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The kingdom of God is child-centric. The way we grow up spiritually is by becoming more and more like a little child.
Jesus paid the penalty for our sin, but that is just the beginning. Jesus came to reverse the psychological and spiritual effects of aging.
Conversion kick-starts two sanctification processes: Christ-likeness and childlikeness. Spiritual maturity is becoming more like Christ and more like a little child.
part of Neos is regaining the limitlessness of youth. Regaining the idea that we have been created by a limitless God to have limitless dreams and imaginations.
Remember this: we serve an unlimited God with unlimited resources. A God who looked at a few loaves and fishes and saw a banquet for five thousand people.
“Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
self-consciousness isn’t just a curse. It is part of The Curse.
The end result is the crucifixion of ungodly inhibitions that keep us from chasing lions.
Nine times out of ten, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don’t like about ourselves.
I think Saul woke up with scratches on his face because he slept with his crown on his head.
He found his identity and security in the God who anointed him king of Israel.
“It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the LORD. I will become even more undignified than this,
and I will be humiliated in my own eyes.”
“I am willing to act like a fool in order to show my joy in the LORD. Yes, and I am willing to look even more foolish than this.”
Part of taking God more seriously is taking yourself less seriously.
One Hebrew word for worship is halal. It means “clamorously foolish.”
“Those who hear not the music think the dancer is mad.”
That’s what is happening in 2 Samuel 6, isn’t it? David hears the music. Michal doesn’t.
It’s not about what we can do for God. It’s about what God has done for us.
“The worst thing happened that could happen to any fighter—you got civilized.” I wonder if that is exactly what Jesus would say to us.
We have very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified Him “meek and mild,” and recommended Him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.
And the coolest part of the story to me is that Jesus made the whip Himself. Jump back, Indiana Jones!
think the disciples’ jaws were sore the next day because they dropped so hard when they saw Jesus flex His righteous muscles. This incident revealed a dimension of Jesus’s personality that they hadn’t noticed before: “Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: ‘Passion for God’s house burns within me.’ ”
The more we get into God, the more passionate we become.
Lion chasers aren’t afraid of conflict.
they aren’t afraid of risking their lives chasing a lion into a pit. They often look foolish while in the act. It almost seems like they have a death wish. But lion chasers have a life wish. Th...
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The way we grow up spiritually is by becoming more and more like little children.
Part of spiritual maturity is caring less and less about what people think of you and more and
The longer I went without fulfilling that dream, the longer the shadow it cast on the rest of my life.
God is in the business of
strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time.
as long as I pursue God’s calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.
You have to start by trying to comprehend the infiniteness of God so that you can believe He can help you to defy the odds. You have to face your fears, or they’ll hold you back forever.
You have to learn to reframe your problems through Scripture reading, prayer, and worship.
you must take risks.
Then you’re ready to seize the opportunity.
you have to be able to see it ...
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That means getting yourself in tune with t...
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listen to His still, small voice prompting you and believe that He is sett...
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accept that you’re going to look fool...
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What lion is God calling you to chase?
Maybe there’s a lesson He wants you to learn or a blessing He wants to give you.
once you have the lion cornered in the pit, you’ll discover that his roar is worse than his bite when you’ve got God on your
side.
many of us are one lion chase away from our dreams becoming reality.
Long after you are gone, your dreams have the potential to impact nations and generations.
God wants to anoint you to do what you do and to help you do it well.
The Holy Spirit doesn’t make you better than anybody else. He makes you better than yourself! He helps you become the best version of you! The Holy Spirit doesn’t want merely to fill you; He wants to stretch you. He wants to create new capacities within you by instilling new dreams, installing new gifts.
you need a fresh anointing every single day.
