In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

by Mark Batterson

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.

When God gives a vision, He makes provision. It may not add up, but if the vision is from Him, God will make it multiply like the five loaves and two fish.

I believe in the gospel, and the hero is Jesus. If we try to appropriate the anointing of God for selfish purposes, we’re doomed to fail. God won’t share His glory! But He will reveal His glory if we play by His rules for His glory!