Steven Furtick Quotes:

The voice you believe will determine the future you experience

source: - Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.24, Multnomah

Topics: Believe, Voice, Determine, Confidence In God, Chatterbox

Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.

source: - Twitter post from May 16, 2017

Topics: Moving, Simple, Obedience, Mighty God, Instruments Of God

I have nothing to prove, because I am already approved.

source: - Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.43, Multnomah

Topics: Prove

If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips

Topics: Life Changing, Lips, Want

It shouldn't freak you out to realize that God's eyes are on you. Because He doesn't see you through eyes of disapproval or disappointment. His presence is not a sign of condemnation. It's actually an invitation. God is present with you, through His Holy Spirit, because He intends to uproot you from the tyranny of the familiar, shatter the monotonous life you've had. And take you on an adventure.

source: - Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.30, Multnomah

Topics: Disappointment, Adventure, Eye, Monotonous Life, Disapproval

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 around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?

source: - Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.84, Multnomah

Topics: Focus, Enemy, Wish, Asking God

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Changing, Motivational Life Changing

Jesus will always move away from religious drama and toward the needs of people who are hurting. Jesus will always go out of his way to find and minister to people who others will go out of their way to avoid. I love him for that.

Topics: Religious, Hurt, Jesus

The death of contentment is comparison.

Topics: Contentment, Comparison

My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.

source: - Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.181, Multnomah

Topics: Joy, Determined, Christ

Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise.

source: - Twitter post from Mar 04, 2013

Topics: Regret, Today, Tomorrow

I dont believe God's called me to survive the world but to change it for His glory.

Topics: Believe, World, Glory

Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance.

Topics: Calling, Circumstances

Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you're not really praying. You're just pontificating. You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

Topics: Prayer, Needs, Action, Audacious

When your perspective is preloaded with the Word of God, lies lose their power over your life.

Topics: Lying, Perspective, Over You

You can't fulfill your calling in your comfort zone!

Topics: Calling, Comfort, Comfort Zone

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.

Topics: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Entitlement, Sense Of Entitlement

Every heart has an atmosphere. What is the atmosphere of your heart? Nothing good develops in an atmosphere of anxiety

Topics: Heart, Anxiety, Atmosphere

God guarantees that His Word will not return void. He doesn't guarantee that the return will be immediate. Keep sowing!

source: - FaceBook post by Steven Furtick from Aug 31, 2011

Topics: Void, Return, Sowing

If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.

Topics: Expectations, Able, Mets

What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.

Topics: Father, Thinking, What Matters

Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.

Topics: War, Mean, Winning

When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work.

Topics: Quality, Builder

If the size of your vision for your life isn't intimidating to you, there's a good chance it's insulting to God.

Topics: Vision, Insulting, Size

You can't make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.

Topics: Moving, Rooms

Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.

Topics: Prayer, Arena, Ability

God gives the exact experiences he wants them to have in order to shape the specific destiny he designed for them.

Topics: Destiny, Order, Giving

Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.

Topics: People, Raw Materials, Levels, Audacious, Level Headed

Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.

Topics: Moving, Ordinary, Obedience

Accomplishing the impossible is all about seeing the invisible.

Topics: Impossible, Invisible

God cannot bless who you pretend to be

Topics: Bless

True ministry isn't just 'cut and paste,' it has to be birthed from the inside out.

Topics: Cutting, Ministry, Worship

You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

Topics: Trust In God, Natural

God will arrange every experience in your life to serve His purpose.

Topics: Purpose, Gods Will

Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas...it might look real good but it will get you no where.

Topics: Real, Looks, Might

Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.

Topics: Journey, Mirages, Destination, Enjoy The Journey

True creativity is fresh, but not always original.

Topics: Creativity

Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'

Topics: Believe, Promise, Audacity

If we have the audacity to ask, God has the ability to perform.

Topics: Audacity, Ability

You have a personal birthright to believe in a God-given mission for your life.

Topics: Believe, Missions, Given

Faith is knowing who God is and acting accordingly... God fights when we move.

Topics: Moving, Fighting, Knowing

The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.

Topics: People, Useless, Might

Most believers aren't in imminent danger of ruining their lives. They're facing a danger that's far greater: wasting them.

Topics: Danger, Believer

Heaven answers my 'I can't' with a resounding 'He did'.

Topics: Heaven, Answers

Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.

source: - FaceBook post by Steven Furtick from Jun 26, 2013

Topics: Victory, Cost, May

The goal of faith isn't to take away your fears but to leverage those fears to create bolder belief. Faith leads you past your fears and reassures you of God's presence. And after a while, you begin to trust that God is going to lift you above the waves this time just like he did last time.

Topics: Past, Goal, Lasts, God's Presence

You cannot endure what you never enjoy!

Topics: Enjoy, Endure

The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!

Topics: Sun, Christ, Graves

The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.

Topics: Approval, Purpose, Standards

Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.

Topics: People, Good Enough, Enough

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.

source: - Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.197, Multnomah

Topics: Opportunity, Waiting, Want, Mighty God, Instruments Of God

God sets boundaries before He gives blessing.

Topics: Blessing, Giving, Boundaries

When God demands more of you, it's because He sees more IN you

Topics: Demand

The faith to step out is worthless without the faithfulness to stick it out.

Topics: Sticks, Steps, Faithfulness

If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.

Topics: Christian, Believe, Sleep

Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.

Topics: Opportunity, Prove, Presence Of God

Did you know it's possible to have the right passion, but have the wrong expression of the right passion?

Topics: Passion, Expression, Did You Know

His Spirit speaks with promptings that are not audible—often they are much louder than that—always in perfect harmony with the Scriptures and always resounding with perfect wisdom.

Topics: Perfect, Scripture, Spirit, Perfect Harmony

We're comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else's highlight reel.

Topics: Behind The Scenes, Compare, Highlights

We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of Bible studies because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't teach doctrine because it gets in the way of evangelism. If you want to be fed God's word or have the Bible explained to you then you are a fat lazy Christian and you need to shut up and get to work or you need to leave this church because we ONLY do evangelism.

Topics: Christian, Book, Lazy, Bible Study

Nothing gets stronger without resistance.

Topics: Stronger, Resistance

Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God's!

Topics: Responsibility, Outcomes, Obedience

It is the experience of love that enables us to change.

Most of the time, it's not until we embrace our limitations that God can start to use us beyond our limitations.

Topics: Use, Embrace, Limitation

When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime.

Topics: Integrity, Dark, Shadow, Dark Places

We thank Him for everything before we ask Him for anything!

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He'll make your box bigger.

Topics: Frustration, Waiting, Innovation

You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.

Topics: Monday, Voice, Waiting, Small Voice

Failure isn't final until you quit!!

Topics: Finals, Quitting

Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision.

Topics: Love Is, Decision, Feelings

The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.

Topics: Differences, Vision, Audacity

The next time you lose your momentum in daily life as you're chasing after God's best for you, don't give up and conclude that it's over. The greater life hasn't ended for you. It's only out of sight under the waters of the ordinary. And God can resurface it, supernaturally, as many times as it takes. As many times as you're willing.

Topics: Giving Up, Sight

Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.

Topics: Adversity, Perspective, Problem

You can't be grateful for something you feel entitled to.

Topics: Grateful, Be Grateful, Feels, Entitled

Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.

Topics: Struggle, Opportunity, Wish

In Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.

Topics: Matter, Christ, Who You Are

If your problem is too big for you, it’s just the right size for God.

source: - Steven Furtick (2013). “Sun Stand Still Devotional: A Forty-Day Experience to Activate Your Faith”, p.101, Multnomah

Topics: Size, Problem, Bigs

Being brave doesn’t mean we have no fear - it means we refuse to be overcome by it.

Topics: Mean, Brave, Overcoming

Most of us are so focused on what we don't have that we're blinded to what we do have.

Topics: Blinded, Focused

Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from calling your name and setting you apart. He placed you on the earth at a certain time for a pre-decided purpose.

source: - Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.38, Multnomah

Topics: Names, Purpose, Calling

The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!

Topics: Waiting, Wish, Waiting On God

The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you’re currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace.

source: - Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.154, Multnomah

Topics: Fighting, Past, Reality

Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.

Topics: Regret, Passivity Is, Should Have, Chatterbox, Condemnation

I can’t expect God’s blessing on my work unless I do it God’s way.

Topics: Blessing, Way, I Can

Etch your vision in stone-but sketch your strategy in pencil.

Topics: Vision, Stones, Strategy

I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.

source: - Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.31, Multnomah

Topics: Kids, World

And even when you can’t get seem to get your act together, your identity is secure and completely intact. Because in Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.

source: - Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.38, Multnomah

Topics: Together, Identity, Matter

It's hard to differentiate between a vision and a delusion - both cause you to see things that no one else sees.

Topics: Vision, Causes, Delusion

You must follow Jesus for yourself, but you can’t follow Him by yourself.

source: - Steven Furtick (2017). “Seven-Mile Miracle: Journey into the Presence of God Through the Last Words of Jesus”, p.73, Multnomah

Topics: Jesus

People who walk in audacious faith don't stop and pray. Audacious faith teaches us to push and pray.

Topics: People, Praying, Teach, Audacious

Seize God’s vision. Activate your faith. Make your move.

source: - Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.33, Multnomah

Topics: Moving, Vision, Make Your Move, Activate

Living your problems and loving them like locked rooms is much different from denying them or capitulating to them. It is believing that God is with you in the imperfect, even disappointing circumstances of your life. It is saying to Him with faith in your heart.

source: - Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.198, Multnomah

Topics: Believe, Heart, Different, God Is With You

I want you to live in the middle of a move of God.

source: - Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.19, Multnomah

Topics: Moving, Want, Middle

Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.

source: - Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.42, Multnomah

Topics: Mean, Acceptance, Accepting God

I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.

source: - Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.15, Multnomah

Topics: Believe, Son, People

But Jesus wanted the crowd to know, look, 'John's (the baptist) the one who got this whole thing started.' In verse ten He says, 'This is the one about whom it is written, 'I'll send my messenger ahead of you who will prepare Your way before You.' Jesus says, 'If it wasn't for John, I wouldn't even be here performing these miracles.'

Topics: Jesus, Miracle, Crowds