When things are moving very fast and people are losing their minds, it’s important to stay grounded. Turn off your phone, read scripture, spend time with friends, and remember internet fury is not real life. It’s going to be ok.
We have leaders who can prophesy with precision but can’t apologize with sincerity. Leaders who know how to gather crowds, but not how to walk in integrity behind closed doors.
We’ve put gifting on a pedestal and buried character in a basement.
Lord, forgive us!
There are folks & forces who are committed to convincing you that you are irrelevant, unnecessary, & long past your usefulness.
If you give in to them, you are done. So, the questions you must answer for yourself are: (1) “Am I done? And if so, (2) “Why am I still here?”
Dedicate your life to something worthy and give it all you have.
Do it the right way as unto the Lord.
In 2 or 3 generations no one will remember you were here.
Only what you do for Christ will last into eternity.
If there is a massive intelligence gap between two people attempting a conversation, the stupid person will often believe the smart person is the stupid one.
Not all conversations are possible or worth having. You may as well speak different languages past a certain point.
There’s more interest in charisma than character. Now, I don’t care if you speak in tongues or stand on your head, as long as you live a holy life; but if all you do is speak in tongues and then with the same tongue you’re bitter and critical and snarl at people, forget it.
If we really worshipped God we’d never backslide. If you saw through into eternity, you’d never never let anybody get you down. You would never expect to get good treatment in a world like this; not even from believers very often.
True revival is not noisy; at least, not at first. It usually begins in a hushed awe. Believers get convicted about sin and the seriousness of God’s holiness. Weeping is heard before shouts.
J.D. Greear