“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“The most critical test you will ever face is the test for suffering when you did nothing wrong.”- Dr. Tony Evans In Chapter 5 (“The Proof of Detours”) of Detours, Dr. Tony Evans notes that when we run into detour after detour, they seem to replicate and multiply rather than taking us anywhere meaningful. Yet, […]
“When you are going through a trial, and you feel the pressure of life caving in around you, how much of God comes out?”- Dr. Tony Evans In Chapter 4 (“The Purifying of Detours”) of Detours, Dr. Tony Evans covers two additional aspects with regard to detour patterns. He discusses the first of those two […]
“Development . . . often a painful process of breaking us out of our own ambitions and independence so we can live a life of surrender and obedience before God.”- Dr. Tony Evans In Chapter 2 (“The Pain of Detours”) of Detours, Tony Evans reminds us sometimes God asks us to take the next step […]
“In order to arrive at an authentic hope in your spirit, accepting your detours is necessary.”- Dr. Tony Evans As Tony Evans concludes Chapter 1 of Detours, he notes a key component in fulfilling your destiny involves understanding your detours. Too often, however, we fail to understand our detours. As a result, we view them […]
“Divinely designed detours . . . positive interruptions designed to divert down a better path so that we might have the opportunity to reach our destination at all.”- Dr. Tony Evans In Chapter 1 (“The Purpose of Detours”) of Detours, Dr. Tony Evans describes his personal feelings about detours. He sighs. He moans. Then, Dr. […]
“But God doesn’t produce off the shelf people. Each person has been custom designed by His loving, sovereign hand.”- Dr. Tony Evans “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”- Proverbs 3:5 As Dr. Tony […]
“Destiny . . . the customized life calling for which God has equipped and ordained us, in order to bring Him the greatest glory and the maximum expansion of His kingdom.”- Dr. Tony Evans “Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”- Isaiah 43:7 Dr. […]
In Chapter 13 (“Snowy Day”) of Chase the Lion, Mark Batterson notes that Alfred Adler proposed his counterintuitive theory of compensation around 1900. The famed psychologist believed perceived disadvantages often come costumed as well-disguised advantages. Dr. Adler put forth his premise that perceived disadvantages force us to develop attitudes and abilities that lie beneath our surface. […]
“A thin place . . . it’s there that we discover that the dream isn’t about us at all.”- Mark Batterson “During harvest time, three of the thirty chief men came down to David at the cave of Adullam . . .”- 2 Samuel 23:13 In Chapter 9 (“On This Spot”) of Chase the Lion, […]