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Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.

When we take matters into our own hands, we take God out of the equation.

The only way you can fail is if you stop praying

If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

I think twenty-somethings are very cause-oriented.

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

God doesn't always call us to win. Sometimes He just calls us to try. Either way, it's obedience that glorifies God.

The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.

The healthiest, holiest, and happiest people on the planet are those who laugh at themselves the most.

But what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God?

Until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

But God doesn't call the qualified; God qualifies the called.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility ... Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

Journaling is the difference between learning and remembering. It's also the difference between forgetting and fulfilling our goals.

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.

All of us want to do amazing things for God, but that isn't our job; it is God's job.

A. W. Tozer once said, "Eternity won't be long enough to discover all that God is or praise him for all that he's done."6

If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.

Sometimes God shows up. Sometimes God shows off.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.

Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less.

The size of prayers depends on the size of our God. And if God knows no limits, then neither should our prayers.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

If Christians believe that God is in every person, why don't we act like that?

This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

I've discovered that if I don't take the first step, God generally won't reveal the next step.

God wants us to get where God wants us to go more than we want to get where God wants us to go.

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

No matter how many wrong turns we've taken and no matter how many detours we've been down, it's God's grace that gets us back onto the parade route.

The Bible isn't meant to be read reactively. It is meant to be prayed proactively.

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.

They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles.

Following Jesus is a verb.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

You can take Psalm 84:11 to the bank: No good thing does God withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. PROVERBS 16:9

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

Your prayers are prophecies. You can write the future of your family with your prayers

You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.

The hardest thing about praying hard is enduring unanswered prayers. If you don't guard your heart, unresolved anger toward God can undermine faith.

Never underestimate the ripple effect of one act of obedience.

It will never be all for nothing.

New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

It's not about being in the right place at the right time; it's about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances.

You can either avoid making mistakes and play not to lose, or you can make the most of every opportunity and play to win.

The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God.

One reason many of us never get an answer to our prayers is that all we do is pray.

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.

Success is when those who know you best respect you most.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.

Few things leave as lasting an impression as hearing someone genuinely intercede for you.

Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.

All of us love miracles. We just don't like being in a situation that necessitates one.

Prayer is asking God to do something, future tense; praise is believing that God has already done it, past tense.

Prayer is the way we write the future.

When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

I'm giving you every square inch of the land you set your foot on - just as I promised Moses.

Consecration is going all in and all out for the All in All.

Years ago my friend Alan Groff shared this definition: "love is the accurate estimate and the adequate supply of another person's need.

But Paul knew that his sin was nailed to the cross, and the hammer of God's mercy has no claw.

If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.

Preaching may move the hearts of men, but praying moves the heart of God. And that's where revival comes from.

They force me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.

...when you seek God, success will follow.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.

But remember this: without a crucifixion there can be no resurrection!

Love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.

There is nothing God loves more that keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams.

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

Before you step into what if, you have to get past if only.

If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.

Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different.

praise is a higher dimension of faith.

Albert Einstein said it best: Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.

When you look back on your life, the greatest moments will be the moments when you went all in.

What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year.

Our potential is directly proportional to our prayer life. It is the single greatest indicator of our success in any endeavor.

But if you make a move, you'll see God move. And He can move heaven and earth. Prayer

Going all in is following in the footsteps of Jesus wherever they may lead us,

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.