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“The early Christians kept calling themselves a doulos in their letters to churches. They proudly bore the title of bond servant. They embraced the identity of a servant, and their identity impacted how they lived. Are you proud to be a bond servant of Christ? Or do you prefer another title? The reality: You are a servant.”
― Eric Geiger, Identity: Who You Are in Christ

“Continue to believe that God gave you what you asked for when you prayed, thanking and praising Him for what He has given, and it will always materialize.”
― F.F. Bosworth, Christ the Healer

“The sacrifice of praise and the giving of thanks is continually done in the faith realm. This is before our blessings have been changed into their visible form.”
― F.F. Bosworth, Christ the Healer

“One of the best ways to be patient is to keep your mind focused on what you are currently doing.”
― Joyce Meyer, The Mind Connection: How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions

“Don’t be so focused on the destination that you fail to enjoy the journey.”
― Joyce Meyer, The Mind Connection: How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions

“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”1”
― Joyce Meyer, The Mind Connection: How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions

“Do not abandon yourself to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Pope John Paul II”
― Joyce Meyer, The Mind Connection: How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions

“Dale Carnegie said, “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
― Joyce Meyer, The Mind Connection: How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Abraham Lincoln”
― Joyce Meyer, The Mind Connection: How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables”
― Joyce Meyer, The Mind Connection: How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions

“In his book I Once Was Blind But Now I Squint, Kent Crockett tells the story of his wife accidentally pulling up to the full-service pump rather than the self-service pump at a gas station. She didn’t realize that she was now paying an extra fifty cents per gallon for the increased service. When she got home and told her husband she had paid seven dollars more than she wanted to, he was upset at the increased cost. He did the math in his head and deduced they could have taken their car 128 more miles had they only paid for self-service. He was angry that the gas station had charged so much more for full service. But then a realization hit him. He said that God showed him that he had sold his joy for seven dollars! Surely his joy was more valuable than that.5 This is a very impactful story that leaves me wondering how often I have sold my joy for even less. Jesus said that He left us His joy.”
― Joyce Meyer, The Mind Connection: How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions

“We can use what we’ve been given for others. Success in itself isn’t a bad thing. There’s never been a day in my life in which I’ve wanted to lose, whether that’s a game or a deal. But I also know that if I allow success to be used in only a self-fulfilling way, I will lack purpose. Significance, however, is about others, loving and serving people. One of the greatest questions you can ask yourself is, Does my life change other people’s lives for the better? When you’re focused on others—when your priorities are wrapped around the Great Commission, bringing the love of Jesus to hurting people—your life counts for more than a title people will forget or an achievement someone will probably surpass in time. Years ago, I heard it said that one of the greatest tragedies in life is to look back one day and say, “I was successful in things that don’t matter.” I am writing this chapter so that you live today with tomorrow in mind and so that your end goal is not shaped by who the world says you are but rather is anchored in whose you are. I don’t want your end goal to be about praise, promotion, and applause; I want it to be about people, purpose, and passion.”
― Tim Tebow, Mission Possible: Go Create a Life That Counts

“Then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless.”
― Anonymous, Amplified Bible

“And He said to them, Be careful what you are hearing. The measure [56][of thought and study] you give [to [57]the truth you hear] will be the measure [58][of virtue and knowledge] that comes back to you—and more [besides] will be given to you who hear.”
― Anonymous, Amplified Bible

“By a constant, careful, diligent, reverent, prayerful study of God’s Word.”
― Kenneth E. Hagin, God's Medicine

“I had to come down to the brink of the grave before I’d do what I’m urging you to do—come to God’s Word in a constant, careful, diligent, reverent, prayerful manner and find out what God’s Word has to say on this subject.”
― Kenneth E. Hagin, God's Medicine

“But it will work if you’ll get it down on the inside of you! Into your heart! The way you do that is not by just reading it and forgetting it. But by meditating upon it. By thinking upon it. By feeding upon it. Until it becomes a part of your inward man.”
― Kenneth E. Hagin, God's Medicine

“Dr. Lilian B. Yeoman’s, a medical doctor who received divine healing for herself and then devoted her life to ministering and teaching this subject, would teach what she called “healing classes” in the daytime during her revival meetings. She wrote in one of her books to this effect, “I almost become angry sometimes. For when we’re studying the Word of God on such an important subject as healing for the body, you can tell people are not paying a bit of attention to it. They’ll thumb through the songbook. Stare off into space. Look out the window. Chew gum. And then those same people want you to pray the prayer of faith for them. Yet they don’t want to do anything themselves.”
― Kenneth E. Hagin, God's Medicine

“Living the right life is almost impossible if you have the wrong friends.”
― Craig Groeschel, The Power to Change: Mastering the Habits That Matter Most

“Faith is being so convinced of the absolute truth of the declarations of God, which are recorded in the Bible, that we act on them.”
― F.F. Bosworth, Christ the Healer

“Until you gain a knowledge of the plan of God which He planned and sent the Lord Jesus to consummate...Until you gain a knowledge of what you are in Christ, and Christ in you...Until you gain a knowledge of what He did for you in His death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and seating at the right hand of the Father...Until you gain a knowledge of what He's doing for you right now, seated at the right hand of the Father where He ever liveth to make intercession for you...Until you gain a knowledge of your standing before the throne of God...Until you gain a knowledge of the fact that He defeated Satan and demons, and that all the forces of the rulers of the darkness of this world are dethroned powers, and that they can't rule over you.”
― Kenneth E. Hagin, Growing Up Spiritually

“No Bible character more fully illustrates the moral range of human nature.”
― Zondervan, NKJV, Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

“J. C. Ryle minced no words when it came to this subject. He stated, “Hell, hell fire, the damnation of hell, eternal damnation, the resurrection of the damnation, everlasting fire, the place of torment, destruction, outer darkness, the worm that never dies, the fire that is not quenched, the place of weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, everlasting punishment…these are the words which the Lord Jesus Christ Himself employs. Away with the miserable nonsense which people talk in this day who tell us that the ministers of the gospel should never speak of hell.”59”
― Rick Renner, A Life Ablaze: Ten Simple Keys to Living on Fire for God

“Appendix 2 Scriptural Confessions”
― Dodie Osteen, If My Heart Could Talk: A Story of Family, Faith, and Miracles