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And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.

As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.

Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers-he is offended by Anything Less. If your prayers aren't impossible to You, they are insulting to God- why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead and God is moved to Omnipotent action

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory. The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.

CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.

Don’t just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don’t just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream.                 Claim your promise.                                   Spell your miracle.

Don't wait to worship God until you get to the Promised Land; you've got to worship along the way.

Drawing prayer circles isn’t about proving yourself to God; it’s about giving God an opportunity to prove Himself to you. Just in case you have forgotten — and to ensure that you always remember — God is for you. I can’t promise that God will always give you the answer you want. I can’t promise that He’ll answer on your timeline. But I can promise this: He answers every prayer, and He keeps every promise. That is who He is. That is what He does.

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.

Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.

God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here’s the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.

God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

If the kingdom of God had departments, we’d want to work in research and development. We felt like Jesus didn’t hang out at the synagogue, he hung out at wells. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. Let’s not wait for people to come to us, let’s go to them.

If we do the little things like they are big things, then God will do the big things like they are little things.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.

If you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it.

If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

If you really believe in the message you're preaching, you want as many people as possible to listen.

If you're bored, one thing is for sure: You're not following in the footsteps of Christ.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.

If you want to see God move make a move.

I have an unshakable sense of destiny because I know that as long as I pursue God's calling on my life, then God is ultimately responsible for getting me where He wants me to go.

I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They need spiritual revelation. They don't need to think about politics on the weekend. They need to be reminded to seek first the kingdom of God.

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.