“The key to your spiritual success is focus (emphasis author’s).”- Dr. Tony Evans As Dr. Tony Evans concludes Chapter 13 of Detours, he reminds you of the need to maintain focus on the right perspective as you meander though detours to your destiny. Even though you quite possibly feel removed from purpose, passion, and peace, […]
“Maybe you are in a situation in life where you are saying on a regular basis, ‘I didn’t sign up for this.’ “- Dr. Tony Evans Dr. Tony Evans begins Chapter 13 (The Perspective of Detours)” of Detours with the story of an employer who sent a Christmas memo to all his employees. The memo […]
“Providence includes using the negative to produce a positive.”- Dr. Tony Evans “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.”- Genesis 50:20 (NASB) In Chapter 12 (“The Perfection of Detours”) of Detours, Dr. Tony Evans concentrates […]
“It is impossible to please God apart from faith because faith is the hallmark of providence.”- Dr. Tony Evans Dr. Tony Evans concludes Chapter 10 of Detours as he compares sovereignty and providence. Dr. Evans explains: “Providence . . . expresses one of the key ways God demonstrates His sovereignty in connection with His intentional […]
“The word we use when we refer to God’s sovereign control and arrangement of life is . . . a word punctuated by truth and postulated by accuracy. that word is providence.”- Dr. Tony Evans ” . . .. which He will bring about at the proper time — He who is the blessed and […]
“God has a way of blessing you exactly where you experienced the pain the most.”- Dr. Tony Evans Tony Evans concludes Chapter 10 of Detours as he provides three ways to know you’ve truly forgiven someone. 1. You don’t bring other people into the situation that have nothing to do with the sin. Dr. Evans […]
“In transactional forgiveness, some amount of restoration is sought. You seek to reboot the relationship as much as the situation allows.”- Dr. Tony Evans In Chapter 10 (“The Pleasure of Detours”) of Detours, Dr. Evans presents the topic of transactional forgiveness. Furthermore, he discusses this second topic as modeled in the life of Joseph. Transactional forgiveness: […]
“Forgiveness is a beautiful word when you need it. It is an ugly word when you have to give it.”- Dr. Tony Evans As Dr. Tony Evans concludes Chapter 9 of Detours, he notes that forgiveness operates on two levels: unilateral and transactional. In this chapter, Tony explains unilateral forgiveness. Unilateral forgiveness: occurs when you […]
“Many of us are being hindered from our destiny because we are being held hostage by a leash around our souls called unforgiveness. This leash keeps jerking us back and jerking us back.”- Dr. Tony Evans Dr. Tony Evans begins Chapter 9 (“The Pardon of Detours”) of Detours as he notes that many of us […]
“And in Your eyes I can see/ And in Your arms I will be/ I am not just a man, vastly lost in this world/ Lost in a sea of faces.”- Kutless “What is man that your are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made […]
“Luck, chance, or happenstance. . . . as a believer in God, none of these words should even be in your vocabulary. . . . Providence is the hand of God moving in the glove of history.”- Dr. Tony Evans In Chapter 8 (“The Plan of Detours”) of Detours, Dr. Tony Evans examines another hint […]
“When your preparation meets God’s purpose — your time connects with His time — you are ready to move from detour to destiny.”-Dr. Tony Evans In Chapter 7 “The Promotion of Detours”) of Detours, Tony Evans empathizes with the frustration of “flying” in a holding pattern. Since you don’t know when the plane called destiny […]