For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
BILL HYBELSFor a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
BILL HYBELSIt’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
BILL HYBELSVision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
BILL HYBELSYou can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
BILL HYBELSMost people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
BILL HYBELSPrayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
BILL HYBELSIf there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
BILL HYBELSIf you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
BILL HYBELSWe all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
BILL HYBELSDon’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
BILL HYBELSIt’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
BILL HYBELSChurch is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
BILL HYBELSThe Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
BILL HYBELSWhen you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?”
BILL HYBELSI’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
BILL HYBELSit’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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