Your Mess is Your Message Quotes

“This is why we need the Word and Spirit along with our community of believers to help us stay on the narrow road. You keep getting the Word in you until you reach the point when the Seed begins to take root and becomes so strong that you can’t pull it up. I love a prophetic culture, but I don’t love it more than a Word culture. It has happened again and again over the course of history—the Holy Spirit lands in a place and a movement is birthed with a strong foundation on the Word, but then it became about the Spirit. We need to understand that it is not either/or—Spirit or Word—it is Spirit and Word. The Spirit of God testifies to the Word of God. I”
― Chad Norris, Your Mess is Your Message: How God Can Use Your Brokenness to Help Others

“When there’s no power in my life, instead of going from place to place, conference to conference trying to find it, I need to stop and get into the Word so that the Word can get in me. I’m lacking because there is a lack of seed growing in me. It begins with the Seed of the Word. If I am in a love deficit with the Father, turning to someone else to fill that deficit isn’t going to do it. There is a better way. Take ten passages about His love and get the Seed down into you. Then, in community, let that seed be watered by other people’s words falling on top of the written Word in you. Let the podcasts and conference speakers water what is already growing in you. Over time, you will find that you have fruit. You will begin to believe the Word. You will begin to shape your thoughts according to that Truth. You will have a new confidence, built not on faith, or circumstances, but on the very principles of the Word of God.”
― Chad Norris, Your Mess is Your Message: How God Can Use Your Brokenness to Help Others