Lisa Bevere > Quotes

“There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.”
― Lisa Bevere, Fight Like a Girl: The Power of Being a Woman

“Satan had made it his aim to distract you from who you really are and what the purpose of your life really is. It is his focused objective to lure you out of the path of strength, life, and authority and into a course of intentional destruction.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Women are not a problem...they are an answer”
― Lisa Bevere

“Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Our God loves triumphing over what looks impossible; therefore, he calls an ambush without any means of escape "an opportunity"!”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.”
― Lisa bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“You see, counselors, teachers, and various organizations may all agree with you that you are handicapped, but God never will. He loves giving you the opportunity to face what you fear, because when you face what you fear you become fearless.”
― Lisa Bevere, Fight Like a Girl: The Power of Being a Woman

“Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Our hero status is not dependant on our human might or power or even our human spirit; it comes from the power of His spirit.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“You know you are with true friends when they lift, encourage, correct, and then spur you on.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“God's word is a God sword.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Lovely One, if you dare to dream, you must be brave enough to fight.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“God is not looking for people who act like Christians. He wants us to be Christians! The word Christian means “anointed or Christlike one.” Jesus did not go around “being good”; he went around “doing good” and releasing all who were oppressed. What has he anointed you to do?”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“Saul fell upon his sword to avoid suffering. Jesus stretched himself upon the cross to take away ours.
Saul's suicide cheated his enemies. Jesus' sacrifice cheated death.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“As awesome as life in Eden must have been like, our life in him will ultimately be far better.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“As our God Most High fights, we flourish. As err his people flourish, our God strikes the killing blow. The battles in heaven are seen on earth, and the battles of earth do not escape the notice of heaven. We flourish when we are one with each other and with heaven's purpose.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“God's Word had the power to light our way and to clear the debris that had covered the path so we can walk in it.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Live what is within you out loud.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, your prayers are certainly not frightening our enemy.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“We are meek in the way we follow and fierce in the way we fight. In this manner, gentle and fierce meet and are comfortable.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“Outward pressure is always an opportunity to be inwardly transformed.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“God's Word has the power to light our way and to clear the debris that has covered the path so we can walk in it.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“God uniquely created your DNA and knit your frame in secret so he could surprise the world. He authored how your heart expresses itself; he was the architect of your smile and the melody of your voice; he made all of your features with the fondest thoughts of only you in mind. He celebrated along with your parents your first smile and watched with affection your first steps.”
― Lisa Bevere, Without Rival: Embrace Your Identity and Purpose in an Age of Confusion and Comparison

“God would never have granted women a voice if he intended for them to remain silent. God knew that Adam, and our world, would need the voice and influence of women.”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works. (Psalm 139:14, NKJV)”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World

“honor begins in the heart and works its way out until it is expressed through our actions.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known. MATTHEW ARNOLD, NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH POET AND PHILOSOPHER”
― Lisa Bevere, Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World