9 Quotes by Wayne Barber

We are just vessels through which Christ works. The Christ life is a journey. We will never arrive at a point where we don’t have to struggle with our flesh anymore. Either the Lord will return or we will die before that ever happens. We don’t have to live defeated lives, but we should expect struggles to come and go.

We often try all of our strategies for life, but it is interesting that when God orchestrates our lives and puts us into an imprisoned situation that we can’t get out of, we learn what it means to be yielded to Jesus Christ.

The more time you spend in the Word of God, the more easily you will recognize the Spirit of God’s voice when He speaks to you. It may not be audibly, but you will sense the convicting hand of God upon your heart.

God is not in the business of making our lives all sweetness and light. He is in the business of chipping away our exteriors so that the image of Christ can emerge. The most painful thing He could take us through is motivated by His love and orchestrated by His power. Under God’s authority and by God’s grace, you are no longer a victim. Instead, God is using the trial to form you into the image of Christ Jesus.

If people are seeing us more than they are seeing Christ, then something is out of balance.

When Christ is all you have, that’s the time you realize that Christ is all you need.

When you glorify Christ and He is seen in and through you, your behavior will radically change. Remember, this is not a self-help program. This is not where you grit your teeth and say, “I’m going to do better.” Flesh doesn’t get better. But when you come and say, “I can’t do better,” and you are willing to die to your own will and your own agenda and you are willing to surrender yourself to Christ, then your behavior will be markedly different.

Jesus didn’t come into our lives to rent a room; He bought the house! As we unlock the doors to the areas that we’ve held onto and allow Him free reign, we experience His life living through us.

When we come to understand that the Christian life is something that I “get to do,” not something I “have to do,” then we are coming near to the Christ life.