"The reason God gave you an imagination and the reason that he speaks to people in dreams and visions

is because those things are not based in logic or rationale. They open you up to a realm of thinking that logic is incapable of getting to!" "We are accepted in the Beloved. We have the mind of Christ. Our only problem is we dont quite realize how brilliant we are yet.
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situation that we encounter is to be used to express the goodness of God. church is the only organization on Earth that exists for the benefit of its nonmembers.

"In every situation we face, God is already in the situation with me, because we carry him in the inner man of our spirit. We are learning therefore that God is not touching us from outside - He is actually rising up from within, because He has already taken up residence in us." "What if all your circumstances - good, bad or ugly - are really a source of strength to you? What if God is using a bad situation to strengthen your belief? Maybe He wants to teach you a bit of patience and perseverance. Just stay close to Him and dont panic!" "Every one of us has treasure. The Holy Spirit is teaching us to abide so that treasure can be seen and can be spent on somebody else as well as ourselves."

"It's goodness that puts our lives into alignment. When you come into alignment with heaven, you release its resources." "Decide who you want to be and the Holy Spirit will empower you to become it."
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you are traveling in the goodness of God, you dont recognize enemies. we have a giant in our life it is because we are meant to be a giant ourselves. The circumstances in front of us are designed therefore to increase our size in the Spirit. So upgrade your stature in relation to Jesus; and radically increase your power in the Holy Spirit. Or, if you prefer, just quit and never realize your true self and the inheritance that goes with it.

"God is not teaching us how to overcome negativity. He's teaching us to rise above and ignore it because there's a better place to live from." "Timing belongs to God. Preparation belongs to us." "You should not be controlled by your circumstances. You should be controlled by the experience of God that youre having in them." "When Jesus comes back, it's not to rescue the church from the world - it's to rescue the world from us!"

"Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it." "We must be a visual aid to the whole Earth. They don't read their Bible but they do read their Christians. We are the physical, tangible evidence that God is brilliantly, incredibly, astonishingly full of goodness!" "We're learning how to stop thinking in small ways and to open ourselves up to something bigger. If all fullness dwells in Him, then all resources are subject to Him." "Who are we in relation to the people who don't know God? That's the real test of our community. Do people even know that we exist? Do the people around us know what the heart of God is for them and can they see it expressed in the people of God?" "Let goodness rule your entire life. Be filled to overflowing with God's glory. The glory of your God is that He is GOOD." "God wants you to RUN to your destiny. You should match your intentionality to His." "We always give our way into our blessing and our future. Being a contribution to everyone you meet means that you attract favor and blessing constantly."

"Everything we do is covered by the grace of God. His compassion, His mercy, His love, His faithfulness, His forgiveness: its all ours. He will always be like this because He has promised us He would. This is the uncommon love of God, and it is our privilege to live there." "We are people called to be happy in God; if we dont have joy in our relationship with Him, how can we expect anyone else to?!" "You have the authority to speak blessing and release it in every circumstance. God's invitation is always present. It comes with His Presence that never leaves you nor forsakes you." "Celebration is a way of life. A necessity, not an option. It must be planned for, prepared for and practiced. We do not drift to the top of a mountain. We exhibit a commitment to all the preparation and training required to get there." "Holiness is not about dealing with sin. It's about loving righteousness." "When God looks at you, He does not see anything wrong or negative at you. He has dealt with sin once and for all in this world." "There is nothing you can do that would make Gold love you more...and there is nothing you can do that would make God love you less."

"There is something about the Father that loves to give. When you are touched by the heart of the Father, you become a giver yourself." "Life is about intentionality. It's about the building and the increasing of intention in your own heart. I am going to follow after God with everything I have; I don't care what's in front of me! Every obstacle is going to teach me how to raise my sights so I can see above it. Everything that comes against me is going to enable me to go after God even more!" "Our highest goal is to be as much like Jesus as possible in this life without any hint of apology."
Grace

is the empowering presence of God to become exactly who you are supposed to be.

"It's time to stop being poor in spirit. It's time to stop being mediocre in our expectations. It's time we rose up and occupied the place that Jesus died for us to occupy!" "We are on this voyage of discovery and we are discovering just how BRILLIANT we are. We are discovering just how beautiful we really are in Christ. We are discovering joy and wonder. We are learning the extent of our favor!"

"Joy is the abiding atmosphere of Heaven, not suffering. Joy is always on the agenda because joy is the nature of God." "Love doesn't seek a return. Love loves for the sake of loving!" "There comes a point where you have to pass from faith to knowledge. Faith is an introduction to something. Knowledge is an experience of what God has introduced you to." "In God's heart, Favor isn't a one-off experience. It's not an event, it's a lifestyle." "Nobody makes you angry, you chose it. You could have been kind. You could have been merciful. You could have been loving. You could have been understanding and generous. No one makes you angry, YOU chose to become angry." "My preferred way of living is to see the God in everything; to see the good in everything and to believe the best. I will never allow my life to be defined by a negative. I will never allow my life to be defined by people who don't like me!" "Whatever has the capacity to keep your attention, good or bad, has power and influence over you. It is time for us to prosper in our circumstances, even if they are against us! It is time to stop seeing the negative and allowing it to stop us."

"Process is the story of our journey. The journey is not about reaching the destination. It is about how we travel and who we become on the way." "You don't deal with a negative by focusing on it. You focus on the opposite provision, and the negative becomes displaced by the provision that God gives you." "When you see a negative in someone, God doesn't want you to talk about it. God wants you to understand what they are going through and what their struggle is. He is trying to upgrade your mercy, grace and compassion." "This life is always trying to contain us, reduce us, narrow us down and cut off our options. Life in the spirit is not like that. The spirit of life in Christ Jesus is continuously creative. The spirit of life puts you in touch with the huge generosity of God." "Whatever God sets you free from, He automatically gives you an anointing to set other people free from the very same thing that you were a victim of." "A poverty mindset has nothing to do with finances or economics. Poverty is the willingness to live with meager possibilities."

"You need to have the kind of thoughts that empower you to be joyful, to be confident, to be content, to be at peace, so that the people around you begin to get the benefit of who Jesus really is inside your heart, life and thinking." "What would you attempt for God if you knew you could not fail?" "Your current situation, whatever it is, is telling you something about who you are, who God is and who God wants to be for you. We become people of the spirit when we discover the nature of God in the situation in which we have found ourselves." "The Father is never overwhelmed by anything. Jesus is undefeated. The Holy Spirit always leads us in triumph."
Do

not assist the enemy with the way that you think. Without thinking brilliantly we speculate down rather than thinking upwards. You need to have the kind of thoughts that invite God into the very fabric of your life. You need to THINK BRILLIANTLY!"

"The wilderness is a place that God takes you when He is pleased with you. It's the place where you can discover God the best and the most."

"You cannot live in the favor of God without getting revenge on the enemy. It is so important that we do not live as victims. You are not a victim, you are a WARRIOR." "Don't let your thought processes be dictated by your past. Why don't you think from a place where everything can be new?"
I

will think about myself in the way that God thinks about me. As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.

"God wants to give you an inheritance word about your life. He will give you a passage of scripture and that passage of scripture is yours, to read and study and memorize. Your inheritance word is the doorway to an entirely different life!" "You don't pray for the presence of God. You practice it. We are practicing the presence that we believe in present." "When you feel at your most unlovely state, that is when God kisses you the most. When you feel like you don't deserve it, you're THIS, you're THAT, you're no good...that is when God will come and kiss you. God is astonishing in the way that He will love you!" "It is not our job to pronounce judgment. It is our place to pronounce grace!" "If you want to see things you have never seen before, you must be prepared to do things you have never done before!"

"Somebody else's sin is not your business. Your business is the goodness of God." "Brilliant fathers have great intentions towards their children. They think ahead whilst also living with them in the present. The Father has great plans for you. His intentions say a great deal about you and the quality of life He desires for you." "Every situation, good or bad, makes a withdrawal on our identity. We demonstrate our Christlikeness or our carnality. There is no one else to blame for this since we are in charge of who we are and how we show up. It is not what other people say or do to us that defines our life...it is our response." "What would it mean for you to develop a Christlike consistency towards friend and foe? What would have to change at this time?"
Do

not treat disappointments as houseguests. In the Kingdom we attack the negative and we drive it out. It has no possession nor inheritance with us.

"Get rid of all inappropriate mindsets and attitudes. It's called humbling yourself. Put yourself in a place to receive. Believe simply, expect hugely." "Love the promises of God. Love the process that enables you to see them fulfilled."

"Warfare is not about taking authority over the devil. That is just the consequence. Spiritual warfare is about discovering the sovereignty, the majesty and the supremacy of Jesus for you." "To every disappointment there is an equal and opposite blessing. Determine the blessing, concentrate on that and live in it." "God doesn't call you to a ministry; he calls you to a relationship. "ALL of life is spiritual, so all of your life is a ministry." "Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature." "Difficult people are allowed by God as a gift to teach us how to be Christlike more quickly." "When we experience life from an external perspective we are subject to all the stress and pressure from that realm. When we conduct life from the Spirit, we are vulnerable only to the nature of God and we are open to faith and His character. Power comes from a life lived within Christ and within ourselves." "Divine Acceleration must become a normal part of your experience. Say "yes" more quickly. Respond to the process of growth more obediently!"

"Tension does not mean that something is wrong...it means that something is happening! It is important that we step back from the stress so that tension does not become a friction. Tension tells us that we are close to something in the purpose of God, so make it a positive experience or lose control to the enemy." "God does not measure success by results but by the faithfulness that we display." "Do not wait for circumstances to improve before you think about your future. Your future arises out of your present responses. Owning the future starts NOW." "If our normal tendency is to think from a negative mindset, we need to repent and think again. Worry, anxiety, fear, anger, bitterness and resentment will not enable us to become Christlike. A successful relationship with Jesus is founded on rest, peace, trust, faith and worship." "In Christ we have a delegated authority to destroy negativity!" "Without rest we are bound. We are prone to worry, anxiety and fear. Our anger, bitterness and resentment will get the better of us. Rest allows us space to be. Inner space is freedom to perceive a thing as God sees it. Rest is a prelude to focus. Focus is the forerunner of faith."

"You are at rest, now, in Jesus. Abide in Him. Stay at rest. We do not work hard to acquire rest. It is freely given. We work hard to remain in it." "In order to give us a brilliant future the Father must eradicate our past. When we do not cooperate fully in the present we leave gaps in our obedience that the enemy will exploit." "Are you holding onto grudges, offenses and betrayals? When you think of people who have hurt you in some way, is there still resentment, bitterness or a desire to be vindicated or proven right? If you are harboring unhealthy feelings then the enemy is still beating you up. What joy for him to prevent you from moving on in the Spirit. The antidote is forgiveness, blessing other people and renouncing your own disobedience." "Being anxious and fearful is illegal behavior. Now we have peace. Now we have joy. Now we have love. Now we have rest. THAT is our true nature." "God has ordained that every circumstance is an invitation for you to receive from Him. Always think BLESSING!"

"Unlearning is as much fun as the learning of new things. It is important to lay aside perceptions when they become inappropriate or inaccurate. There should be no condemnation, and that thought alone makes the unlearning enjoyable." "To grow in substance you need a revelation of Jesus greater than your perspective on the situation at hand. Who is Jesus for you RIGHT NOW? What blessing and anointing is present in your circumstances? What does it mean for you to put off the old nature and put on the new?" "It is much better to try and to fail than never have the courage to go after something. Too many missed opportunities lead us into the valley of shadow, where we are a pale version of what we could have been. Passivity, procrastination and caution are all forms of regret. It is where we look back at our fainthearted approach to life and discover how timid we have become. It is vital that our past does not become our future or regret will shadow us all our lives." "Our boldness in coming to God and our sense of expectation will be a huge inspiration to others!" "If we love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, then we must trust Him in the same way. At the very, very least, that means we must banish negativity in our minds and hearts."

"We cannot win if we are afraid to lose. It takes real courage to try something when the odds are against you succeeding. Failure is not to be feared. Failure is less traumatic than regret." "Real wisdom is hidden from us until God reveals it to us. He often chooses to do that in a place of hiddenness. Hiddenness is God's training ground." "Before we open our minds to think through an event that is troubling us, it is helpful to come to a place of worship. To set the problem aside and just focus on worshipping God. The place of worship is the place of faith and trust in God's presence. In the midst of our worship we are renewed in spirit and mind and can easily access a deeper level of spiritual wisdom." "Faith is the capacity to step out without caution. Faith is the empowerment to step into an unsafe place (in the natural) because you have permission from the Lord to go there." "Process is a happy event! Joy is at the heart of all our God encounters. Love is the result of His smile upon us. We are free to change and free to think incredible thoughts about ourselves in the fullness of who God is for us!"

"Faith is demonstrated by our entire person soul, spirit and body. With mental agreement and emotional submission, the action of our will agrees with the focus of the spirit and comes into alignment with who God is and what He wants to do. The instant this happens, breakthrough starts." "Our inner atmosphere determines our external environment. Something or Someone is always going to dictate your circumstances. In Christ you are empowered to make the right choices." "Our worship increases when we are partakers of His presence in our low places. Our weakness is where we encounter abundance. God steps into all that we are not with all that He is, and we are saved." "When the Holy Spirit points to a part of our life that is not working, He is not pointing out our sin. He is not exposing us; He is manifesting the Father. He is exposing only the warmth, the beauty, and the radiance of who God is for us. He is also pointing out the site of our next miracle of grace, indicating our next transformation." "Being loved by God is our starting point for transformation. There is no performance here, no earning of love or grace. It is the place where we stand and relax in His goodness."

"Meekness occurs when we put God first, speaking from His heart and not our own. Meekness is not weakness - it is strength under control." "We develop meekness by becoming submissive and vulnerable to God. To know God's strength, we have to learn how to live in our weaknesses. When we stop crying out to God in hopelessness and begin approaching Him with thankfulness, we discover God's power." "The Holy Spirit is not interested in what we cannot do; He is interested in what we are WILLING to do. If our heart is right before God, no present weakness can prevent us from overcoming the challenges before us." "Prosperity is about giving, not receiving. When we sow, God gives us both a massive harvest to reap and more seed with which to plant." "Every believer has two options when a test arises. They can choose to grapple with it using their mind and emotions or the believer can take these tests in the spirit. When they rely on God for His provision, they move closer to Him. The test is present whether you acknowledge it or not. Passing or failing is mostly a matter of the will being engaged with God's purpose."

"It is a wonderful paradox that each of us is made complete by other people. We learn that we are a general gift to many and a specific gift to some. We must be as enthusiastic about the journey of others as we are with our own." "In days of difficulty, rejoice twice as much. Rejoicing allows gentleness to emerge. We become softer in the Presence of God. More gracious, loving and kind. We view people as He does and we rejoice in their actual resemblance to Jesus or in their potential to be different. Mercy reigns. In this loving engagement, worry becomes an alien experience." "Any behavior that does not take us forward into the nature of God must be discarded. It is the equivalent of going out and leaving the door open and the light on in our home together with a map showing burglars where all our valuables are located. Yes, it really is that dumb." "It is time for an upgrade in your personality. The weak will become strong. The introvert will become bold. The extrovert will realize a new power in humility. The timid will overcome. The anxious will flow into peace and become powerful. God is saying YES to you!"

"Faith is relational; it works by love. It begins and ends in our relationship with Jesus. Our part is to pay attention to His nature. Prophetic ministry speaks of what God is authoring in each of us. We are the echo of God - we speak the same language from the same heart." "God does not measure time, He measures growth. How we respond to a prophetic word dictates what will happen to it and to us." "I believe strongly that the more encouraging, exhorting and comforting prophecy we have, the better our churches can be. Blessing and encouragement stir up anointing." "I can't remember the last time I asked God to encourage me and He didn't. He may not speak it out immediately, but He always meets me at the point of my greatest need. That's just who the Holy Spirit is and what He loves to do." "Relationships are the business of Heaven on earth: that we love one another as He has loved us." "The Holy Spirit is teaching us two things in life: firstly, how to trust the Lord, and secondly, how to be trustworthy ourselves." "It is time for people to banish fear forever and learn to live in the love of God!"

"The truth is that faith and worry cannot inhabit the same space at the same time. One of them has to go, and we get to choose. Likewise with trust and anxiety; they are mutually incompatible and only one can be chosen." "Living in that place where God wants us to be, no matter what the enemy throws at us, will only make us stronger." "I can never understand how a Church can walk away from people when God is dealing with their sin, learned behavior and wrong thought process. We need people the most when we are being adjusted!" "The idea that we can be wholly redeemed without relational involvement with brothers and sisters in the Lord is quite bizarre. We have a saying in England: God redeems us 80% and then He gives us friends." "As mature Christians, we must stop asking people to pray for us to receive something that can only come through our own relationship with God. Should we pray for people? Of course. But we shouldn't develop a culture that says a person needs that prayer to survive spiritually."

"Good shepherds do not treat people like sheep. They understand that shepherding is a metaphor, not an office. Shepherds are sheep also, and they need to lead people in the same manner as they themselves are led by the Lord." "The Father, knowing that our old nature is dead, only relates to our new nature in Christ. Therefore when He looks at us He does not see what is wrong with us. He sees what is missing from our current experience in Christ, and He is deeply committed to our ongoing encounter." "Never ask questions until your heart and mind are in a good place. Worship releases fresh perspective. When we encounter the nature of God, we can stand in His personality and have a better conversation." p "Go with God as He goes after your circumstances. Pursue what you know to be true of God. Continue in worship and trusting. The outcome is God's part; the process is ours." "Immaturity and maturity walk together for a while, thus enabling us to choose one over the other, as do childishness and childlikeness. Never allow the presence of a negative to prevent you from choosing and enjoying its opposite."

"The wheat always grows up with the weeds. Farmers do not consider a crop to be spoiled because weeds are present. Our enjoyment of color and fragrance in flowers should not be ruined by the presence of weeds in the garden. Similarly, we don't allow the enemy to ruin what God is doing in our midst." "All prophets are concerned with the issue of how to think with the mind of Christ. God is not asking us to kiss our brains goodbye! He is requesting that we elevate our thinking to the correct level, and our heart is the elevator that lifts us up into an experience of Presence." "The enemy would love us to live in the present-past. That occurs when we allow past situations to dominate our thinking, perceiving and living in the present. Old wounds, hurts, betrayals and disappointments are still given power by us to affect us in the here and now. The Cross is an end to the old nature. The old nature is dead in Christ, and we must learn to walk in newness of life."

"If you want the presence of God, don't pray for it - practice it." "Whatever the enemy has planned, God has provided an alternative instead. It is our heritage to move in the opposite spirit to what is coming against us." "Life in Christ cannot cease to be abundant simply because the world is having a hard time. 'On Earth as it is in Heaven' is not only the Lord's Prayer, but also our testimony." "We're so busy working through the issues of everyday life that we can sometimes forget how to interact with the very Source of it all. This is the currency that our lives run on. Time is precious. To spend time with someone proves that you love them." "It's not our job to seek God's will. It's our joy to seek His face. I choose to spend time in worship, adoration, and meditation. Seeking the Lord's face is a pleasure. The Lord knows what is coming, and I am confident that He will show me if I cannot work it out for myself!" "Waiting on God is part of our abiding in Christ, learning to dwell and remain in an attentive manner. It's a joy to hang out in the Holy Spirit. It's the simple, beautiful demonstration of the fact that my life is no longer my own. I share all of it with the One who knows me best and loves me the most!"

"Scripture promises us that we will have the light for our whole lives. While there are many verses telling us to seek God, none tell us to seek guidance. God will communicate His will as we develop our relationship with Him."

"The assumptions we make become the actions we produce. That is why we must think BRILLIANTLY!" "When God looks at you, He does not see anything wrong or negative about you. He is fully committed to you becoming the Beloved, and to become the Beloved you must see yourself as God sees you. It is His perception of you that must occupy your affection." "When our mind is renewed it is because we have accepted that God has all the best thoughts, and we want them too! Restoration is the external consequence of an internal renovation. In Christ we get to change our mind for His." "It seems that most discipling involves putting constraints around people so that they do not do things that are inappropriate. We terminate people. We pull them out of their function, but we do not empower them to change. Restriction without development is punishment. Loving people enough to enable them to think again is a powerful part of the Kingdom." "Peace is our umpire in the game of life. Christians should be the most peaceful people on the planet because we're intimately connected to the Prince of Peace! Peace, therefore, should be a by-product of our lives."

"As long as we are fulfilling the conditions for a right relationship with God, we are at peace. When we learn that living in peace is God's design for our life, we can trust Him to shake us up when we move out of His will." "God is silent a lot of the time in regard to His will. He knows that if He is too vocal we will not make the slightest move without His permission. It is His way of teaching us sensitivity and maturity. He wants us to make the right choices ourselves." "We always live from peace, not toward it. I do not push negatives away in order to obtain peace; I HAVE peace. I am refusing to allow it to be disturbed. "In decision making, God does not have to tell us everything. He has given us peace. When we have peace, we keep moving forward. When our peace is disturbed, we stop and ask questions. The way of peace is like a higher education. It takes us to another level so we can process life in a different way. I love the lessons of peace, but it really is the road less travelled." "Rest is a state of promise for all God's people. Initially we have to work hard at rest, so that eventually we become it. We practice rest and peace by pushing away the opposites. I will not allow anxiety, fear, unbelief, worry, panic or any other negative to settle in my heart or mind."

"Theres a reason why God sometimes doesnt give you all the information up front, and that's because if He told you everything beforehand you wouldnt explore. If you dont explore then you cant discover, and its what you discover that takes a hold of you, not the information you get beforehand." "It's in our loving, prayerful conversations with God that we learn wisdom. In our relationship with God we discover how He perceives, thinks and likes to do things. The language He uses towards us is the baseline for our own proclamation." "As we pursue the Lord our vision begins to unfold and we set out on our journey. On this road we shall meet blessings, giftings, opportunities, presence, anointing, power and authority to name but a few! We shall also encounter great love, deep peace, fullness of joy, grace, loving kindness and favor at the very least. We will also have tribulation, opposition, persecution and various kinds of obstacles. All of these things are good for us. Every one of these situations is designed to enable us to grow up in all things in Jesus. Each one is important and must become the subject of a dialogue with the Father."

"When God comes into a place, He fills it with Himself. The reason that there is so much joy in Heaven is because God in Himself is fullness of Joy. So Joy is who God is, and Heaven is full of who God is!" "The primary issue of prayer is that if permission, promise and provision exist in Heaven for someone, then it can be brought to Earth on their behalf. If something exists in Heaven it can brought to Earth and released." "We are the common denominator in all our mistakes. Not to recognize that is to eventually become a failure. If we are going to succeed we must be honest in our personal approach to learning. Loving the learning means being excited about developing. It involves asking questions about how to improve and taking responsibility to upgrade." "We each have a certain sound, like an instrument in an orchestra. The Father plays our heart through the Holy Spirit, who loves to move us in the rhythm of Heaven! Everything sings to the tune of His heart."

"Worship enables us to both reclaim and then maintain our inner territory. It opens our heart and renews our mind in Jesus." "Sometimes you become so involved with majesty and the magnificence of Jesus, it creates this beautiful dependency because you want to throw yourself on somebody of that stature. You just want to bask in their presence!" "God loves walking with you. What He wants is for you to share His delight over you, pick up on it, and then give back to the Lord that same delight."

"God does not see what is wrong with us because He nailed all those things to the Cross (Colossians 2:14) and has no desire to resurrect them!" "Study the opposite of patience, and then study patience itself. One provides power that works for us, the other power against. "Take pleasure in everything. Take pleasure in everyone. Learn to see the good. Learn to see the joy. Learn to see the pleasure. Those are distinctive things that we need in our own life because they enlarge us on the inside." "It is virtually impossible to become Christlike when everything is going well. All our growth comes through learning. Life involves unrelenting learning. Every situation, problem, people difficulty and oppositional circumstance has something to teach us about God and ourselves." "God filled the world with His joy so His whole creation is joyful. Thats why sometimes when you look at a sunset theres just something that rises up within you like joy. You see an eagle flying and its like "oh man, thats brilliant!" Theres something in you that wants to applaud creation and the reason is because God stocked the whole of the Earth with delight. He put it in people, in situations...it's EVERYWHERE!"

"Everything comes to us because Christ is in us. Brilliant, it's like you can't lose! Just taking pleasure in being loved by Jesus, in being inhabited by Jesus...that's an OMG moment. 'Oh my goodness, I have Christ within?!' Sometimes we seem to forget." "You are a created being. God is still creating something on the inside of you and whats happening with all of us is we are waking up to majesty. When you wake up to His majesty, you wake up to all the delight that comes with it!" "When you choose delight as a lifestyle you enter into a place in the deepest passions of God for all people and all things. Honestly, my goal is to know love in such a powerful way that no one can affect me adversely." "If all your thinking has brought you to a place that you don't like, it's time for a better thought! Right now the Holy Spirit, your Helper, is standing next to you. Ask Him something!" "When our mind is renewed, it is because we have accepted that God has all the best thoughts and we want them too!" "It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live."

"Were learning about how to be in Christ, but the other side of that coin is we have to learn the power of Christ in us. Thats exponential. Thats where you cease to be yourself and you become the giant. You become the strong man in the area that affects a whole area to the purposes of God." "I think delight is a key. Its a huge, brilliant, amazing key that unlocks every situation and every persons heart." "Joy, rejoicing and THANKSGIVING are the means by which you will both access and appropriate God's desire." "God likes to be with us in different ways and the powerful thing about this is youre never going to get bored! Nothings ever going to be the same old routine. Its always going to be different, exciting, interesting, wonderful and brilliant!" "Maturity is knowing what needs are being met because of God's nature, and how to cultivate our inheritance because of our identity in Jesus. Start a conversation with God's goodness...and take some notes!"

"When we are moved by love our hearts vibrate to the sound of God's delight, and we too become delighted. It becomes our joy to delight ourselves in the Lord (Psalm 37:4)." "Doubt, mistrust, fear, anxiety, tension and apprehension are all constructs of being in the dark. Light is essential to this life in the Spirit; we fight the darkness best by remaining in the light. We are in Christ who is our light and life."

"True light exposes that which does not originate in Christ. When revelation occurs we must step into the light it brings and walk into newness of life. The darkness that has clung to us must be expelled along with all the negativity that it produced." "I think the biggest enemy in the church is not the devil. Its our own passivity to the majesty of the Lord Jesus. At some point the Good News becomes okay news and Christianity is no longer life changing but merely life enhancing, and Jesus doesnt change people into radicals anymore, just nice people. The church becomes dull, predictable, and monotonous. Heres the thing about dullness, what it means is weve lost our capacity to be simple before God. Weve lost the ability to live in wonder and astonishment." "Worship should always release you into a place of awe and wonder." "Everything in your life is about the power of the one with the One. You never walk around by yourself. You're always bigger than you can imagine!"

"We must recover delight as a way of life, and delight depends upon just getting a glimpse of the majesty of Jesus; just learning to be awestruck, astonished. Theres only one way to live this life and it is to be astonished!" "If youre easily offended the only thing it proves is that you dont yet have a good relationship with our Comforter, the Holy Spirit. Why be wounded by people when you can be healed? Its easier to get healed than it is to hold a grudge. You dont get any air miles for being wounded, offended, or bitter. You just get prevented from flying." "If someone tries to make you an enemy you should just say that you dont agree, but hey, you recognize their right to have an opinion but it isn't touching you because you actually know what it is to live in delight, and you know what? The delight of God is so huge it dwarfs any prejudiced opinion anyone might have of you!" "It doesnt matter what people say or do to me, my heart is set on love. Love is so great that it sets you on a level way above all differences, prejudices, judgments and nonsense!" "How do you love when love is not returned? The simple truth is that real love doesn't seek a return. Love loves for the sake of loving." "Delight is a lifestyle that the Lord really wants us to develop. It is the key that opens up your life to God."

"I like problems because every problem comes with a promise and a provision. Were learning to turn our back on the problem, take hold of the promise, and step into a provision. Its training for reigning!" "Dullness is the absence of brightness in our soul. People have lost that sparkle and that joy. Sometimes I think that sin is not necessarily immorality or selfishness. Sometimes it just means we live drab, colorless, stale and unimaginative lives before God."

"When you are captured and captivated by the love of Jesus you automatically start thinking the way He thinks. You learn the process of turning something negative into something positive, and if you practice that process eventually you rise at a place where you dont need the process, you just do it automatically." "One person walking with God is always in the majority. ALWAYS."

"Im excited about who I am right now and Im excited about who Im becoming in this next time frame. So Im going to be excited about every situation that occurs between me and my outcome because every one of them is designed to help me become the man that God wants me to be. How can I not be delighted about that?!" "Were being made in the image of God. That means that something majestic has to happen in your life if youre going to represent the fullness of Jesus." "You cannot be a son or a daughter of God, a citizen of Heaven representing the kingdom, and have a mindset thats drawn from the world around you. Were citizens of Heaven. We do not take our cues from the world around us. We are representatives of a dimension so incredible it takes us to a whole new place of doing life!" "How can I not be delighted about the process of life, stepping into every situation knowing that God is with me?!" "Everything is useful in the Kingdom. Everything is useful for our development."

"There is a power in delight that releases everything in your path. You can completely debilitate the enemy by having a sense of wonder because he cant intimidate you, he cant make you fearful, and you change everything hes doing just by being there. Sometimes you dont even have to say anything; just you being in a room changes the atmosphere." "The only true safe place is in the heart and affection of God. He loves worship and trust as a lifestyle. He adores one step at a time, relational focus. He wants us to experience Him on the journey." "When your calling, dream or vision comes under threat, that can often be the signal to ask God for more! When the vision is undergoing a contraction, ask for an expansion!" "The best way to start developing delight is to become delighted with Jesus. See where it takes you, ok? Itll be so exciting, and you will hear God in ways youve never heard Him before!"

"When God grants something it is the end of supplication and the beginning of proclamation. We rejoice that we have received and we believe that what has been granted is now our possession. We take God for granted and He loves it! It gives Him pleasure to see us depending on His goodness in such a powerful way."

"We ask God to open a window in Heaven and pour out a blessing. This sounds spiritual until we understand that Jesus IS the door that has been open in Heaven for 2,000 years." "When you focus on delight, you connect with His passion for you. Youll see things youve never seen before. Youll find yourself saying and doing things that you never thought were possible." "If you really delight in yourself in God, He will give you desires for things and then He will support you and resource you in those things. Your journey will become different and your story will change, maybe from a tragedy to a comedy!" c "Thanksgiving is not causal; its really intentional. You give thanks until you become thanks, yeah? That's when everything changes and your whole internal atmosphere changes."

"Life in Christ has radiance so bright that all the dark shadows of negativity become sunspots of brilliance. Our ministry is to learn the beauty of exchange, firstly for ourselves, then to apply those truths to others so that they can be set free." "List every negative against you. What is the opposite? Make a second list of opposites and destroy the first list. You now have a record of all that God is relentlessly doing in your life. Enjoy this process; it will turn you into another person!" "Do not confront a negative directly. Find the opposite thought and cultivate the anointing that goes with it. This is your opportunity to move in the opposite spirit."

"We have all been affected by the world, the flesh and the devil in the areas of our thinking, feeling, and willing, and all those areas are going to be recovered. Thats why its important that you understand who God is for you, and you understand what He is recovering in you in any particular situation." "You live your life on a battlefield between God on the one side and the devil on the other. You dont want to be helping the enemy, so fear, anxiety, panic, doubt: they all help the enemy against you. What were learning is trust, thanksgiving, rejoicing, and believing simply that God is good and thats the end of it." "The presence of God does not depend upon an emotion; it only depends on a trust. He said Hed never leave you; honestly, that should be enough." "You have the presence of God whether you feel it or not. There are going to be great, fabulous, glorious days when you will feel it because God is tangible and He loves to be tangible. But youre going to have great, marvelous, wonderful days when youll have to trust that Hes there, and not trust on your emotions or your own understanding, but just have that simple place in your heart, God said it; I believe it; that jolly well settles it. Hes here. Hes here because He said He would be. And that has to be enough. Its always going to be enough."

"Peace comes from within. You cant try and bring peace into your life. You cant think your way into peace. It rises up on the inside of you and thats why rest never comes by itself; itll come with rejoicing, itll come with thanksgiving. Jesus is in rest and were learning to relax in Him." "Jesus said, I am gentle and humble. Those are the two characteristics that always cause us to walk in victory, because theyre the two characteristics the enemy can never possess. "Conventional thinking always tries to turn an intuition into an acquired rational deduction. When that happens all the anointing drains out of the moment. We must understand that the development of trust into faith is most crucial to the Father." "The enemy is destined to misunderstand God's ultimate purpose. His own darkness is so pervasive he will continually misinterpret events and miss the point of what God is doing. If he had known the purpose of Christ in redemption, he would have chopped down every tree in Israel!"

"The enemy's darkness is so pervasive that he will continually misinterpret events and miss the point of what God is doing. He seeks to make us vulnerable to that which he is subject misapprehension. The enemy wants to develop blindness in us so that we are in the dark about the purposes of God towards us. We are in Christ who is our light and life. We fight the darkness best by remaining in the light." "The Holy Spirit will always make Jesus our focal point for response. In Christ, the enemy is never allowed to determine our focus." "It should not matter how much the enemy spins us around in life situations. Christ is the center of who we are, which means we have a fixed point to which we always return." "God has taken up residence inside us, thats the reality that you need to deal with. Dont make things on the outside your reality; make the things inside of you your reality. Whats in your heart should be the most real thing to you because you can overcome anything out there from the place of who you are in here." "Rest is a weapon that can do damage to the work of the enemy, and its a weapon thats going to do damage to your own inherent negativity. Weve all grown up with a negative view of ourselves, and what were learning in the Kingdom is the view that God has of us and were replacing our negativity with that one. I want to think of myself the way God thinks about me!"

"We are all going to have some enemies that teach us how to love. We are all going to have some human opposition to teach us how to be gracious and kind and merciful. Those people never come around at a time when its convenient to you, but if youre practicing joy and rejoicing you can sense the gift in everything!" "Your negativity creates obstacles in front of you most of the time. In Christ you dont have to think or behave like that. As believers, all the rules are different. We should be living by the rules of Heaven!" "The thing I like about rest is it gives me a breathing space where I can gather myself. I can step back. You dont have to react to externals; you have to respond to an internal." "Rest gives you a capacity to be focused. When you have no rest, you are available, your heart falters, you have doubt, you have dread, you have no assurance, and then youre in the territory where youre saying, Ill be glad when this is over", so youre postponing your own joy! The whole point of life in the Spirit is you can be glad now no matter whats going on!" "We should have too much passion in the Holy Spirit for us ever to be stuck in a negative place!"

"Stress is not caused by what other people are doing or by circumstances. Stress is caused by the way that you think about and approach those circumstances. When you're tempted to worry and be fearful and so on, peace within is the antidote." "The Holy Spirit is taking the righteousness of Jesus and applying it to you every single opportunity He can. God isnt dealing with your sin; Hes dealt with it. Hes dealing with your righteousness." "Theres a place set aside for you in God where you get to make the enemy tired and weary. He becomes depressed by your joy. He becomes discouraged by your grace. He becomes paranoid about your peace. You make the enemy tired, weary, depressed, and requiring therapy." "Your body is subject to pressure and stress and all that kind of thing, but the inner man of your spirit is never under pressure except from goodness, because your inner man of the spirit lives in the shadow of almighty God." "If you love the power of God more than the presence of God, you are a shipwreck waiting to happen." "There are too many people out there right now moving in

power, but behaving nothing like who Jesus is, and that ship is just going to crash on the rocks at some point. Love His presence and youll always have power in the thing that God has called you to do." "A people without inheritance have no substance. For people to grow properly we must first change the atmosphere and then create a new environment that produces people of quality, not just quantity."

"Dreaming opens up your faith. It opens up your perceptions. You get to see something larger than you and you get to feel good about all of that. You get to see something of the bigness of God and when you see the bigness of God, you dont see how small you are; you see how big you can be!" "How do we make the Body of Christ reflect the glorious nature of God? We equip every believer for service and to do work of the ministry. There should be no superstars or ministry elite in the Body of Christ."

"Its very important to know where the line is between faith and presumption. Go and stand as close to that line as possible. Some of us are so scared of being presumptuous that the place where were occupying is really a place of unbelief. Theres territory in, around and in front of you that belongs to you but youre not occupying it because youre scared of making a mistake. God is not worried about your presumption. Hes concerned about your unbelief." "If we do not progress into a place of astonishment and awe and reverence of God, we are going to be intimidated by life around us. Were going to be intimidated by what the enemy is doing. Your intimacy with God should be the most intimidating thing about you!" "When people and circumstances change, we must move from the point of familiarity to a place of inconvenience. Our previous comfort zone becomes a place of restriction."

"If Jesus cannot give you a sense of awe and wonder, you're probably not saved. You are designed to travel with majesty that makes you feel astonished at who He is and what's happening in your life. That is our true nature in Jesus." "Our God is a God of principle. His nature is unchanging, no matter what occurs. He has core values from which He operates that provide radiant confidence to all who know Him and walk with Him." "We cannot take ground from the enemy if he has ground in us. Cleaning and clearing our own house is a vital part of our own self control and personal discipline." "God works in us and through us, and it is important that we know the difference, otherwise we project our own development needs onto others. "Don't get so hung up on your destination that you fail to enjoy the journey." "When God is teaching us trust hes actually teaching us how to kill off anxiety, fear, panic and worry. You cant trust the Lord and be anxious. They cant exist in the same space at the same time. One of them has to go, and you get to choose!"

"To rest in God's power when your own weaknesses seem to be screaming at you? That's grace! To be confident in who God is for you when you feel overwhelmed by odds against you? That's peace! To stand alone against massive intimidation? That's trust! To know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God is bigger, and therefore you cannot lose? That's the faith that moves mountains!" "If you want to hear the voice of the Lord, its important to get into a place of rejoicing. When you really rejoice, everything in you opens up and you can hear more clearly." "When we do something for the first time, we inevitably learn how not to do it. Our first mistakes in a new process are more about learning than the error. Failure to learn is the only real mistake we can make when doing something for the first time."

"Accountability is about character development learning to love the truth, learning to precede truth with grace and to follow it with mercy while enshrining it with love, patience, and kindness." "Were traveling with the presence of who Jesus is. If God is changing us from glory to glory, all change is glorious. Why not make this process of change happy and fortunate and glorious? Why not make it a brilliant opportunity?" "Our provision on the earth comes from our connection to the throne, not from our connections in the natural. If you receive anything from your connections in the natural, its because God motivated them to do something!" "The church is a living, creative, experimental experience between people and their God. That experience will lead us to discover Him and what He has given to each of us."

"God wants to increase the level of your smiling and your laughter. The blessing in Numbers 6 about the presence of God says that He lifts up the light of His countenance upon you. Thats the best description of a smile that Ive ever heard!"
God

is vague about organization structure, but profound about life and relationships. Get together, support one another, and create! Give each other freedom to love and

relate! Be significant and develop your own relational order to facilitate further exploration and discovery. "If we find it easy to be cynical, we have already traveled a long way down the road of negative thinking." "Sometimes you travel with tears, sometimes with laughter, and sometimes with a bit of both. Some transitions are not meant to be easy but theyre meant to break something that needs to be broken. God is going to break you and put you back together, then break you and put you back together. Each time He puts you back together youre going to be bigger. I dont know how He does it. Its a work of genius." "What would it take for us to live a life of supreme confidence in God - where in His great love for us we could not fail, just simply learn to be better next time; a time where the enemy has no power to deceive us because we have left immaturity far behind?" "Transition is about forsaking sin and abandoning oneself to the cause of God. It is about our sacrifice and His glory.

"Transition is a place between promise and fulfillment where we are tested to see if we can inhabit the place that God wants to give us." "Jesus did not just die for you, He died AS you. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, You are a new creation, all the old is passed away. Everything has become new and all those new things are of God. That is a fact, and it is also a promise." "Total balance is a myth. The only time we are completely balanced is when we stand still. We cannot stand still! Spiritual balance is about the movement of obedience and the distribution of faith between vision and sacrifice as we move together." "Character under stress is invaluable. In situations containing great potential for unrighteous behavior, make note of the people who behave like Jesus."
Most

trials and tests are teaching us more than one thing. Every circumstance provides an opportunity for Christlike behavior to emerge. Those who understand and practice this become good at passing tests and are able to grow quickly and properly.

"Every step we take towards God is an offensive act against the enemy!" "Real prayer is preceded and followed by a celebration of who God is for you." "That which is hidden has a greater power of revelation than that which is obvious. It is the digging for truth that opens our heart to it, not merely picking it up off the ground."

"When things are working well, we rejoice. By contrast then, our blessed state in one area highlights a pressing need in a particular part of our life that needs attention. In this way, our blessings highlight our needs." "All revelation of God must result in us seeing His glory and being dazzled by His radiance. Our relationship with God is always extrovert. No matter our personality type, we are called at some point to shout, sing aloud, rejoice, dance and declare enthusiastically who He is for us. Worship has a loud voice!" "Frustration exists to highlight where and how the Lord wants to change you. It can either be the spark of life that creates a new dimension or the detonation of all that we hold dear. Be careful not to snuff out that spark, but nurture it properly." "Working with frustration is the key in turning our potential into something actual. Most people are frustrated because they care about something. However, we must allow the Holy Spirit to direct that frustration into something meaningful." "When the Lord seeks to move us into a new realm, He looks for us to have an increase of vision, anointing, and power. Along with that, there needs to come an increase of commitment and character."

"Human opposition is designed by God to bring us into grace, while demonic opposition brings us into greater power, by standing in the authority and power of the Lord. All opposition is designed for our benefit." "Faith and caution are not in opposition. They are compatible soul mates - opposites attracted to the same God. Without caution, faith will not have the strategy to overcome obstacles. Faith believes it can run a marathon and cant wait to start running. Caution knows how to run a marathon so that faith doesnt run out of steam."

"People sometimes pray as if they are begging God to do them a favor. They forget that He always sees the end from the beginning. He knows all things! The God who knows our journey better than we do has strategically placed a provision next to every problem, obstacle and opposition - human and demonic. This is called FAVOR." "A church thats totally focused on the old nature can only see sins, faults and wrong behaviors in people. All it can produce is a negative mindset that can only produce a negative outcome. It deals with problems, not solutions. It creates a religious spirit that makes God in its image so that it can release anger and judgment, but also withholds all the things that God actually wants to release and wants to be for people. We must focus on THE NEW!" "If we can learn to see the good in all things, our perspective will be filled with more faith than negativity." "The enemys agenda is the destruction of all that we hold dear at this present time. Gods agenda is life, the realization of the vision, and the entrance into a deeper anointing and a more powerful spiritual dimension." "Make sure that it's not just His power but the presence of God that is your priority." "There is a time when youve got to stop praying about your needs, and start standing and walking in your inheritance."

"We fight from victory, not towards it. Therefore, we are never staring defeat in the face; the enemy is, when he looks at us!" "We cannot build a church without covenant friendships with God and man. We must drop the morality of the world and go for something deeper, better, and more profound in our relationships."
Prophecy

talks about the possibility, not the inevitability of fulfillment. All personal prophecy is conditional upon our response and our hunger for personal growth and transformation.

"Focusing on behaviors and issues that God has already dealt with in Christ is not Biblebelieving. Romans 6:11 says Consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God. We should all focus on what God is actually saying about us NOW, because all the old ways are passed away and everything has become new." "We cannot allow the enemy to pickpocket our confidence in Christ. We must not throw it away; we need to keep a firm grip on it at all times. Confidence must become our great ally. Endurance must be our best friend."

"Every one of us in the church has the capacity to prophesy. We can be a prophetic statement of what the Kingdom of Heaven is-- showing people what Christ is really like--by our lifestyle, our actions, our thoughts and our identity. We're a prophetic voice of who God is, how He speaks, and what He's doing on the earth. We cannot help but be prophetic; it is in our very bones.

"A right relationship with God is the key to moving forward. Everything in Christ is "yes and amen" (2 Corinthians 1:20). Therefore, the Lord does not have to speak all the time about everything. The will of God is first relational; as we abide, we become sensitive to His heart." "We must know the relational difference between moving in the power of the love of God instead of just having a love for the power of God."

"When we are not sensitized to the nature of God in Christ, we are more likely to become super spiritual, overly intense and religious in life. This is a disconnect between God's heart and our mouths." "Surrender to His life and He becomes the Living Word in your spirit and soul. You will be wonderfully impacted by His presence spiritually, emotionally, physically and mentally. Your whole person is affected by His Whole Person!" "Life in Christ cannot cease to be abundant simply because the world is having a hard time. "On Earth as it is in Heaven," is not only the Lord's Prayer, but also our testimony." "You enter God's presence by His permission, not your performance. Look to Him and He will accelerate you." "Gods indulgence is where we learn to enjoy the pleasure of His favor; that He would become intimately involved in placing particular favor on our lives. He intends to satisfy a desire in His heart to bestow blessing that is significantly above and beyond our ability to even conceive of it."

"Non-negotiable love is being the best expression of Christ to another human being. Putting love first and last in every situation keeps us in the abiding Presence of God." "When we give ourselves to a full relationship with God, His will becomes crystal clear. We never have to ask for a word of guidance again. Instead, it will flow to us out of the largeness of His love for us." "We can be assured that God will always show up and talk to us. We can rely on Him, live in His rest and peace and adore His nature. We can be humbled by our weakness and captivated by His strength." "If youve got a problem with people, the solution to that problem is that you see them the way God sees them and that you deal with them in the way that He would want to deal with them Himself, which is joyfully, righteously, lovingly, graciously. Call people up, dont call people out!" "We are a work in progress. No one condemns the artist of an unfinished picture. Instead we look at what is there and we picture what it could become. We wonder, we imagine and we are excited by the possibilities!"

"Every circumstance comes with an upgrade. What if Heaven has placed resources in the worst possible places in our communities? What if theyre there waiting for someone to step into that place and claim them? There have to be miracles in the places of deprivation because that was the mission statement of Jesus in Isaiah 61." "Whenever we see or hear a ministry moving in anger, judgment, or negativity we are observing a person whose own life has not been upgraded by love. Something is missing."
Truth

is not just about being right, but also about doing right. Truth given without compassion and love may destroy someones world. This is your opportunity to win someones heart to a greater love in Christ. When acceptance and truth combine with loving kindness, people are made whole. "Everyone wants to be loved, to belong and to be significant. Anybody you meet, it doesnt matter if theyre a complete stranger or not, you can say something that will make their day. Just stay in the practice of making peoples day and youll have your own day made for you!" "Goodness is the fertile ground in which our prayers bear fruit. Goodness is the seedbed for miracles to grow our trust and faith. He overcomes evil with good (Romans 12:21)."

"Love God too much to be worried about making a mistake!" "God has places He wants to take us; He has a role in the Kingdom that only we can fill. God wants to commit each of us to outrageous adventures that, without Him, would scare the life out of us. With Him, it's fun!" "We have no business seeing problems and difficulties or looking at peoples behavior. We are learning how to see with the eyes of the Father. We are seeing how to look through Jesus as the lens of Gods goodness in our life. Were learning to see peoples identity."

"If all you ever do is attack someone's behavior then youre never going to be able to set them free to become who they really are. Accountability is not calling somebody out on their behavior, it is calling them up to their identity!" "Rain comes down and waters the Earth before returning to the sky in the process of evaporation. Likewise, spiritual things come from God, touch the Earth and return back to Him. His word comes out of His heart, accomplishes what He wants and then returns to Him in a different form through confession, worship, prayer, proclamation and declaration. We are an integral part of this process." "The measure of a man or woman is not how much it takes to make them happy...but how little." "Contentment is the outward expression of an inward glory. Choosing not to worry is actually an act of worship. We cast all our burdens onto Him because we trust His great heart toward us." "Everyones on a journey. Everyones on a path and down that pathway there are problems. There are provisions. There are battles. There are victories. Theres a positive attached to every single negative that youre ever going to meet. Our role as Kingdom people is picking up the positives and using them to overwhelm the negatives."

"Our inheritance is not given when we go to Heaven in the afterlife. We are not eternal the moment we die. We are eternal the moment we believe. Eternal life is NOW." "God is love, and the nature of that love must be the driving force behind everything that we do or attempt."

"Every situation, good or bad, makes a withdrawal on our identity. We demonstrate our Christ-likeness or our carnality. There is no one else to blame for this since we are in charge of who we are and how we show up." "We didnt think our way into the Gospel. We didnt think our way into salvation. We felt our way into an experience because God touched our hearts. He created a longing in our heart and we found our heart responding to Him." "We forget sometimes that the Father is a believer too! He loves to believe in us. He has faith in His own abilities in and through us." "Your present-future has been decided. Its been determined in God's heart and in His permission. You have permission to come. You have permission to be. You have permission to be radically loved. "It is impossible to grow relationships when living in an atmosphere of disapproval. Believing the best about people is not about ignoring their faults but about recognizing that everyone wants to change and become like Jesus. We are always a work in progress and therefore deserving of mercy, grace and love." "Why would you not want to think like Jesus? Why would you even want to have a choice of thinking on a natural level when you could think with the mind of Christ?"

It

is my prayer that Christians would become the family, the company of friends that God desires us to be. If our friendships are continually strengthened and stand the test of time, we will become an enigma in the Earth. People will look at us and marvel!

"Failure to develop a lifestyle of celebration means that we become casual about rejoicing and thanksgiving. It often leads people into living in their circumstances rather than in relationship with Christ. Such people live off the anointing of other people, and that shows great immaturity." "The prophetic empowers us to stir up the gifts that are within us. Prophecy can pinpoint where the provision is when problems show up on our radar. Prophecy provides faith because it reveals the outcome that God has declared will be present for us." "We speak the truth of our new nature in order to inspire people to grow up in Jesus. We do not speak what is true of the old nature that God has already declared dead in Christ! A fountain cannot pour out sweet water and bitter (James 3:11)." "You are the Beloved of God. He has set His heart and affection on you, so rest in His desire for you. Accept His benevolence."

"God longs for us to be wholehearted in our love for Him, and in our love for one another. He does not want us to sit back and withhold ourselves. He longs for us to enter relationships that honor and worship Him. When we live in unity, God can bring us into a deeper existence in the realm of the Spirit." "It is important to face everything with courage, otherwise circumstances will intimidate us into giving up and not pressing through. Confident people go out to meet life rather than waiting for it to come to them." "Timing and preparation are key elements in the fulfilling of God's Word. When He speaks through Scripture and prophecy, a new place is opened up to us in the grace of Jesus. We are being introduced to the next version of ourselves in Christ!" "People come seeking prophecy because they don't know God's will and they want a shortcut to help find it. A prophecy cannot accomplish that. Instead we need to work to reestablish and restore the dignity of their relationship with God. Christians must learn to wait on God for relationship, not guidance. If we seek His face first, everything else will fall into place." "Champions are not made in the ring. They are only recognized there." "To walk with God in the Spirit, you need to get excited about

yourself. You need to live with a sense of joy and wonder. You owe it to Jesus to have a sense of wonder about Him and a sense of wonder about yourself. Those two things are going to collide in your heart!" "The church is a prophetic community in that we are in the present with God anticipating the future. Our focus is out there where our destiny is, where our promises are, and we're learning how to walk out into the future."

"If we love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, then we must trust Him in the same way. At the very least, that means we must banish negativity in our minds and hearts." "Only people who are strong, solid in their relationship with the Father, firm in their faith, and with an appropriate intensity in the Spirit, can have the potency to force a breakthrough against the odds."
The

law of life in Christ Jesus is that love is the more excellent way. Everything must be done in love, through love, and because of love.

"Luke 6:38 says "Give and it will be given to you". Being a contribution to everyone you meet means that you attract blessing and favor constantly. You will always be blessed, encouraged and favored. It's a no-brainer!"
The

Father has designed our path in advance [Romans 8:29-30]. We are learning to live an intentional life within that plan. When we know our identity, destiny and calling, we then discover the faith, character and lifestyle we must pursue as citizens of Heaven on Earth.

"Youre the one that God wants to walk the streets and look around. You and your company, your group, walk the streets where you live and work, look around, see whats happening. We must see the world as belonging to the Lord and our role is to evict the enemy in the place that we live. Evict the enemy and call down the resources of Heaven into that community!" "Leadership with partnership is a powerful paradox. Without creating a sense of togetherness, our leadership can sometimes be overly authoritative to the point of bullying. It never works. It can produce acquiescence, but never wholeness."
A

partnership is a joint approach, an undertaking for a specific purpose. Good leadership supports the partnership that creates internal change.

"You cannot lose God's presence - only the consciousness of it, and that is easy to regain. Come then, and relax in His love!" "There is a huge difference between that which is true about a person's sin habits and that which is the Truth about their new nature in Christ. The Truth is a person: Jesus Christ. Therefore everything we say to people should emphatically upgrade their relationship with the Lord Jesus so that they are growing up into everything that He is for them. Truth empowers us to become like Jesus." "God is very confident in Himself; He never doubts anything He is doing. It is this confidence that He seeks to build into the people He touches with His grace."
Be

of good cheer! You are the living embodiment of Glad Tidings of Great Joy. You must find your happiness from Christ within.

"Getting your needs met is the baby end of life in Christ. If youre in ministry for twenty years and youre still praying for your provisions and your needs, there is something wrong with the dynamic of your relationship with God. We are growing from glory into glory. We are growing from measure into fullness. The more mature we become, the more God wants to give us our inheritance."

"When we get to Heaven and stand before the Lord, Hes not going to be judging us on sin because Hes already judged Jesus. He will ask if we received everything He wanted us to have. Do you want to become what God most wants you to become? Then you cannot come praying like a baby when He wants you to pray like a son. You cannot come praying like a widow when He wants you to pray like a bride." "What do you want to be when you grow up in Jesus? What do you want to be known for in the Kingdom? The characteristics of your choices are cultivated through your intentional cooperation with the Lord TODAY!" "There is only a narrow gap between giving advice and taking control. Resist the urge to fix your friend's life. Rather walk with them in it and enable them to reach their own conclusions. In most relationships, we should walk in grace before truth. That way, we hold on to people as they are trying to 'get it'. We don't force-feed answers because people do not grow up in that context."

"The whole world has been reconciled to God. It doesnt mean they are saved. It means they have a really good chance. Its like when you get a credit card through the mail. All the benefits of that card belong to you but you cant activate them until you get in touch with the benefactor behind the card and register. Thats what reconciliation is. We are saying to people that all the benefits of Heaven are available to you and we are here to connect you with the creator so that you can find Him and discover Him!"

"Leadership is not about living separately from the people. Platforms, titles, all that kind of stuff, positions - theyre irrelevant in many ways. When it all comes down to it, were all children of God learning how to walk with Him. I like getting involved in peoples lives. Its thrilling. Everyone has a story and a journey. Good leadership is about stepping off a platform into someones story!"
Meekness

is not weakness; it is strength under

control. "When we elevate a negative above a positive, we discourage and demoralize. We beat down people's perception and dampen faith. People then focus on sin rather than righteousness, and what we focus on, we become. Inspiration never inhibits; it sets people free to discover the radiant nature of God and be transformed." "Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature." "The peace of God that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7) is what guards our hearts and minds. Peace does not come because we understand something. It is present before our awareness is complete. Peace upgrades our perception, not vice versa."

"A poverty spirit tells you that you cant win. Its fixed on recession. A poverty spirit tells you, "you cant do anything about this", but God works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. The real issue is what is God saying to you as an individual. There is no longer any opportunity for any one of us to go through each day blind. Look around you. See what needs to be done, even if its just for one person, and step into it!" "Difficult people are our shortcut to becoming Christ-like! They present us with a brilliant opportunity to practice love." "No one else can make us prejudiced. That is our own responsibility. The actions of others should have no bearing upon our responses. We do the right thing regardless of people and circumstances because we want to live the right way before God."