“I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real.”
—Misty Edwards
“I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real.”
—Misty EdwardsYou Won't Relent
Misty EdwardsYou Won’t Relent | Misty Edwards
This song honestly never gets old. I’ve had it on repeat for weeks now.
I Knew What I Was Getting Into
Misty EdwardsI Knew What I Was Getting Into by Misty Edwards
I knew what I was getting into and I still want you.
I knew what I was getting into and I still like you.
I knew what I was getting into and I still chose you
“Jesus both commanded and prophesied that we would love Him with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. To love Him in this way is to be obsessed with Him. Obsession, in the positive sense of being fixated and wholeheartedly devoted to Jesus and His truth. It is not a passive love but abandoned love, holding nothing back. This takes revelation of who He is. To grow in love for Him we must grow in understanding of Him and this takes a ravenous hunger for the Scriptures and a perpetual turning to the Spirit to be taught. To be obsessed with Jesus means we are entirely His and caught up in His story and His purpose above all else.”
—Misty EdwardsBring Me Forth in Love
Misty EdwardsI won’t accuse You of being too difficult; I won’t accuse You of asking too much of me. I won’t accuse You for I know, I know that only You know what moves my heart.
“Jesus both commanded and prophesied that we would love Him with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. To love Him in this way is to be obsessed with Him. Obsession, in the positive sense of being fixated and wholeheartedly devoted to Jesus and His truth. It is not a passive love but abandoned love, holding nothing back. This takes revelation of who He is. To grow in love for Him we must grow in understanding of Him and this takes a ravenous hunger for the Scriptures and a perpetual turning to the Spirit to be taught. To be obsessed with Jesus means we are entirely His and caught up in His story and His purpose above all else.”
—Misty EdwardsArms Wide Open - Misty Edwards
“If you’re passionately in love with Jesus, then you have enough to love the one who rapes you, beats you, kidnaps you, throws you in jail, sticks knives in your throat…You have enough, because you know why you are doing it.”
— Heidi Baker
