My One Word Quotes

“Only when we begin to let what we believe affect what we do are we able to embrace the process of formation.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Don’t merely read verses; if that is all we do, we run the risk of deceiving ourselves. Don’t just pile up biblical information in your head. Let it soak into your heart. Let it interpret you. And then let it seep out through your actions.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Moses “delayed to come down” (Exodus 32:1 ESV). That is”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“In Acts 1:4, Jesus told his disciples to wait.” To”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“My One Word provides us with a lens, with a new way of seeing. It’s a tool to train our eyes. It helps us frame the way we process the world around us and what happens to us. And”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Most of us feel overwhelmed at the idea of embarking on a grand plan for spiritual formation like reading through the Bible in a year or memorizing a verse every week. We’d like to, but it just hasn’t happened. Enter My One Word. It’s easy, doable, and surprisingly powerful, mainly because it supplies narrowed focus. This book will give you a simple”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Around here you’ll hear people asking each other, “What’s your word?” or, “How’s it going with your one word?” You’ll hear them answer, “My one word is ___, and so far God’s been showing me ____.” Couples,”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“God is more interested in your relationship with him than your usefulness to him. He has created you for himself, not just to execute his plans.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“So, Mike, what do you think God wants you to do with your life?”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“So if we are not patient, we can find ourselves running ahead, using this prayer to get God to rubber-stamp our own plans rather than waiting for him to bring about his plans.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“The Message, Eugene Peterson writes Psalm 73:1–3 like this: “No doubt about it! God is good — good to good people, good to the good-hearted. But I nearly missed it, missed seeing his goodness. I was looking the other way, looking up to the people.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“I am convinced that our struggle to see God at work in our lives is not a result of his lack of work, but rather of our lack of attention to it. Our failure to take the time to articulate it when it happens.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“John Piper writes, “Until you believe that life is war — that the stakes are your soul — you will probably just play at Christianity with no bloodearnestness and no vigilance and no passion and no wartime mindset.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“HEEL This command tells a dog to get in the right place. It’s a place of obedience, discipline, following, and servitude. It’s not pulling the leash trying to get out in front, and it’s not lagging behind, resisting the master’s lead. I find myself needing to get back into my proper place—alongside Jesus, being humble, trusting, obedient, disciplined, and serving. “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8 NASB). — Thomas”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Dallas Willard said, “Bible memorization is absolutely fundamental to spiritual formation. If I had to choose between all the disciplines of the spiritual life and take only one, I would choose Bible memorization.”5”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“I am convinced that our struggle to see God at work in our lives is not a result of his lack of work, but rather of our lack of attention to it. Our failure to take the time to articulate it when it happens. Articulation”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“In his book Shattered Dreams, Larry Crabb explains that God often allows good dreams to shatter in order for great dreams to emerge.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“I am convinced that our struggle to see God at work in our lives is not a result of his lack of work, but rather of our lack of attention to it.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“It is better to do something about one thing than nothing about everything.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Our efforts are not the source of the change we are after; they can’t be. Rather, they get us in a position for God to change us.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Sir Francis Bacon wrote, “Reading maketh a full man … writing an exact man.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Ever notice how it only takes the intentions of one side to create war for both sides?”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Hebrews 11 continues the list of people who trusted God’s promises when they could not see them. This chapter of the Bible begins by saying, “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1).”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“worry-free. We want to earn enough money that we’ll never have to worry about expenses, that we can always pay our bills and have money left to buy the things we want. We want job security and good health and problem-free days. We want to be in control and not have to rely on anyone to get our needs met, including God. “But here’s the deal, honey. If you can always manage your life yourself and solve all your own problems, you won’t feel much need for God. You’ll still have need for God, you just won’t feel it. The life that everyone wants is really a life that doesn’t require any faith. The Bible says that without faith, it is impossible to please God. So if you and I want to be people that please God, we’re going to have to live a life that requires some faith.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“My past mistakes no longer define me. I am UNCHAINED.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Don’t forget that when we stop allowing truth in, either because it’s painful or unflattering or inconvenient, we will wind up self-deceived. Positive thinking is commendable but denial is detrimental.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Dallas Willard said, “Bible memorization is absolutely fundamental to spiritual formation. If I had to choose between all the disciplines of the spiritual life and take only one, I would choose Bible”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“What kind of person do you want to become this year? • What drives your desire to be this kind of person? • Describe the characteristics of this kind of person. Make a list of words based on this description. • Reduce your list to ten words or less and research those words. Use the dictionary and your Bible, perhaps a thesaurus. • Choose one word from your list to be your one word for this year. • Also choose a Bible verse that speaks to you about your chosen”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“Are you trying to change yourself? • Are there areas of your life or character where you are resistant to God’s grace? Do you feel like you’ve hit a plateau in your spiritual growth? Why? • How can we know when to relax and trust God, and when we need to exert more effort? • Study Philippians 2:12–13; 1 Corinthians 15:9–10; and Galatians 3:1–5. Create a simple but clear statement that summarizes the biblical theology of spiritual formation in your own words. Determine who does what in the changing of your heart and character.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word

“KNUCKLEHEAD Hey, KNUCKLEHEAD. Quit worrying about tomorrow. Turn around. Look at the path you’ve taken. Look how God has taken care of you. Look what he has done for you to get you to where you are. It wasn’t by your effort. It was his. Quit trying to rely on yourself. Look at your wonderful wife and brilliant kids. Do you really think you could’ve pulled that off by yourself? Sometimes when you’re in a good mood and everything is going well, you praise God. But when you’re worried about finances or the Red Sea, you revert to your old ways. You think, “What can I do to make it better?” Nothing. You can do nothing. Let God do it, KNUCKLEHEAD.”
― Mike Ashcraft, My One Word: Change Your Life With Just One Word