Bill Johnson Quotes

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

What is the will of God? On earth as it is in heaven. If it doesn’t exist there, it’s not supposed to exist here. If it does exist there, it’s supposed to exist here.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.

There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

Jesus didn't accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

The most simple way to stay encouraged is to feed your heart on what He is doing, not on what He hasn't done. If you can't see what He is doing, feed on what He has done in the past.

God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

We owe the world an encounter with God