Power Quotes

Intolerance of your present creates your future. Never complain about what you permit, if you don’t like something and its in your power to change it, change it. Remember, we have already learned that it won’t change, until you change it . The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. The problem that infuriates you the most could be the problem God has called you to solve. This could be a key to your assignment in life, what you are here for, your significance, can be found in the problems you solve for others. Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of solving it. And you cannot correct or change what you are unwilling to confront. Start with you! Confront those attitudes that have been keeping you down, preventing you from becoming all that you were destined to be. Remember, there is a champion in you, waiting for the chance to become all you were destined to become. Habit is a powerful force. The force of habit. It can be your friend or it...

Nothing changes until you change it. My daughter told me, ‘Dad if you change your life and ministry just 1% per week, you will make a 52% change each year’. Wow, if you want something you have never had, you must do something you have never done. Even if it’s only 1% a week, you will change your course 52% in the coming year. A 1 % change per week, in your eating habits, a 1% change per week in your study habits, or your saving habits or any life habit for that matter, will result in a 52% change in the first year alone. These little changes can be the key to your success. Make the small changes that are in your power to do so, and sooner or later you will start to experience the kind of results you have only dreamed about. Remember, “The hand of the diligent, gains wealth” (Proverbs 10:4). Nothing changes until you change it. ‘What you can tolerate you cannot change’ . You will never conquer what you refuse to hate. Giving is proof that you have conquered greed.  Ch...

This is my personal assistants favourite saying. Sometimes we are waiting for things to change, but remember a definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result. I always like to say “If you want something you have never had, you must be prepared to do something you have never done“. Some things are out of our hands and we can’t change them, but there are many things we can change if we try. It’s the little things that can make a big difference in the long run. A little change in attitude here, or a slight adjustment there, and sooner or later we start to see the difference. They tell me it takes about 10 kilometers to turn around one of the large ocean going freighters out at sea. These super tankers take up to 14 kilometers to stop when thrown from full forward to full reverse. So you see your life, work, attitude or ministry may have been traveling in one direction for a while. You may think it impossible, for you to change. You may b...

What you hear repeatedly, you will eventually believe. Repetition, our school teachers know this basic law of learning. That’s why when we were at school, we learned many things in our early years by repetition. Someone once said, “You must hear something at least 16 times, before you eventually believe it”. Television commercials are repeated over and over. These are backed up by newspaper, magazine, internet and billboard advertisements. The marketers know we must continually hear and see something before we respond to it.  Romans 10:17 says “ So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God ”.  It simply takes time to absorb a message. Great achievers understand the necessity for their team and those following them, to hear instructions, teaching and training, again and again, before they fully grasp new concepts.  Do not expect those around you and those with whom you network, to understand everything instantly. You are a result o...

You will be ruled by either faith or by feelings. Feelings cannot receive from God. It’s faith that receives from God. When we read the gospels, many times we will see Jesus saying “According to your faith be it unto you”. We need to have faith in seed. Your seed is the only influence you have over your future. Your seed is a photograph of your faith . What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you. While I preach the gospel, I am sending forth the word, a light shining into the dark corners of a person’s heart. This light exposes deeds and idols, this light (word) challenges attitudes, deeds, motives and actions. God is saying to us “before I can paint the corners of your heart with my spirit, these hidden things need to be repented of and removed”. God is renovating our hearts, he wants to renovate, renew and refresh. God lives in us and we are His temple 1 Corinthians 3:6 “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase” . He has a right to...

Mark 4:26-27 26And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. Here we see that the kingdom of God is just like casting seed into the ground. We cast our seed into the ground and God does the GROWING . The productivity of the seed is not determined by the seed itself. It is determined by the ground. The ground must be prepared. In order to produce one hundred fold, we must allow God by His spirit to prepare the ground of our heart. It’s prepared ground that receives the seed and brings forth one hundred fold return. When we sow our seed into other places, we must look to make sure that we are sowing into good ground. Seed will yield different levels of increase in direct relation to the quality of the ground into which it is sown. Mark 4:16-20 16And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, im...

Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. - Henry David Thoreau Many people have started out with a dream, a vision, a word from the Lord. They have burned in their hearts to see that word or that dream fulfilled in their lives. But the longer it took for the dream to come to pass, the less their hearts burned for it. Finally, they released it all together and let the dream of God for their lives slip right out of their hearts and hands into oblivion. There is nothing more tragic than this. To release your dream or your vision, the very purpose for which you were created and born into the world. There is no one else like you, you were born to be remarkable, and God has placed a special dream or vision in your heart. When you came into the world, that dream, that vision came into the world with you. Seize it tightly, hold it fast, don’t let the circumstances that surround you today or the things of the past rob ...