I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.
T. D. JAKESWe think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
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Basic Instincts It’s the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
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I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
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We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.
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The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
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The dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it’s all over, your dream will come to pass.
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There is nothing I’m any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.
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The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.
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Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is deteriorating.
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I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
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God’s grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.
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I know whatever God means for me to have He’ll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don’t need it.
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