Crash the Chatterbox Quotes

“Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you’re currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“Because the voice you believe will determine the future you experience.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“Isn’t this a microcosm of how our lives feel sometimes? I don’t completely understand the rules, and I’m surrounded by others who are smarter. Fitter. Funnier. Better. But when we narrow our focus and know where to look for the approval of our Father, life takes on a glorious simplicity. The burning question is no longer “What did they think of that?” Or even “What did I think of that?” Now it’s only “God, were You good with that? Thumbs-up? If You’re good, I’m good.” His acceptance becomes my guidance. And my reward.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“What makes you think you have to turn your life around before you can completely commit your life to God? What makes you think you have to impress God with your obedience before He will impart His grace to you? What makes you think you have to do things to get God to like you, much less love you? What makes you think you have to be the perfect spouse or parent before God will perfectly love you? Many Christians spend a lifetime trying to achieve something that Jesus already achieved for them. God’s acceptance isn’t based on performance. It wasn’t for Jesus. And because of what He did for you, it isn’t for you either. The acceptance He had, you have. The love He unconditionally received, you unconditionally receive. Yes, Jesus was the Son of God. But through Him, you are a child of God with the same privileges.1 That includes the privilege of having God look at you and say, “I am well pleased.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“And even when you can’t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“the voice you believe will determine the future you experience.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from calling your name and setting you apart. He placed you on the earth at a certain time for a pre-decided purpose.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“I tend to be one of those people who takes great pride in calling it like I see it. I say things like, “I’m not being grumpy or negative or pessimistic. I’m just keeping it real.” “I’m not complaining. I’m just calling it like I see it.” But people armed with a spirit of gratitude know that often it is what you call it. So what if, instead of calling it like we see it, we began to call it like God says it?”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“Also, sometimes perhaps we stand by passively, waiting for God to fix the issues that He’s called us to fight in His strength. If we’re going to overcome the thoughts that hold us back, first we have to give up the hope that they’ll ever go away. Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“Gratitude begins where our sense of entitlement ends.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. —SETH GODIN”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“What do you do when your greatest accomplishments lead you straight down the path of an even greater fear? Instead of summoning his faith and standing firm to see the deliverance of his God, Elijah retreats. And in his escape from his geographical surroundings, he begins to back down from the boldness that has characterized his whole ministry up to this point. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. (1 Kings 19:3–5) Now I’m confused. Verse 3 says he was running for his life. Yet verse 4 says he asked God to kill him. Which one is it? Are you looking for life support, Elijah? Or shall God send the angels of euthanasia? One of these things is not like the other. The more I studied this text, though, and considered the context of Elijah’s despair and compared it to similar feelings I’ve experienced under much less duress, the more I got it. Although the text says Elijah ran for his life—and I’m sure that’s how it appeared—it seems like something deeper is going on. In fact, I’m not sure Elijah was running for his life at all, at least not in the sense we would use that phrase. I believe Elijah was actually running from his life. You see, it had been a long, lonely three years for Elijah. Did he survive the drought? Undoubtedly. And through him God won the battle with a unanimous decision. But winning can be as exhausting as losing. Sometimes the pressure of success can drain you at an even deeper level than the frustration of failure. Elijah knows Queen Jezebel doesn’t have the power to call on her gods and end his life. If she had, he’d have been buried beside his bull back on the mountain. So it’s safe to assume that his greatest fear at this point isn’t dying. His greatest fear is living—and having to fight yet another agonizing battle. Jezebel’s threat is ultimately impotent, yes. But that doesn’t make it ineffective. Because fear often finds its power, not in our actual situation, but in what we tell ourselves about our situation.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“The only opportunity the chatterbox ever has to download lies into our heads is if we have allowed it first to delete the memory of who we are in Christ.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“The Enemy can’t keep you from being who God says you are. But he can blind you from realizing who God says you are.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“The more deeply we reinforce our identity in Christ, the more fortified we will be against the onslaught of opposing voices in our lives.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“You can’t be afraid to stare into the pupils of the possibility of pain and see it for what it is.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“It’s resolving to live with the mind-set that declares, My joy is not determined by what happens to me but by what Christ is doing in me and through me.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“The less I can depend on circumstances to define my identity, the more I must look to the Lord to reinforce His thoughts concerning me and to impress them into my heart until I respond as if it’s second nature:”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“When you know who you are, you will know what to do.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“But at the bottom, you see that the same Rock that holds up your life in clear skies is supporting your future when everything around you shakes and rocks and reels.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“When you realize that God is the only One who really has any lasting reward to give, He becomes the only One whose approval you desperately need. You can rest in the fact that you have it—in full measure—because the work of God’s perfect Son, Jesus, secured your acceptance the moment you placed your faith in Him. Before you ever win or lose, God has turned His face toward you. He has chosen you. And He is pleased.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“I will not let the discouragement of what I’m going through make me forget the benefits of belonging to the God who has been so good to me. He has saved me, blessed me, forgiven me, restored me, satisfied me, healed me, crowned me, and renewed me.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“By learning to distinguish between the way God speaks and the way the Enemy speaks, we move toward words of life and grow in the ways of God.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“The Holy Spirit makes us more aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“I hear the things God has spoken about me, and I want so badly to believe them. I want to believe that I’m filled with the Spirit, as He says I am. But if I’m filled with the Spirit, why am I so often led by my selfishness? Why are my motives constantly compromised by socially acceptable expressions of envy and subtle manifestations of greed? If what God says about me is right, why can’t I live the way I claim to believe?”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“Satan’s main job isn’t temptation. It’s accusation.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others

“The only thing we ever have to be afraid of is that we would ever live one moment of one day outside the protection of the One who can command the wind and the waves to be still.”
― Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others