When I feel fear, I know that the enemy is present, trying to keep me from stepping into my destiny in that moment.

Creativity is normal for any believer who is not influenced by anxiety.

Show me how to carry Your Presence boldly, not trying to reduce Your truth in fear of offending people.

We will no longer make up excuses for powerlessness because powerlessness is inexcusable. Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God. This book is all about that journey…the quest for the King and His Kingdom.

Too many times, the Church makes Christians feel guilty for keeping the Good News to themselves. Instead, we need to create a culture that overflows with God's extravagant love and power. When we experience His abundant goodness, we find it natural to invite others to partake.

We cannot use the political spirit in one situation and think we can be free from it in another. The political spirit uses the fear of man and manipulation to get people to support a particular way of thinking.

But it is illegitimate to allow fear to keep us from pursuing a deeper experience with God! Embracing such fear causes a failure to the other extreme, which is culturally more acceptable, but significantly worse in eternity.

Fear attacks the foundation of our relationship with God—our faith. Fear is faith in the devil; it is also called unbelief.

Fear is the guard dog that is protecting the fortress of spiritual prosperity. When the dog starts barking, we know that the treasure he is guarding is near.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer.