Quotes about Ownership

Our Lord makes His disciple His very own possession, becoming responsible for him. "You shall be witnesses to Me" (Acts 1:8). The desire that comes into a disciple is not one of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The missionary's secret is truly being able to say, "I am His, and He is accomplishing His work and His purposes through me." Be

Never consider whether or not you are of use—but always consider that "you are not your own" (1 Corinthians 6:19). You are His.

Our Lord makes a disciple His own possession, He becomes responsible for him. "Ye shall be witnesses unto Me." The spirit that comes in is not that of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The secret of the missionary is—I am His, and He is carrying out His enterprises through me.

Ask, in Aramaic, means a combination of "claim" (as in, that deed to the land is yours) and "demand." To ask for something in prayer is to simply lay hold of what's yours. You have the right, and even the responsibility to command your life.

No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn't my fault.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us.

It's a grace to regret. Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame. But it is also grace that forgives what has been exposed. Grace forces you to feel the pain of your regrets, but never asks you to pay for them, because the price has already been paid by Jesus.

Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

when you blame other people for your circumstances or for the wrongs that you do, you are, in fact, blaming God. You are saying that God didn't give you what you needed to be what he has called you to be and to do what he has called you to do.