Leaders who lack passion cost everyone who follows.
Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.
The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.
Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.
We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.
Any revelation from God’s Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford ‘form without power,’ for it creates Christians without purpose.
I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!
It’s a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.
If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you’re developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?
Just because you are going to Heaven doesn’t mean you have Heaven established in you. Success is Heaven on earth.
Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn’t want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.
Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.
America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.
Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.
In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.
Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.
My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.
A heart of faith is anchored in the unseen.
We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.