Quotes about Belief

My argument is that we could use some profound works of God in our here and now, and He may just be waiting for us to muster up some corporate belief and start asking Him.

Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9

Promised Land theology becomes an earthbound reality only to those who cash in their fear and complacency for the one ticket out of their long-inhabited wilderness.

We miss one of life's most awesome experiences if we don't see God's Word stand up under our trial. He wants to show us it works. He wants to show us He works! If we stop believing, we will never know the power and faithfulness of God.

Obedience comes from faith.

Let's be careful, though, that we don't err in the opposite extreme of faithless caution. A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants. The latter is our goal.

I wouldn't encourage anyone to believe in a God of heaven if we had no evidence to support that He exists as the Bible says He does. The reason I teach belief in God is that, again and again, I have found Him to be astoundingly believable.

Refuse to let your enemy pluck away the seeds God has planted. Let these truths take root, and cultivate them with belief.

The enemy knows better than we do that nothing is bigger or more powerful than our God.

Of course, maybe that's what I love best of all about God. We've never gone so far that we can't be fetched.

Jesus replied to her, " Woman, your faith is great. Let it be done for you as you want." Matthew 15:28

Fear is the very factor that keeps many of us from fleshing out the biblical reality that we can "do all things through Christ" (Phil 4:13). We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won't if we're too afraid to try.