Steven Furtick famous quotes

The voice you believe will determine the future you experience
-- Steven Furtick

#Believe #Voice #Determine

Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.
-- Steven Furtick

#Moving #Simple #Obedience

I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.
-- Steven Furtick

#Prove

If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips
-- Steven Furtick

#Life Changing #Lips #Want

It shouldn't freak you out to realize that God's eyes are on you. Because He doesn't see you through eyes of disapproval or disappointment. His presence is not a sign of condemnation. It's actually an invitation. God is present with you, through His Holy Spirit, because He intends to uproot you from the tyranny of the familiar, shatter the monotonous life you've had. And take you on an adventure.
-- Steven Furtick

#Disappointment #Adventure #Eye

One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?
-- Steven Furtick

#Focus #Enemy #Wish

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
-- Steven Furtick

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Jesus will always move away from religious drama and toward the needs of people who are hurting. Jesus will always go out of his way to find and minister to people who others will go out of their way to avoid. I love him for that.
-- Steven Furtick

#Religious #Hurt #Jesus

The death of contentment is comparison.
-- Steven Furtick

#Contentment #Comparison

My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.
-- Steven Furtick

#Joy #Determined #Christ

Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.
-- Steven Furtick

#Regret #Language #Sin

Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise.
-- Steven Furtick

#Regret #Today #Tomorrow

I dont believe God's called me to survive the world but to change it for His glory.
-- Steven Furtick

#Believe #World #Glory

Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance.
-- Steven Furtick

#Calling #Circumstances

Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you're not really praying. You're just pontificating. You do the natural. Trust God for the super.
-- Steven Furtick

#Prayer #Needs #Action

When your perspective is preloaded with the Word of God, lies lose their power over your life.
-- Steven Furtick

#Lying #Perspective #Over You

You can't fulfill your calling in your comfort zone!
-- Steven Furtick

#Calling #Comfort #Comfort Zone

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.
-- Steven Furtick

#Thanksgiving #Gratitude #Entitlement

Every heart has an atmosphere. What is the atmosphere of your heart? Nothing good develops in an atmosphere of anxiety
-- Steven Furtick

#Heart #Anxiety #Atmosphere

God guarantees that His Word will not return void. He doesn't guarantee that the return will be immediate. Keep sowing!
-- Steven Furtick

#Void #Return #Sowing

If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.
-- Steven Furtick

#Expectations #Able #Mets

What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.
-- Steven Furtick

#Father #Thinking #What Matters

Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.
-- Steven Furtick

#War #Mean #Winning

When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.
-- Steven Furtick

#Quality #Builder

If the size of your vision for your life isn't intimidating to you, there's a good chance it's insulting to God.
-- Steven Furtick

#Vision #Insulting #Size

Being brave doesn’t mean we have no fear - it means we refuse to be overcome by it.
-- Steven Furtick

#Mean #Brave #Overcoming

You can't make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.
-- Steven Furtick

#Moving #Rooms

Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.
-- Steven Furtick

#Prayer #Arena #Ability

God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.
-- Steven Furtick

#Destiny #Order #Giving

Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.
-- Steven Furtick

#People #Raw Materials #Levels

Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.
-- Steven Furtick

#Moving #Ordinary #Obedience

Accomplishing the impossible is all about seeing the invisible.
-- Steven Furtick

#Impossible #Invisible

God cannot bless who you pretend to be
-- Steven Furtick

#Bless

I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.
-- Steven Furtick

#Kids #World

True ministry isn't just 'cut and paste,' it has to be birthed from the inside out.
-- Steven Furtick

#Cutting #Ministry #Worship

You do the natural. Trust God for the super.
-- Steven Furtick

#Trust In God #Natural

God will arrange every experience in your life to serve His purpose.
-- Steven Furtick

#Purpose #Gods Will

Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas...it might look real good but it will get you no where.
-- Steven Furtick

#Real #Looks #Might

Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.
-- Steven Furtick

#Journey #Mirages #Destination

True creativity is fresh, but not always original.
-- Steven Furtick

#Creativity

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'
-- Steven Furtick

#Believe #Promise #Audacity

If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.
-- Steven Furtick

#Audacity #Ability

If your problem is too big for you, it’s just the right size for God.
-- Steven Furtick

#Size #Problem #Bigs

You have a personal birthright to believe in a God-given mission for your life.
-- Steven Furtick

#Believe #Missions #Given

Faith is knowing who God is and acting accordingly... God fights when we move.
-- Steven Furtick

#Moving #Fighting #Knowing

The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.
-- Steven Furtick

#People #Useless #Might

Most believers aren't in imminent danger of ruining their lives. They're facing a danger that's far greater: wasting them.
-- Steven Furtick

#Danger #Believer

Heaven answers my 'I can't' with a resounding 'He did'.
-- Steven Furtick

#Heaven #Answers

Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.
-- Steven Furtick

#Victory #Cost #May

The goal of faith isn't to take away your fears but to leverage those fears to create bolder belief. Faith leads you past your fears and reassures you of God's presence. And after a while, you begin to trust that God is going to lift you above the waves this time just like he did last time.
-- Steven Furtick

#Past #Goal #Lasts

You cannot endure what you never enjoy!
-- Steven Furtick

#Enjoy #Endure

Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.
-- Steven Furtick

#Mean #Acceptance #Trying

The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!
-- Steven Furtick

#Sun #Christ #Graves

The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.
-- Steven Furtick

#Approval #Purpose #Standards

And even when you can’t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.
-- Steven Furtick

#Together #Identity #Matter

Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.
-- Steven Furtick

#People #Good Enough #Enough

The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you’re currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace.
-- Steven Furtick

#Fighting #Past #Reality

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.
-- Steven Furtick

#Opportunity #Waiting #Want

God sets boundaries before He gives blessing.
-- Steven Furtick

#Blessing #Giving #Boundaries

When God demands more of you, it's because He sees more IN you
-- Steven Furtick

#Demand

Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from calling your name and setting you apart. He placed you on the earth at a certain time for a pre-decided purpose.
-- Steven Furtick

#Names #Calling #Earth

The faith to step out is worthless without the faithfulness to stick it out.
-- Steven Furtick

#Sticks #Steps #Faithfulness

If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.
-- Steven Furtick

#Christian #Believe #Sleep

Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.
-- Steven Furtick

#Opportunity #Prove #Presence Of God

Did you know it's possible to have the right passion, but have the wrong expression of the right passion?
-- Steven Furtick

#Passion #Expression

His Spirit speaks with promptings that are not audible—often they are much louder than that—always in perfect harmony with the Scriptures and always resounding with perfect wisdom.
-- Steven Furtick

#Perfect #Scripture #Spirit

We're comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else's highlight reel.
-- Steven Furtick

#Behind The Scenes #Compare #Highlights

We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of Bible studies because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't teach doctrine because it gets in the way of evangelism. If you want to be fed God's word or have the Bible explained to you then you are a fat lazy Christian and you need to shut up and get to work or you need to leave this church because we ONLY do evangelism.
-- Steven Furtick

#Christian #Book #Lazy

You must follow Jesus for yourself, but you can’t follow Him by yourself.
-- Steven Furtick

#Jesus

Nothing gets stronger without resistance.
-- Steven Furtick

#Stronger #Resistance

Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!
-- Steven Furtick

#Responsibility #Outcomes #Obedience

It is the experience of love that enables us to change.
-- Steven Furtick

Most of the time, it's not until we embrace our limitations that God can start to use us beyond our limitations.
-- Steven Furtick

#Use #Embrace #Limitation

When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime.
-- Steven Furtick

#Integrity #Dark #Shadow

We thank Him for everything before we ask Him for anything!
-- Steven Furtick

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He'll make your box bigger.
-- Steven Furtick

#Frustration #Waiting #Innovation

You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.
-- Steven Furtick

#Monday #Voice #Waiting

Failure isn't final until you quit!!
-- Steven Furtick

#Finals #Quitting

Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision.
-- Steven Furtick

#Love Is #Decision #Feelings

The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.
-- Steven Furtick

#Differences #Vision #Audacity

The next time you lose your momentum in daily life as you're chasing after God's best for you, don't give up and conclude that it's over. The greater life hasn't ended for you. It's only out of sight under the waters of the ordinary. And God can resurface it, supernaturally, as many times as it takes. As many times as you're willing.
-- Steven Furtick

#Giving Up #Sight

Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.
-- Steven Furtick

#Adversity #Perspective #Problem

You can't be grateful for something you feel entitled to.
-- Steven Furtick

#Grateful #Be Grateful #Feels

Seize God’s vision. Activate your faith. Make your move.
-- Steven Furtick

#Moving #Vision

Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.
-- Steven Furtick

#Struggle #Opportunity #Wish

In Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.
-- Steven Furtick

#Matter #Christ #Who You Are