Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you.” But there are others, such as, “Criticize by creating,” “Thou shalt offend Pharisees,” and “Catch people doing something right.
Following Jesus is a verb.
Your greatest legacy isn’t your dream. Your greatest legacy is the next generation of dreamers that your dream inspires – the dreams within a dream.
We should live with a holy anticipation of what’s around the corner.
When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We’ve got to step up and step in. We’ve got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.
Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals.
When you rise to the challenge of adventurous living, your days will be richer and your soul will be fuller. There will be more risks, more dares, and more obstacles. And in return, there will be more memories that started out as dreams. Adventure doesn’t happen by accident. It has to be intentional.
It’s not about success and failure. It’s not about good days and bad days. It’s not about wealth or poverty. It’s not about health or sickness. It’s not even about life or death. It’s about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.
You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn’t mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It’s an opportunity to glorify God.
Celebrate what you want to see more of. That’s one way to fan into flame the gift of God.
Jesus didn’t carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.
If you go all in and all out for the cause of Christ, there will be setbacks along the way. But remember this: without a crucifixion there can be no resurrection! And when you have a setback, you do not take a step back, because God is already preparing your comeback.
But what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God?
Every divine appointment is preceded by a season of preparation. And if we submit to the preparation, God will fulfill His promise. If we don’t, He won’t. Why? Because God never sets us up to fail.
Prayer isn’t just the way we cultivate our own potential; prayer is the way we recognize potential in others. Like Paul, who saw gifts in Timothy that Timothy couldn’t see in himself, we, through prayer, are enabled to see with prophetic eyes. We are given supernatural insight. Then we are prepared to speak with prophetic boldness into the lives God has positioned in our path.
Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.
God doesn’t always call us to win. Sometimes He just calls us to try. Either way, it’s obedience that glorifies God.
Please read prayerfully what I’m about to write. When God puts a passion in your heart, whether it be relieving starvation in Africa or educating children in the inner city or making movies with redemptive messages, that God-ordained passion becomes your responsibility. And you have a choice to make. Are you going to be irresponsibly responsible or responsibly irresponsible?
The church was never meant to be a noun. And when it turns into a noun, it becomes a turn-off. The church was meant to be a verb, an action verb.
Sometimes God shows up. Sometimes God shows off.