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.
God sets boundaries before He gives blessing.
Nothing gets stronger without resistance.
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.
It is the experience of love that enables us to change.
In Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.
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.
It’s hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion – both cause you to see things that no one else sees.
God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.
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.
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 us are so focused on what we don’t have that we’re blinded to what we do have.
Did you know it’s possible to have the right passion, but have the wrong expression of the right passion?
Don’t be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.
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.
The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!
Opposition doesn’t prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.
True ministry isn’t just ‘cut and paste,’ it has to be birthed from the inside out.
If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.
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.