Do you want to be greater?

On Thursday, I started reading Greater by Steven Furtick. He has written one of my favorite books on prayer called Sun Stand Still. In Greater, he challenges us to not settle for "good enough" while at the same time avoiding frustration because we cannot achieve "greatest." He looks at the life of Elisha throughout the book.

Here are some quotes from the first two chapters:

"By leaving and then sending His Spirit to dwell inside His followers--ordinary people like you and me--Jesus released a greater power for us to do extraordinary things on an extraordinary scale. The kinds of things the early church saw and did. The kind of things He still wants to do today through us."

"For most of us, the experience of our daily lives is a far cry from the greater works Jesus talked about in John 14:12."

"There's a huge gap between what God said in His Word and the results we see in our lives."

"Are you ready to open your imagination to the possibility that God has a vision for your life that is greater?"

"My lesser loser life is the opposite of everything greater that God has called me to be."

"That's the beauty of the greater way. It's all about what Jesus has already done and what He desires to do through us. Period. Nobody does greater things for God because they've got it all together. And nobody is disqualified because they don't. . . .God doesn't do greater things exclusively through great people. He does them through anyone who is willing to trust Him in greater ways."