The God Ask Quotes

“Unless I keep my mind and heart fixed on the love and power of Christ, I will be a victim rather than victor”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“let’s set our minds and emotions on our great Provider, Jehovah-Jirah, and believe He wants to fully furnish all our needs.”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“My wife and I have had the joy of working with thousands of college students and have engaged in countless conversations with them about what they’re going to do as they approach graduation. Up to that point, they had felt safe and secure knowing they were simply coming back to campus for another year of school. But now that they were being kicked out of the nest, they felt a strong need to pray, get counsel, pursue options, and make decisions. As I chat with these twenty-one to twenty-five-year olds, I love to pose an unusual question. “If you could do anything with your life, what would you want to do? Just for a moment, free your mind from school loans or parents’ wishes or boyfriend pressure. Put no constraints or parameters on it. Write down what you would love to do with your life if you got to choose.” There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those! Most have never allowed their mind or heart to think that broadly or freely. They’ve been conditioned to operate under some set of exterior expectations or self-imposed limitations. A few have sat there so long staring at that blank sheet, I thought they might pass out! They finally get an inspirational thought, and begin enthusiastically scribbling something. They finish with a smile, pass it over to me, and I take a look. Nine out of ten times I pass it back to them, look deep into their eyes and quietly say, “Go do this.” There is a reason they feel so excited about the specific direction, cause, or vocation they wrote down. It’s because God is the One who put it in their heart. “Delight yourself in the LORD; and He will give you the desires of your heart” (Psalm 37:4). “Are you delighting yourself in the Lord?” I ask the graduating senior. “I am certainly seeking to,” they reply. “Well then,” I respond, “you’ve just written down the desires of your heart. So, go for it.” Too simplistic or idealistic? I probably do have a more “wide-open” view of helping a person discover God’s direction for their life, but I believe this exercise strikes at the core of understanding what each of us were designed to do.”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“He then asks a penetrating question, “If you had permission to do what you really want to do, what would you do? Don’t ask how—that will cut your desire off at the knees. How is never the right question. How is a faithless question; it means ‘unless I can see my way clearly I won’t venture forth.’”16”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.”77 A. W. Tozer, Author and Evangelist”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those!”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“Psalm 138:3: “On the day I called, You answered me; You made me bold with strength in my soul.” It is daily, even moment by moment, going to the Lord of the universe and making “The God Ask.” He will go before us. He will deliver us. He will show Himself powerful. He will give us all we need.”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us” (Ephesians 3:20).”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“We cannot change our past or how people will act. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.”41 Chuck Swindoll, Pastor and Author”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“You are not raising support, but supporters. Technically, we are ‘supporter raising.’ We are raising people, not money.”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“You never know what the Lord may do, and you might be the only light in their darkness”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“Life begins where your comfort zone ends.”25 Todd Ahrend, International Director of The Traveling Team”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“Feelings aren’t facts. You don’t have to believe everything you tell yourself!”13 Rick Warren, Pastor and Author”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising

“The future has many names: The Lazy call it: The Impossible. The Fearful refer to it as: The Unknown. But The Courageous embrace it by saying: ‘This is my Challenge.”
― Steve Shadrach, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising