame Guyon, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Presence of God, rest, Sacraments, Soul, Spiritual Practices, transcendent, wisdom
Leave a comment
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 12
Of the Presence of God The soul that is faithful in the exercise of love and adherence to God above described, is astonished to feel Him gradually taking possession of their whole being: it now enjoys a continual sense of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Experience, Lectio Divina, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Presence of God, Sacraments, Spiritual Practices
Tagged arms of love, be still and know, blessedness, Books, David, faithful, God, imagine, ineffable, interior, intuitive love, Isaiah, Jeanne Guyon, Jesus Christ, light, love, mothers bossom, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Presence of God, prophet, Psalms, Religion, silence, Soul, Spiritual Practices, Spiritual Torrents, stars, sublime, sun, The Concise View, universal light
Leave a comment
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 11
Of Conversion “Be ye truly converted unto that God from whom ye have so deeply revolted” (Isa. xxxi. 6). To be truly converted is to avert wholly from the creature, and turn wholly unto God. For the attainment of salvation … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lectio Divina, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Presence of God, Salvation, Spiritual Practices
Tagged attraction, Books, conversion, converted, divine, Divine Grace, Divine Love, God, grace, gravitation, inward, Isaiah, Jeanne Guyon, life, Madame Guyon, magnetism, Mysticism, Mystics, outwrd, Prayer, Presence of God, purify, righteousness, Salvation, Sin, Soul, Spiritual Practices
Leave a comment
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 10
Of Mortification I will even affirm, that, in any other way, it is next to an impossibility ever to acquire a perfect mortification of the senses and passions. The reason is obvious; the soul gives vigour and energy to the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lectio Divina, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Presence of God, Salvation, Spiritual Practices
Tagged abandonment, body, Books, conversion, Divine presence, faithful, God, grace, guide, Imagination, inward recollection, Jeanne Guyon, Madame Guyon, mortification, Mysticism, Mystics, passions, power, Prayer, Presence of God, Present God, senses, Soul, Spirit, Spiritual Practices, steadfast, virtue
Leave a comment
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 9
Of Virtue It is thus we acquire virtue, with facility and certainty; for, as God is the fountain and principle of all virtue, we possess all in the possession of Himself; and in proportion as we approach towards this possession, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Church, Lectio Divina, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Spiritual Practices
Tagged affections, Augustine, Books, certainty, Church, David, Divine Love, jealous, Jeanne Guyon, Kings daughter, Madame Guyon, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Psalms, reformed, self-love, Spiritual Practices, virtue
Leave a comment
