Quotes about Power

Authority does not increase with volume. We

Believers have both the authority to do God's will because of their position in Christ, and the power to do God's will as long as they walk by the Spirit.

There are always a few sad souls who want to be king.

Before we received Christ, we were slaves to sin. But because of Christ's work on the cross, sin's power over us has been broken. Satan has no right of ownership or authority over us. He is a defeated foe, but he is committed to keeping us from realizing that. He knows he can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past, subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.

The devil is persistent, but we must never let him set the agenda. We don't negotiate with the enemy, nor do we let him distract us from our calling in life. In the face of opposition, our answer is always the same: I am a child of God, saved by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I choose to live my life by faith according to what God says is true in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus is the Truth, and He is the One who sets the captive free. Power for the believer comes in knowing and choosing the truth. We are to pursue truth because we already have all the power we need in Christ (see Ephesians 1:18-19). Furthermore, people in bondage are not liberated by what I do as a pastor, but by what they choose to believe, confess, renounce, and forgive.

We need to learn the names of God because when we know His character and His capacity, we will find rest and discover peace and power in His covenantal care of us.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

There is one voice we never hear. God does not speak in the whole book of Lamentations.11 Heaven is silent. Which does not necessarily mean that heaven is deaf or blind. We shall consider later what Kathleen O'Connor calls 'the power of the missing voice'.

There's no light bulb lit. I half wonder if there's any power to light one. Aunt Alice? A round goblin comes out of the darkness of the hallway.

For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.