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All I can say is Bishop Jakes would not currently accept the designation of Prosperity Preacher or Word of Faith Preacher as an accurate description of what he believes currently. Now his ministry will have to bear that out. I'm not here to defend him or stick up for his various errors. And I don't want to minimize error that is significant. All I'm saying is that he, as of two weeks ago, would not accept those terms, in private conversation, as accurate descriptors of what he believes.

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

By your grace, I will not despair. I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

Every obedience is not easy. This is for Jesus Christ. He deserves everything!

Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get!

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.

God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

[God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.

Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.

Humility is losing yourself in the doing of serving.

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.

It doesn't matter what has happened, better things are coming. God's plan produces hope in me.

It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.

Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen.

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

The Christian way is a life of faith. In order to hold on to the promises of God, you've got to believe them and live by them.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

The day you stop loving your people, they're not your people anymore.

The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.

These criminals represent us. One of them recognized Jesus for who he was and received him; Jesus promised that when he died he would be in heaven with him. The other man rejected Jesus and closed his heart. Unlike the first criminal, when he died he didn't go to heaven. He went to hell. In that sense, these two men on either side of Jesus are just like every person. We either embrace Christ as our Savior and spend eternity with him, or we reject him and say, 'I don't believe it. I'll have nothing to do with.' And these people spend eternity separated from him.

This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there's no quick solution. If you think it's taking too long, remember, God is with you.

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!

What kind of future is in God's plan? A good one to which you can look forward. That's why you can hope.

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.

When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.

When we get bumped - we spill what we are full of - Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present realities. In order to find hope in them, we must seek HIM and HIS perspective. This requires a keen understanding of the redemptive nature of our existence, which points to the glorious gospel of Christ.

When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision of our sovereign God.

When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.

When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.

Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.

While you can't keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in its face. With God's promise in your hand, that's exactly what you are able to do.