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It’s never too late to become who you’ve always dreamed of being.
you chase even bigger lions!
Dreaming big enables you to fail forward.
have a few scars from lions I
have chased, but I wear them as a badge of honor.
Chase the Lion. It picks up where In a Pit leaves off.
The greatest opportunities are still the scariest lions.
to the Infinite, all finites are equal.
In regard to time, paniym can refer to the split second before something happens and the split second after something happens.
In regard to space, it can refer to the space right in front or right in back of you.
Let me try to put it in scientific terms. The shortest possible time is 10-43 seconds. It is called Planck time. Any shorter and quantum mechanics can’t tell whether events are simultaneous. The shortest possible distance is 1.6 × 10-35 meters. It’s called Planck length. Any shorter and quantum mechanics can’t distinguish between here and there.
In very simplistic terms, a dimension is a way you can move. And the number of dimensions determines what is and what is not possible. The
Think of it in terms of a newspaper comic.
comic-strip characters are prisoners of two dimensions.
if a comic-strip character could take on a third dimension. The added degree of freedom would enable him to jump right off the page.
problems seem really big because our God seems really small.
Tozer said a “low view of God…is the cause of a hundred lesser evils.”
Lion chasers know that their best thought about God on their best day falls infinitely short of how great God really is.
Astronomers have spied galaxies 12.3 billion light-years from earth. To
light traveling 186,000 miles per second only takes eight minutes to travel the 93 million miles between the sun and
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Sunlight is only eight minutes old. But light from the farthest galaxy takes 12.3 billion years to get here. That dista...
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Your best thought about God on your best day falls 12.3 billion light-years short of how great...
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Maybe it’s time to stop putting God in a box the size of your cerebral cortex.
the bigger God gets, the smaller our lions will become.
God has considered every contingency in your life, and He always has your best interest at heart. And that sense of destiny, rooted in the sovereignty of God, helps you pray the unthinkable and attempt the impossible.
If you drop your keys in a river of molten lava, let ’em go man, ’cause they’re gone!
Any mineral with a density greater than one gram per cubic centimeter doesn’t float. The density of cast iron is approximately 7.2 grams per cubic centimeter.
And the iron did swim.
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great but because nothing is too small for Him either.
When it comes to God, there are no degrees of difficulty.
But lion chasers aren’t afraid of doing something that seems ridiculous to others—because they know anything is possible with God.
we dared to dream a God-sized dream.
“Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
God had a contract on that property.
God isn’t just recording those acts of righteousness. He is rejoicing over you the way a parent rejoices over a child.
“Did you see what my boy Benaiah did?”
Lion chasers defy the odds—and make their Father proud.
impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles.
The mistake most of us make when it comes to God is that we think He is four-dimensional. But God has no dimensional limits.
God is always working behind the scenes, engineering our circumstances and setting us up for success.
What could you do today to begin to live with a bigger, better view of God?
Unlearning Your Fears
The price of our vitality is the sum of our fears.
had the opportunity to preach to thousands of Ethiopian believers who worship God with a spiritual intensity I’ve rarely seen in America.
She decided to live her life in a way that was worth telling stories about:
I only needed one reason to go: I was called.
thanked Him for the waterfall and the mountains. I even
What if Sarah had let fear keep her from going on the trip? Think of how many amazing experiences she would have forfeited.
Think of the
