One of the clear messages of the book of Job: Never assume that blessing means God's favor, or that calamity means God's disapproval. The cross is the greatest example of that truth. The lonely. tortured figure on the tree was actually the most favored one on the hill.
Not once did Jesus talk about being a good leader. We’ve made a million-dollar industry around leadership when it’s a word that Jesus didn’t even use. He talked about servanthood. Andy Byrd
Just because you’re having troubles doesn’t necessarily mean you’re doing something wrong. Joseph made all the right decisions, and still ended up in the blackness of prison.
Abraham isn’t the father of faith because he believed God and got a miracle; he’s the father of faith because he believed God FOR A LONG TIME, in the face of hopeless impossibilities, and in the end ultimately got a miracle.
I want my strongest anointing to be not when I’m standing on a platform but when I’m sitting in the secret place, praying the word.
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Why are you so hungry for the word right now? Because you’re pregnant with promise. You need to eat a double portion in this season to grow the promise that’s inside you.
God talked to Joseph through dreams. So Joseph decided to study dream interpretation. His ability to interpret dreams got him out of prison and into the palace. Identify your God language and then study it.
God created the nations and races intentionally to provide a context where the love of Christ can be more fully expressed on earth between all peoples. Anything that divides the races has demonic energy behind it.
Joseph handled every challenge of life with an excellent spirit. Slavery, prison, prosperity. When you have an excellent spirit, it doesn’t matter what life throws at you.
David worshiped in the way, while Michal watched from her window. There are two groups in every worship service—the worshipers and the watchers. The lovers and the lookers. The sincere and the sarcastic.
The elders fall before the Lamb and cast their crowns before Him because, the longer and deeper you know Him, the more undignified you’re willing to be.
No Scripture tells us to respond to sin with anger. We’re told to respond with mourning, weeping, and repentance. If our brother sins against us we rebuke him (Luke 17:3), but in love not anger.
Solomon was a king who experienced every pleasure his eyes desired, yet lived empty. Jesus is a King who emptied Himself, yet lived full. From Jeff Little’s book, “Who Am I?”
Nobody prophesied at the crucifixion. They blasphemed and reviled Jesus, but nobody saw what was actually going on and prophesied over it. The biggest event of world history, and nobody perceived it.
We don’t change the seasons, they change by forces outside of us. Similarly, we’re not able to change our spiritual seasons. We persevere in grace and wait on Him to change our season.
Some churches may be happy if your body’s in the building and your tithe in the treasury. But those who really love you will never relent until you look, walk, talk, live like Jesus.
It’s biblical to sit in prayer (Mark 14:32). But I can’t find a verse that supports sitting in worship. In worship, the biblical postures are standing, kneeling, and prostration.
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man in the land, and Joseph decided that Pharaoh would never regret giving him such privilege. He used his privilege to make Pharaoh rich. Decide that no one will ever regret giving you privilege.
The warfare is never over your crucifixion. In fact, Satan will help that along. The warfare is always over your resurrection. Satan will use all his powers to resist your rising back up.
Judas saw his association with Jesus as a means for self advancement and gaining significance. He was seeking his life. If you use Jesus as a means to find your significance in life, like Judas you’ll lose it. You must lose your life to find it.
Prayer is the constant calibration of the soul. It is a lifestyle of stopping and taking candid spiritual inventory. This is not spiritual paranoia, but rather the exercise of one who has a healthy fear of God and a sublime desire for glorious heights of intimacy with God.
Many people are so fixated upon their future destiny—where they are going in life—that they miss the glory of the moment.
Be present in the present. Give yourself in your relationship with Jesus in the now, and be equally present when with others.
Rather than focusing on trying to fix our nation, I’m placing my focus instead on being a more faithful disciple of Jesus. Faithful disciples are a light to their nation.