Quotes about Belief

fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.

even if the people could no longer hear God, he believed that God could still hear them.

Don't seek miracles. Follow Jesus. And if you follow Jesus long enough and far enough, you'll eventually find yourself in the middle of some miracles.

Prayer is the way we write the future.

Prayer must be in alignment with the will of God or it's null and void... It it's not God's will, you're not going to get whatever you ask for. God loves you far too much to spoil you in that way. But if it is God's will, God will make a way.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

But God always has a holy surprise up His sovereign sleeve. And when we pray, God throws surprise parties!

Throwing down your staff is letting go and letting God. And that's counterintuitive for those of us who are control freaks. As our executive pastor Joel Schmidgall likes to say, "You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.

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

If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

Prayer is asking God to do something, future tense; praise is believing that God has already done it, past tense.