In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

Bill Johnson

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

Bill Johnson

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

Bill Johnson

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

Bill Johnson

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

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When you're willing to do what you're unqualified to do, that's what qualifies you.

Bill Johnson

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Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford 'form without power,' for it creates Christians without purpose.

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

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

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

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People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones who thrill the heart of God, become the targets of those who never fail because they seldom try.

Bill Johnson

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I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

Bill Johnson

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

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

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

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Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant.

Bill Johnson

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God has called us into a place of tenderness, when nobody is looking, when there are no great decisions to make, when it’s just him and me in a hotel room, with no one to pray for, no one to preach to. When it is just two people in a room, that’s where you learn. That’s where you learn his heartbeat. That’s where you learn the presence. That’s where you learn the voice. It’s in the moments when nobody is watching, nobody is evaluating how good you’re doing. When it is just you and him.

Bill Johnson

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It is INCONSISTENT to have Jesus pay a price for healing and for us to believe it is not Gods intention to heal.

Bill Johnson

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

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

Bill Johnson

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You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn’t owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you’re going to have to give up your right to understanding. It’s called trust.

Bill Johnson

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