Top 189 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Johnson - Page 2

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.

Heaven invades earth when there is agreement here to what exists there. Honestly, that's how it happens.

Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

We've not been assigned to hang out until He returns ”we've been given a message and a power that completely revolutionizes life. Why would anyone want to get up in the morning and not shape the course of world history?

If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.

God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.

Because God is better than we think we have to change the way we think.

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious?

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

The best way to prepare yourself for your own miracle is to rejoice in somebody else's.

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God.

If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.

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

I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus.

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

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

Transformed people transform cities.

Don’t be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn’t do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father doing… The moment I have a lesser sense of Him and a greater sense of the problem, I will live in reaction to the problem.

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

Every miracle brings the release of glory.

Serving reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.

Faith is not opposed to the mind. It’s superior to the mind which is why the renewed mind enhances faith.

Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.

God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.

Compromise is the door through which deception enters.

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing.

A heart of faith is anchored in the unseen

Jesus did not live in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father.

Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.

In His mercy, God gives us the level of revelation that our character is prepared to handle.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.