Enemy can’t do a thing to diminish God’s promises – that ability is decidedly beyond the limits of his power. So instead he lures you into places where your perspective of God’s promises will be diminished.
Since God authored this day and He knows the end from the beginning, you might as well relax and enjoy the plot twists.
In other words, you either kick fear out of your heart or it will keep you out of the places God has prepared for you.
True freedom in Christ comes when you realize you have nothing to prove to anyone, because in Christ, God fully approves of you.
I had learned over time that the gospel isn’t about what God wants from us but what he wants for us.
Our purpose statement is: So that people far from God will be filled with life in Christ.
The call to be greater is the call to walk with God, Himself.
You can spend your life clutching and clawing and fighting, but what you really need is for God to grab you. For grace to grasp you.
The greatest risk you can take in your life is to risk nothing with your life. To live life in the kiddie pool. To make your ultimate ambition a completely safe life. Because then if you fail, it’s embarrassing. And if you succeed, it’s insulting to a God who had much bigger things in mind for your life.
The first truth is this: When it comes to hearing God’s voice, identity always comes before activity. And that’s a spiritual secret the chatterbox was hoping you’d never discover.
This is one of the main reasons we struggle with insecurity: we’re comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else’s highlight reel.
If God wants us to hear and know and obey His voice, why does He whisper?
How many cycles of predictable yet completely avoidable defeat will we have to face before we get serious about replacing our faulty understandings with a foundation of God’s favor? When we neglect this process – out of ignorance or out of habit or because it’s easier to live in the predictability of slavery than the responsibility of true freedom – we sabotage ourselves.
The key is training your mind to know the difference between the Enemy’s threats and God’s whispers – and conditioning your heart to respond accordingly.
You don’t have to sing a single note to get God – or anyone else – to notice you.
What are you forfeiting in your life – right now – because of the force of fear pushing against your faith? Because you’re listening to the wrong voice?
Our sin is our personal responsibility, but in Christ it is no longer the center of our identity.
Remember, God’s name is I AM. So anytime we take his name and fill in the third word with things that are contradictory to what God says about us, we are taking his name in vain. When.
At some point we all have to get over our pride and own our deficiencies and dependencies.
What do you do when your greatest accomplishments lead you straight down the path of an even greater fear?