Quotes by Pastors - Page 4

I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.
Craig Groeschel
Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions
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Understanding of divine truths preserves and protects a man in any situation.
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Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer
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Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
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It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom
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We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.
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We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations.
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I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice
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The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling
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If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.
Craig Groeschel
No one can fulfill the calling to extend the reign of love alone
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Our daily endeavours and activities should be about or around these value systems. They reflect love. They reflect care. They reflect kindness. They are qualities of heaven.
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If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.
Timothy J. Keller
We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.
Timothy J. Keller
If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.
Craig Groeschel
Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN
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Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology.
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If you go to anybody and ask them, what is your dream life? They would say I want to sit by the TV all day. I want to play with my friends all day and they think that is the best way to spend their lives. They do not know that what they have just listed is not living life but wasting life.
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Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?
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My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
Craig Groeschel
He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.
Craig Groeschel
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.
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The fame is birthed through the opposition. The success through the dynamism of fighting the despair. No fight, No lift!
Paul Gitwaza
The destiny of the country depends on the actions and the position of His messengers
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Your destiny will be fulfilled as you extend kingdom principles and lifestyle on earth
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Discovering your identity is the key to fulfilling your destiny
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Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world
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Some waste away their lives by drinking, partying or by simply having fun and living for pleasure.
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The deeper the illustration the strengthened the value
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If you do not have any problems, it means you have stopped being of interest to the devil; you are not dangerous to him
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Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.
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We need to start preparing ourselves for the changes we are anticipating in our society
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The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history
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The parent is the child's guide. This shepherding process helps a child to understand himself and the world in which he lives. The parent shepherds a child to assess himself and his responses. He shepherds the child to understand not just the "what" of the child's actions, but also the "why." As the shepherd, you want to help your child understand himself as a creature made by and for God. You cannot show him these things merely by instruction; you must lead him on a path of discovery. You must shepherd his thoughts, helping him to learn discernment and wisdom.
Tedd Tripp
As a parent, you have authority because God calls you to be an authority in your child's life. You have the authority to act on behalf of God. As a father or mother, you do not exercise rule over your jurisdiction, but over God's. You act at his command. You discharge a duty that he has given. You may not try to shape the lives of your children as pleases you, but as pleases him. All you do in your task as parents must be done from this point of view. You must undertake all your instruction, your care and nurture, your correction and discipline, because God has called you to. ... If you are God's agent in this task of providing essential training and instruction of the Lord, then you, too, are a person under authority. You and your child are in the same boat. You are both under God's authority. You have different roles, but the same Master.
Tedd Tripp
No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose.multiplication of his children, He goes ahead to expatiate on his blessings to us
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Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?
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Joy of harvest belongs only to those who endure the pain of sowing.
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When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here in Europe, America and in Africa, I sometimes feel that I am living in my own reality. Either the whole world is getting it wrong or I am just running crazy
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Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality
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God’s passion is to increase and multiply.
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Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.
Craig Groeschel
The world will always try to lure us away so that it can infect us with sin.
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God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him
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Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world
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Always feel obligated to help people and carter for more needs of people so as to be more relevant to the world
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I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change the culture and attitude of our people towards work
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It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world. You were snared. You were hooked. But you don't have to stay that way. Now is the time to deal with the shackles that keep you enslaved. Today you can leave the prison that sexual immorality has created from your past mistakes. Hear your Father's voice call out to you above the noisy clamor of our culture. He says, "I love you. You're free to go now. Sexual sin has no hold on you.
Craig Groeschel
If you are a follower of Jesus Christ , then the world around you will also be subdued
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Christ Is The Lamb Slain From The Foundation Of The World
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There is a mighty force, energy and ability inside us that has not yet been noticed by the world
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There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POWER but by sending his Son
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When it seems there is no way out, it indicates that God wants to manifest His power and glory
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To Influence Every Sphere Of Society Is To Engage The Power Of The Gospel
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Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations
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Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life’s endeavour.
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It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else’s mind and obey someone else’s command when you are a person of victim mentality
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When Christian leaders dare to invade with authority the devil’s domain with kingdom attitude, people listen
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If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country
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