“When you surround yourself with people you admire, who live in a way that inspires you, they start to rub off on you. I call it ‘bumping into someone’s anointing.’ It’s not something that can simply be taught. It has to be caught.”- Mark Batterson (emphasis author’s) “It is amazing what you can accomplish if […]
Help is Here: Finding Fresh Strength . . . Max Lucado titles his latest book Help is Here: Finding Fresh Strength and Purpose in the Power of the Holy Spirit (Thomas Nelson, 2022). Currently, Max serves as Teaching Minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. Most significantly, Pastor Lucado asserts, it’s not God’s […]
“God wants to speak to us about who He has called us to be and what He has called us to do, and to ignite a mandate on our lives, but what is required is separation to our inner room.”- Banning Liebscher “And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and […]
“The training ground for a leader in the kingdom of God can often mean years of difficult, unfair treatment.”- Os Hillman As Os Hillman continues Chapter 10 of The Joseph Calling, he notes that “sometimes obedience does not yield less adversity, it actually increases it.” In fact, the author states, often the ways of God […]
“Don’t fear the desert; it is there where you will hear God’s voice as never before.”- Os Hillman “Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyard, and will make the Valley of Achor (trouble) a […]
“But with God and three pennies, I can do anything.”- Mother Teresa Shortly after Mother Teresa took her vows, she shared her vision, her what if, with her mother superiors. She told them she had three pennies and a dream from God to build an orphanage. Displaying narrow framing, Mother Teresa’s superiors told her three […]
“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, ‘Mine!’”- Abraham Kuyper, Dutch theologian Referencing the all-encompassing anointing John speaks of in his first epistle (1 John 2:27), Mark Batterson states that “it doesn’t matter what you do, God […]
“But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you.”- 1 John 2:27 Mark Batterson continues Chapter 5 of The Grave Robber with the story of Steve Stewart. Steve was asked by the Water4Foundation to design a water pump that could work anywhere in […]