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When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.
You can't make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.
When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime.
The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!
My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.
When your perspective is preloaded with the Word of God, lies lose their power over your life.
The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.
The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.
People who walk in audacious faith don't stop and pray. Audacious faith teaches us to push and pray.
Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.
Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.
Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.
Did you know it's possible to have the right passion, but have the wrong expression of the right passion?
If the size of your vision for your life isn't intimidating to you, there's a good chance it's insulting to God.
Most of the time, it's not until we embrace our limitations that God can start to use us beyond our limitations.
It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.
Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas...it might look real good but it will get you no where.
God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.
Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.
Every heart has an atmosphere. What is the atmosphere of your heart? Nothing good develops in an atmosphere of anxiety
God guarantees that His Word will not return void. He doesn't guarantee that the return will be immediate. Keep sowing!
What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.
Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.
Most believers aren't in imminent danger of ruining their lives. They're facing a danger that's far greater: wasting them.
If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.
The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'
I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.
Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.
His Spirit speaks with promptings that are not audible—often they are much louder than that—always in perfect harmony with the Scriptures and always resounding with perfect wisdom.
Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.
Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.
And even when you can’t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.
Jesus will always move away from religious drama and toward the needs of people who are hurting. Jesus will always go out of his way to find and minister to people who others will go out of their way to avoid. I love him for that.
Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you're not really praying. You're just pontificating. You do the natural. Trust God for the super.
Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He'll make your box bigger.
Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from calling your name and setting you apart. He placed you on the earth at a certain time for a pre-decided purpose.
One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?
Living your problems and loving them like locked rooms is much different from denying them or capitulating to them. It is believing that God is with you in the imperfect, even disappointing circumstances of your life. It is saying to Him with faith in your heart.
The goal of faith isn't to take away your fears but to leverage those fears to create bolder belief. Faith leads you past your fears and reassures you of God's presence. And after a while, you begin to trust that God is going to lift you above the waves this time just like he did last time.
You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.
The next time you lose your momentum in daily life as you're chasing after God's best for you, don't give up and conclude that it's over. The greater life hasn't ended for you. It's only out of sight under the waters of the ordinary. And God can resurface it, supernaturally, as many times as it takes. As many times as you're willing.
But Jesus wanted the crowd to know, look, 'John's (the baptist) the one who got this whole thing started.' In verse ten He says, 'This is the one about whom it is written, 'I'll send my messenger ahead of you who will prepare Your way before You.' Jesus says, 'If it wasn't for John, I wouldn't even be here performing these miracles.'
The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you’re currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace.
It shouldn't freak you out to realize that God's eyes are on you. Because He doesn't see you through eyes of disapproval or disappointment. His presence is not a sign of condemnation. It's actually an invitation. God is present with you, through His Holy Spirit, because He intends to uproot you from the tyranny of the familiar, shatter the monotonous life you've had. And take you on an adventure.
We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of Bible studies because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't teach doctrine because it gets in the way of evangelism. If you want to be fed God's word or have the Bible explained to you then you are a fat lazy Christian and you need to shut up and get to work or you need to leave this church because we ONLY do evangelism.