Steven Furtick & Greater

I am continuing to read Greater by Steven Furtick. I read several chapters this week about the greater life God has for us. He even shared a story about Lysa TerKeurst that I had never heard. These chapters were an encouragement to understand who we are and how God can use whatever we have. Here are some quotes:

"That's because you can't step into your new life until you first set fire to whatever is tethering you to your old life."

"God does not necessarily tell you how He will do it, only that He will do it."

"There's a good reason He doesn't feel the need to give you a navigational system. It's because He is offering to be your navigational system."

"Just because God doesn't show you the details doesn't mean He doesn't know them."

D.L. Moody said, "If God is your partner, make your plans big."

"Only God can send the rain. But He expects you to dig the ditches."

"Greater things are possible for you--right in the place where God has positioned you."

"God's greater purpose in any area of your life means giving up your false expectations of greatness to find the greater things He's called only you do to. It means giving up on what others can do that you wish you could do and what you would do if you had certain gifts that you, candidly, do not have and may never develop. When you embrace the limitations of your current life situation and decide to trust God completely and cooperate with Him fully in this season of your life, even greater things are possible."

"You have everything you need to do all that God is calling you to do right now."

"One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking in your house and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?"

"A God who created something out of nothing can certainly create something greater out of little. God can do exceptional things with your exception."

"Start saying yes to God right where you are. Instead of always praying, "God, bless me with more", dare to pray, "God, use what I have. Take what little I have and make it overflow."

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