Killing Kryptonite Quotes

“When it comes to leadership, silence is nonverbal communication. It communicates agreement and grants permission by saying, “What you’re doing is fine.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“The reality is, when someone knows the truth, knows the will of God, knows what God has spoken , and yet pushes back and doesn’t obey, it is idolatry . The reason? Their will, agenda, wishes, and desires have been placed above God’s. All of these things come before Him, and an idol.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“Lord, I want to know You the best a man can know You. I want to please You the best a man can please You. Show me Your heart, reveal to me what is important to You, and show me what is not so important to You. Teach me Your ways and may my life bring joy to You . . .”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“In essence, engaging in sin is exchanging a short-term positive for a long-term negative, for after it’s over sin stings us with the long-term consequences of death.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“A believer is drawn into idolatry when he allows his heart to be stirred with discontentment and looks for satisfaction outside of obedience to God. This satisfaction could be a person, possession, or activity.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“The truth is we are defined by our actions, not by our intentions.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“Nós a identificaríamos facilmente como verdadeiros cristãos. Então qual é o fator de separação?”
― John Bevere, Kriptonita: Como destruir o que rouba a sua força

“Se o pecado não for confrontado, pode fazer com o crente o que a kriptonita pode fazer com o Super-Homem, chegando inclusive a ponto de causar morte. Ainda sobre isso, Paulo, como pai espiritual amável que era, alerta a igreja de Corinto, e a nós, a respeito dos efeitos da kriptonita.”
― John Bevere, Kriptonita: Como destruir o que rouba a sua força

“Since God had given man the earth, He couldn’t get it back as God—it would take the Son of man to reclaim it. This is the wisdom of Jesus being born of a virgin: He became one hundred percent man but since His Father was the Spirit of God, He was free from the enslaved nature humankind had fallen into. Jesus was God manifested in the flesh. He knew the horrendous suffering that would be involved in rescuing us, but He loved us so deeply and completely that He freely chose to pay the price for our freedom.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“All who have come into relationship with Him know His presence, power, splendor, and majesty are unfathomable and beyond comparison. He’s so mighty that some of the most powerful beings in the universe, called seraphim, continually stand in awe in heaven and piercingly cry out to each other about His awesome greatness. These massive beings do this with such passion and strength that their voices shake the doorposts of an enormous arena in heaven that likely holds more than a billion beings.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“God’s weapons are His Word, wisdom, and counsel. Worldly weapons are society’s philosophy, culture, customs, laws, or lifestyles that are contrary to God’s Word. You may question, “The world has weapons?” Oh yes, there is a continual onslaught of hell via the world’s system to compromise the Christian and unbeliever alike.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“We see this message repeatedly, because it is the core mission of Jesus’s ministry. He declares, “‘I have come to call . . . those who know they are sinners and need to repent’” (Luke 5:32). Consider the word “need.” Repentance is not optional. Jesus also made this statement to a group of people: “‘You will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God’” (Luke 13:3). Here’s the truth: There is no turning to God without repentance.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“The proof that we believe something isn’t when we agree with what someone teaches us, it’s when we act on it.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“Silence Gives Consent”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength

“Take Action Perhaps you have seen the movie Gladiator and remember hearing General Maximus shout, “Stay together! As one!” and you saw the victories that strategy brought. It’s no secret that the most effective military strategy is divide and conquer. Jesus knew this well and taught that a house divided against itself cannot stand (see Matthew 12:25). When the body of Christ is divided in its loyalties to Christ, it is weakened as a whole. This means that one of the greatest things you can do for the worldwide impact of the church is to live your own life wholly devoted to Jesus’s cause. This means dedicating all your regular, everyday activities to God as worship to Him. God wants your whole life, not just your Sunday mornings. If you are not living your entire life—work, family, hobbies, etc.—as worship to God, repent today. Ask Jesus to give you vision for what a lifestyle of worship looks like in your life. Write down what He shows or tells you and ask God’s Spirit to fill you afresh as you dedicate yourself fully to Him. 4 Contagious Kryptonite The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church.”
― John Bevere, Killing Kryptonite: Destroy What Steals Your Strength