Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working Quotes
Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.
Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God?
If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.
Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.
She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.
He puts us here to make an eternal difference.He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He loves them.He puts us here to be His hands and feet, His body and His heart.
Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?
Where your money goes, there your heart follows.
When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both.
You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.
Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.
If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.
But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To talk to Him. To worship and praise Him. To fellowship with other brothers and sisters.
Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change the way you think.
Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.
In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't do that. It's not normal.
Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
Normal people attempt countless goals with limited success. Weird people focus on just one God-given objective with tremendous results.
When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most people will respect us even if they don't share our faith.
Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.
Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others.
No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.
You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.
Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.
So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.
I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.
We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.
Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.
You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.
If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God.
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.
If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.
We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.
If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV.
Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.
My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.