Quotes by Pastors - Page 136

While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life.
Charles R. Swindoll
The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.
Max Lucado
God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.
Rob Bell
Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.
Randy Alcorn
We all have visions both great and small
Sunday Adelaja
Your calling is your life assignment
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Friends, you like it or not, life has a way of teaching us all these tough lessons.
Sunday Adelaja
Miracle focus gospel is creating an illusion in peoples head
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The kingdom of God is within you
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We are to show unsaved people the way out
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God desires to use you is to use you in the best possible fashion.
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Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]
Mark Batterson
A mapping of discovery should be carried out
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The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.
Mark Buchanan
We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch.
Sunday Adelaja
You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
Craig Groeschel
Money can bring the children into places of power and influence
Sunday Adelaja
The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)
Robin R. Meyers
Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it.
Todd Stocker
A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction
Sunday Adelaja
The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.
Warren W. Wiersbe
I wish you could stop wasting your life to fulfill other people’s dreams.
Sunday Adelaja
It is so easy to have problems with people when you are not God's will.
Paul Gitwaza
Set a clear focus in your life , and fear will be crowded out. The more you fix your eyes on God’s purpose for you, the more you will overcome your fear.
David Jeremiah
A lack of knowledge about your life mission does not abolish the mission itself
Sunday Adelaja
The passion in the heart of God is to be established
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No matter how giant and rich you are, if you are isolated you will fall and remain alone in this world
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God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven
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Even if your world seems to be falling apart, you can be confident in that you are in His hand of grace.
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Make sure your sphere of influence is a piece of Heaven
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Why does it seem that the church is more interested in people involvement rather than people engagement.
Todd Stocker
Glorifying people is the most noble act
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Every gift, talent and every calling that you have from God has been given to you because somebody needs it
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You must not allow the hurt of the past to haunt or hinder you from fulfilling and performing your duties as one who has a passion to impact his society and make a change.
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You must know what you do with your time if you must become great in this life.
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Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered.
Sunday Adelaja
The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses instead to traffic what can be found on any street corner or at the local mall. You may ask, "But how has the church done that?" * By offering secularists what they find mildly interesting and calling it church.*By submitting to self-help sermons where encounter with God is not even on the agenda.* By letting the horizontal excellence of the show stand in for Vertical impact.*By substituting the surprise or shock of superficial entertainment for the supernatural.Church was designed to deliver what we were created to long for. Church must again be about a Vertical encounter that interrupts and alters everything.
James MacDonald
Different function is a function of different system
Sunday Adelaja
Mercy is to care, and care very deeply about one another. It is to care to the point where we are prepared to be involved with the sufferings and adversities of others. It implies that I am prepared to put myself in the other person's place. It means that I shall try to really understand why they behave as they do, even though it injures me. It is a willingness to walk a mile in the other man's moccasins before I criticize his conduct. It is the extension of good will, help, forgiveness, compassion and kindness to one who may not seem to deserve it.
W. Phillip Keller
Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence.
Sunday Adelaja
Greatness is not greater than you. You have total control over greatness. You can decide to be great and it will happen.
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The only power the devil has is in our area of ignorance.
Sunday Adelaja
Keep at it! Remember marketing is building a relationship! If you use marketing for a year and stop, you cut off your relationship with the larger community. Then you will have to re-start the relationship all over again. The old adage “it takes six to stick” is proven true over and over again. I realized this in year three of our church plant. I think of the hundreds of people that came to our services that had no connection with me or our people because we were willing to build a sustained relationship with them through marketing.
Gary Rohrmayer
When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
Max Lucado
We are molding Jesus into our image. He's beginning to look a lot like us because, after all, that is who we are most comfortable with. The danger now is when we gather in our church buildings to sing, and lift up our hands in worship, we may not actually be worshiping the Jesus of the Bible. Instead, we may be worshiping ourselves.
David Platt
Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.
Andy Stanley
Use time to be a seeker of the Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
It takes wisdom, power and influence to be able to make a positive impact on what goes on in society and in the nation as a whole.
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A Prayer does not need to become a ritual.
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God did not create you for sorrow and sickness
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Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.
Rick Warren
The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God
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An Ignited Passion Results In Purpose Accomplishment
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Rich people do not work for money, they devote themselves to the work they love and do not wait for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but keep working passionately until the end of their lives
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Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work
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You can multiply your life through work, not jobs
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You can produce as many products as you want in life if you just apply the principle of time conversion.
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This generation does not understand the wealth of time. No wonder there are only a few superstars and great men emerging from this generation.
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Use your money to meet the need of your neighbor
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The greatest enemy of any person is his own ego.
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