Kim Meeder > Quotes

“Sometimes, just believing in someone is enough for them to start believing in themselves.”
― Kim Meeder

“When I ride a horse, it just makes my blood wiggle! [Cole, age 5]”
― Kim Meeder, Bridge Called Hope: Stories of Triumph from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams

“There are only two kinds of people in this world... those who pick their nose... and liars. [Joshua, age 9]”
― Kim Meeder, Bridge Called Hope: Stories of Triumph from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams

“True hope is not fully realized when we keep it for ourselves, but only when we imitate Jesus Christ and give it away. That's when hope becomes mature.”
― Kim Meeder

“A sincere hug or a well-placed kiss can communicate a book of words in a single moment.”
― Kim Meeder, Bridge Called Hope: Stories of Triumph from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams

“Sacrificing her own safety and comfort, a broken young woman lay down in the snow, side by side with a broken young horse.”
― Kim Meeder, Bridge Called Hope: Stories of Triumph from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams

“To step inside a sealed, twelve-by-twelve-foot space with a wild animal that is many times your size is extremely hazardous to say the least. Yet sending these frightened animals out into the real world without giving them tools to safely deal with a new environment...could be disastrous. It would not be unlike sending a soldier on a mission without any training. Clearly, it was not a scenario lending itself toward safety or success for either horse or new owner.”
― Kim Meeder, Bridge Called Hope: Stories of Triumph from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams

“For many young girls, having a horse of their own ranks high on the scale of importance, right up there with breathing.”
― Kim Meeder

“Unexpectedly, she took several trotting steps and then threw in a couple of feeble attempts at bucking! She felt good enough to try and play! ... Instead of slowing down, she broke into a very awkward canter, punctuated by all sorts of goofy attempts to throw her heels up. I couldn't help but laugh out loud at her faltering display of joyful rejuvenation.”
― Kim Meeder, Bridge Called Hope: Stories of Triumph from the Ranch of Rescued Dreams

“We all have a job to do—a commissioning fueled by the forces of heaven, a spiritual assignment that will be opposed at every step by the forces of hell.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“Indeed, our pain has a purpose. All of it. If we do not believe this, it only means we have not yet turned the corner into trusting in Him more than our pain.
This is what Jesus can do with pain, any pain, given to Him.
When we surrender our suffering to Him, He makes it into something beautiful, powerful, life changing. But there is something He cannot heal—the pain we refuse to give to Him. And this is pain that destroys.”
― Kim Meeder, Revival Rising: Embracing His Transforming Fire

“The enemy loves my busyness because he knows what "busy" really means: "Being Under Satan's Yoke." It's not a glamorous distraction, but it's highly effective in removing me from the front lines of spiritual warfare.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“Lord Jesus,… I’m sorry for being so consumed with the business of fulfilling the small picture that I’ve missed the big picture—the ultimate picture of positioning my heart purposefully, quietly to welcome and receive all that You desire to pour within me.”
― Kim Meeder, Revival Rising: Embracing His Transforming Fire

“[W]e can choose to praise Jesus through any darkness that might befall us. Doing so does not mean that our troubling circumstances will go away; it means that the prison of heaviness we feel because of them will.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“Your Word promises, “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).
The ignition of my revival begins with bowing before You in humility, prayer, seeking, turning.”
― Kim Meeder, Revival Rising: Embracing His Transforming Fire

“God created us to know Him and pursue a growing relationship with Him daily. Out of that relationship pours the overflow, the river of His love that joins us to Him and each other.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“The mission field is where we are, never where we go.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“I have navigated so much of my life on autopilot, moving mechanically through the more routine parts of my day. Then, when the spiritual parts arrive—meetings, speaking, praying, writing, engagements—I ask that His Spirit fill, inhabit and lead me. That is certainly a good thing, but not His best thing. It was never God's intention for any of us to live our lives in the land of perpetually playing spiritual hokey-pokey.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“The motivation to share our faith does not rise from courage but love.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“Friend, the call on your life is simple. It amounts to three things—only three. Love God, love each other and share the hope of His redeeming love (see Mark 12:30-31; 16:15).”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“Friend, God is calling you to be beautiful, but not in the way the world demands. It was never His desire for you to focus on looking beautiful—He wants you to become beautiful.”
― Kim Meeder, Fierce Beauty: Choosing to Stand for What Matters Most

“Anxiety can only happen when our hope is genuinely in the wrong thing, not in Jesus.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“Again, in 2 Chronicles 7:14 we read, “Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.”
…we must admit that we need help and release our control (humble ourselves). We must ask our heavenly Dad for help (pray). We must pursue Him (seek His face), and we must abandon our wayward journey in the wrong direction (turn). When we choose to humble ourselves, pray, seek Him and turn from our junk, then God hears, forgives, heals.”
― Kim Meeder, Revival Rising: Embracing His Transforming Fire

“Fake freedom teaches that believers can live on the redline of this world, with one foot on “belief in Jesus” and the other entrenched in what offends holiness. Yet in this position, the enemy has access to attack anytime he chooses.

 This is not faith; it is spiritual roulette.”
― Kim Meeder, Revival Rising: Embracing His Transforming Fire

“We are alive today to love God, to advance the saving hope of Jesus and to fight for those in our midst who are losing their battle for hope.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“All the enemy truly cares about is you jumping out of God’s protective presence. Once you are away from the loving shelter of the Almighty, the enemy’s singular focus is your continual slide toward utter destruction. He wants everything in you that belongs to Jesus to die. Whether slow or quick makes no difference to him; our enemy is always watching and waiting for an avenue to attack and destroy. His endgame is to run you down into a spiritual massacre so complete that the horrifying result will be his defecation on your skull.”
― Kim Meeder, Revival Rising: Embracing His Transforming Fire

“When we dwell on God's provision, His promises, His presence, authentic joy is the natural overflow, which inspires us to praise and worship Him through our hardships. In so doing, we can experience His peace through any circumstance.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“By choosing not to forgive, I was telling God that I loved my stance of self-justification more than Him.”
― Kim Meeder, Revival Rising: Embracing His Transforming Fire

“It is so easy to get entangled in all the "purpose" questions about life.… You want to know God's will for your life? Easy. You pray, you listen, you do…. This is the wild simplicity of our God.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me” (Jeremiah 29:13, emphasis added).
God is not interested in part of your heart. He desires for you to pursue Him with all your heart. Giving Him only part of your heart is the same as giving Him part of your cancer. The rest of it is still going to kill you.”
― Kim Meeder, Revival Rising: Embracing His Transforming Fire