Quotes by Pastors - Page 6

Your lifestyle is fulfilling a prophesy
Sunday Adelaja
It follows that a tender heart that reaches for love and understanding is often the easiest to break. Hearts that are open and trusting are usually the ones that are wounded the most. This world is filed with men and woman who have rejected the love offered to them from a heart that is gentle and tender. Those strong, hard-shelled hearts that trust no one, hearts that give so little, hearts that demand love be constantly proved, hearts that are always calculating hearts that are always manipulating and self-serving, hearts that are afraid to risk are the ones that seldom get broken. They don't get wounded, because there is nothing to wound. They are too proud and self-centered to allow anyone else to make them suffer in any way. They go about breaking other hearts and trampling on the fragile souls who touch their lives, simply because they are so thick and dull at heart themselves, and they think everyone should be just as they are.
David Wilkerson
Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.
Rick Warren
The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.
Erwin Raphael McManus
It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.
Bill Hybels
When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.
Erwin Raphael McManus
Authenticity empowers communication.
James L. Nicodem
What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity.
Rick Warren
God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.
Tullian Tchividjian
You cannot break any of God`s laws, you can only break yourself.
Sunday Adelaja
Inferiority complex begins when you agree that you are nothing. No one is responsible or author of it except yourself.
Paul Gitwaza
Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase
Sunday Adelaja
One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis
Sunday Adelaja
To find yourself in a land that seems ungodly is to seek God for the mantle to extend kingdom principles there
Sunday Adelaja
Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised
Sunday Adelaja
Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.
Craig Groeschel
Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance.
Sunday Adelaja
Just as God expressed his great love by giving his son to die for our redemption, so we will express our love for God by giving to others
Sunday Adelaja
To Operate In Misery Is To Disregard The Original Intention Of God
Sunday Adelaja
It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.
Francis Chan
This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.
A.W. Tozer
God can accomplish more through one message in the fulness of the Spirit than through hundreds given in the energy of the flesh.
Oswald J. Smith
The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being sense its kinship to God and leaps us in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God.
A.W. Tozer
The three representative men of the Bible, the natural, the carnal, and the spiritual - Which are you? Are you living in Egypt, the world and home of the natural man, or in the wilderness, the abode of the carnal? ... Are you already through the wilderness, and dwelling in Canaan, the land of the spiritual?
Oswald J. Smith
The fulness of the Spirit is not a question of our getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.
Oswald J. Smith
And they continued steadfastly (Acts 2:42) - That is to say, they did not backslide. The real reason there are so many backsliders is because there are so many who have never had a forward slide to Jesus Christ.
Oswald J. Smith
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women (Acts 5:14)- So not only was there Holy Ghost boldness and Holy Ghost power and Holy Ghost conviction, but also Holy Ghost conversions.
Oswald J. Smith
Power in Service - The carnal man can never be used in spiritual service. There is so much of the self life about him that God cannot gain control. The Spirit-filled life is necessary for fruitful Christian service.
Oswald J. Smith
I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
Francis Chan
Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
J.D. Greear
I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.
Jim Cymbala
If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.
Mark Batterson
God begins the process of perfecting us from the moment we are converted from unbelief to faith in Christ. The Holy Spirit regenerates us. He give us a new heart with a new set of holy desires (Ezek. 36:26). He transforms our stubborn wills. He opens our hearts to embrace the truth rather than reject it. He enables us to believe rather than doubt. He gives us a hunger for righteousness an a desire for Him. And thus the new birth transforms the inner person. From that point on, everything that occurs in our lives - good or bad - God uses to move us toward being like Christ (Rom. 8:28-30).
John MacArthur
Our success depends on the Holy Spirit, who lives and acts through us.
Sunday Adelaja
Christianity through the operation of the Holy Spirit affirms unity as well as variety (diversity) in the Body of Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
The main duty of ministers is to be obedient to God, following the Holy Spirit to obey everything that He instructs them to do.
Sunday Adelaja
Unless you are led and directed by the Holy Spirit, you will never be truely successful in your ministry.
Sunday Adelaja
Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.
A.W. Tozer
When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.
David Wilkerson
Waiting is a very active part of living. Waiting on God, if we do it correctly, is anything but passive. Waiting works its way out in very deliberate actions, very intentionally searching the Scriptures and praying, intense moments of humility, and self-realization of our finiteness. With the waiting comes learning. I can’t think of much I’ve learned that’s positive from the times I’ve plowed ahead without waiting on God.
Wayne Stiles
God is waiting for you to bear fruits
Sunday Adelaja
Desperate prayers may be an indication of spiritual health rather than a sign of spiritual deficiency.
Jeff Manion
It’s mostly during times of wilderness experience, that people are willing to accept the lessonsthat wisdom teaches
Sunday Adelaja
Lessons are learned through making mistakes, falling and rising.
Sunday Adelaja
If we don’t confront those things that are wrong, it gets worse.
Sunday Adelaja
To understand the principle of love is to eradicate wrong acts
Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing wrong with the harvest
Sunday Adelaja
To find solace in the wrong area as it seems to be at first is to seek God for direction
Sunday Adelaja
Equipped for battle Golden truths
Sunday Adelaja
We need to remember that our fight is spiritual. Our battle is a fight of faith, will, long suffering, and persistence.
Sunday Adelaja
You cannot possess your Promised Land without a battle.
Sunday Adelaja
The establishment of the kingdom of God is forever
Sunday Adelaja
Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.
Joshua Harris
God is able to really use a person, who puts all that he has got into his work, who works hard, sweating his guts out to the point of complete exhaustion, using the last of his strength
Sunday Adelaja
Be an example of commitment to others, and encourage them to be committed as well.
Sunday Adelaja
Your commitment must be full, and then you will see fruit.
Sunday Adelaja
You must be more committed to the truth of God's word and what is right than the flaws in our society.
Sunday Adelaja
...if you give all of yourself to God, you can ask and expect that God will give all of Himself to you because that's precisely what He wants to do. We have not because we ask not, and we ask not because we're not all in!
Mark Batterson
Your commitment should stand even in a fallen state
Sunday Adelaja
Success can not be measured in dollars and cents.
Adam LiVecchi