Bill Johnson quotes:

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.

Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing.

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

The favor of God does not bless self-promotion

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people's lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.

Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.

My history shouts the power of the blood of Jesus. My presence demonstrates the absolute love, affection and purpose of God for my life. My future is drawing me into a hope-filled life that has a purpose of saying, 'on earth as it is in Heaven.'

Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.

Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford 'form without power,' for it creates Christians without purpose.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.

When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus.

Serving reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones who thrill the heart of God, become the targets of those who never fail because they seldom try.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains

Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.

A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.

Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.

The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.

The most simple way to stay encouraged is to feed your heart on what He is doing, not on what He hasn't done. If you can't see what He is doing, feed on what He has done in the past.

As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.

Automatically thinking â??everything that happens is Godâ??s willâ?? is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasnâ??t fighting the Fatherâ??s will when He raised the dead.

There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.

I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.

Don't let your past dictate your future.

In His mercy, God gives us the level of revelation that our character is prepared to handle.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.

The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.

Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.

Transformed people transform cities.

You have authority over every storm you can sleep in

All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.

God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.

You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.

Most closed heavens for the Christian are between his ears. Believing a lie empowers the liar.

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

Presence always wins out over principles.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

Passion produces the best discipline.

In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.

Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are.

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

If you make history with God, He'll make history with you

It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

People follow courage, not titles.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.

I finally discovered something - it's all about Jesus.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.

The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of Gods goodness

So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

Compromise is the door through which deception enters.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response