When God’s putting His finger on the part of your life that’s not working, He’s pointing to your next miracle.

It is part of our inheritance to be, above all, secure and confident in the will of God.

I want you to sense the Holy Spirit brooding over you. Is this too good to be true? You betcha, it's the good news. Does He border on fantasy? You betcha, it's the gospel. Glad tidings of great joy, heaven has come instead of hell, Jesus has come instead of the devil. You can have the life you always wanted, instead of the life you have always had - instead. That is possible because of the absolute, incredible, incomparable favor of God.

When you’re not fully trusting in the Lord you’re concerned mostly about rescue. “I’m a Christian, get me out of here!” And the Lord is saying, “You’re kidding, right? I want to teach you who you are in this situation!” In some of our situations, He gives us power and authority to move. In other situations He gives us patience because that works just as powerfully, it’s just going to take a few extra weeks.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.