367 Quotes by Bill Johnson

God’s agenda is so glorious, and His love and purposes for our lives are so great, that everything else pales in comparison. We should all be like Nehemiah, who, when the enemies of Israel tried to get him to come out of the city and talk with them on the Plain of Ono, said, “... I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won’t move many mountains.

Having a renewed mind is often not an issue of whether or not someone is going to heaven, but of how much of heaven he or she wants in his or her life right now.

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can’t find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

There is no question that spending time with God changes our desires. We always become like the one we worship. But it’s not because we’ve been programmed to wish for the things He wants us to wish for; it’s because in friendship we discover the things that please Him – the secret things of His heart. It is the instinct of the true believer to search for and find, that which brings pleasure to the Father.

The most simple way to stay encouraged is to feed your heart on what He is doing, not on what He hasn’t done. If you can’t see what He is doing, feed on what He has done in the past.

If we are not careful, the steady stream of bad news will cloud our awareness of what God is saying and doing. Deception sets in that positions us to live and act defensively instead of continuing to respond to God’s leading.

Fear is the guard dog that is protecting the fortress of spiritual prosperity. When the dog starts barking, we know that the treasure he is guarding is near.

Why do we question good news? It’s because we have allowed our circumstances to shape us in a way that expects good things to end. In the Kingdom, when life is created, it continues to bring life. Anything outside of the Kingdom teaches us that good things end. So what world do we want to live from? The Kingdom or outside of the Kingdom?