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“All we needed when we first came to Jesus was his grace, and grace is all we need to grow in Christ. Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ says C. S. Lewis.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives

“Self-deception is like this. It blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we’re blind, all the “solutions” we can think of will actually make matters worse. Whether at work or at home, self-deception obscures the truth about ourselves, corrupts our view of others and our circumstances, and inhibits our ability to make”
― Arbinger Institute, Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

“Self-deception is like this. It blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we’re blind, all the “solutions” we can think of will actually make matters worse. Whether at work or at home, self-deception obscures the truth about ourselves, corrupts our view of others and our circumstances, and inhibits our ability to make wise and helpful decisions.”
― Arbinger Institute, Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

“let us remember that the church is God’s project. All we need to do is find out what he wants us to do and how he wants us to do it. When we do that, we are guaranteed his blessing.”
― Mark Conner, Transforming Your Church: Seven Strategic Shifts to Help You Successfully Navigate the 21st Century

“the level of intimacy or closeness in any relationship or group is directly related to the level of openness in that relationship or group. Be open, honest and real. Share how you are really doing.”
― Mark Conner, Transforming Your Church: Seven Strategic Shifts to Help You Successfully Navigate the 21st Century

“People often rise to the level of the encouragement they receive.”
― Mark Conner, Transforming Your Church: Seven Strategic Shifts to Help You Successfully Navigate the 21st Century

“No doubt, the largest churches of tomorrow will be the ones with the most dynamic children’s ministries today. Children and young people are the feeder systems of the church.”
― Mark Conner, Transforming Your Church: Seven Strategic Shifts to Help You Successfully Navigate the 21st Century

“Each person is ignited by different things based on their personal calling and gifting. Pastoral people are more community minded. Administrative or managerial people are more corporation minded. Visionary leaders and pioneers are more cause minded. Together, let’s seek to enhance our sense of community, excel in our corporation and run passionately towards the cause given to us by Jesus Christ.”
― Mark Conner, Transforming Your Church: Seven Strategic Shifts to Help You Successfully Navigate the 21st Century

“No matter how great the power is that the Holy Spirit releases through a prophet, we are to focus our hearts and attention first on loving, worshiping, and obeying Jesus.”
― Mike Bickle, Growing In The Prophetic: A Balanced, Biblical Guide to Using and Nurturing Dreams, Revelations and Spiritual Gifts as God Intended

“If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up.” In this way we can walk together in the fresh move of the Holy Spirit.”
― Mike Bickle, Growing In The Prophetic: A Balanced, Biblical Guide to Using and Nurturing Dreams, Revelations and Spiritual Gifts as God Intended

“a “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim [1] in Jerusalem.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“God created you, and He knows exactly what you need to live your life to the fullest. As your Creator, He can restore you at the end of a draining day—so you can play beautiful music tomorrow!”
― David C. Cook, Good Night, God: Night Time Devotions to End Your Day God's Way

“The only pre-condition for this Holy Spirit outpouring is that we be a people who will see the vision and that we be willing to pay the price for power through prayer and fasting.”
― Mahesh Chavda, The Hidden Power of Prayer and Fasting

“The Lord is waiting for you to ask Him to get involved in your situation. The quickest and surest way to do this is to humble yourself and then to position yourself for triumph, not just victory, according to God’s pattern in Second Chronicles 20:12.”
― Mahesh Chavda, The Hidden Power of Prayer and Fasting

“Fasting is found throughout the Bible. It always seems to show up when ordinary men need extraordinary power, provision, and perseverance to overcome impossible odds, enemies, or obstructions.”
― Mahesh Chavda, The Hidden Power of Prayer and Fasting

“We don’t fast to earn something; we fast to make a connection with our supernatural God. We are cleaning out the “pipe” that connects us to the anointing of God.”
― Mahesh Chavda, The Hidden Power of Prayer and Fasting

“If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up.”
― Mike Bickle, Growing In The Prophetic: A Balanced, Biblical Guide to Using and Nurturing Dreams, Revelations and Spiritual Gifts as God Intended

“disciples of the Messiah needed to be committed to the person of Jesus-not to a cause, a church, an ideal, or even a set of truths.”
― Ron and Mary Bennett, Intentional Disciplemaking: Cultivating Spiritual Maturity in the Local Church

“Something even more difficult than overcoming failure,” he insisted, “is overcoming success.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“Humility is not an option but a nonnegotiable requirement for whoever serves God. Prayer will help us as well.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“We can work without praying, or we can do it while we pray, soaking every place, every appointment, and every activity with God’s presence. That turns work into serving and transforms our activity into something effective.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us