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“Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness. ”
― Jamie Winship

“Bukan kecerdasan saja yang membawa sukses, tapi juga hasrat untuk sukses, komitmen untuk bekerja keras, dan keberanian untuk percaya akan dirimu sendiri.”
― Jamie Winship

“If you endeavor to love God with your mind, your mind is opened up beyond the rational into the intuitive. The intuitive mind is the place where we pray and dream and hope for things as they ought to be, things yet unseen by the rational mind. If you endeavor to love God with your heart, you engage the emotional intelligence center of your being. Both negative and positive emotions become invitations from God into transformation. If you endeavor to love God with your soul, life becomes nearly unimaginable—the impossible moves into the sphere of possibility. If you endeavor to love God with your body, you will physically change. You will look different. You will move beyond being well into being fit.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“I want the God who initiates life and relationship with me even when I’m not asking. I want the God who loved me even when I was his enemy. I want the God who says to David, “Hey, let me teach you how to fight in a new way, because one day, about ten years from now, you’re going to really need it. You don’t know it yet, you’re not going to trust me yet, but you will. Trust me now in the small, seemingly unimportant things. Learn to do what I say. Throw a rock at that lion. Do it. Trust me, because one day it’s going to make you king. You can do this, trust me.” Is”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“Speaking again on the topic of prayer, Jesus said that the Father knows what we need before we ask him.8 What does that tell us about how we should pray? How does it inform our prayer life? What should we be asking God? Perhaps when we pray, we should ask, “Lord, what do I need?”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“Why is it that we often look for the quick answer, the get-spiritual-quick scheme that will magically turn us into the person we think we are supposed to be?”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. JOEL A. BARKER”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“The journey in discovering your true identity in the kingdom of God is an eternal journey. There is no end to the depths of who God made you to be.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“The next question is, “Lord, where in my life do I feel like I’m not beloved by you? Where in my life am I not trusting you? Where in my life do I think I’m not good enough for you? Where in my life am I listening to the wrong voice?”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“Don’t only read the Bible in some formulaic pattern. Instead, ask God, “What does this say to me? How is this related to my identity? What do you want me to know?” You might truth tell and confess that a certain Scripture passage frightens you. Ask the Lord, “Why am I afraid? What am I afraid of?” After”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“People are mostly afraid all the time. In fact, the number one exhortation in Scripture is, “Do not be afraid.” We can only become fearless as we follow God in our true identity and experience in real life the truth of God’s promises to us.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“All who are obsessed with being secure in life will lose it all—including their lives.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“the most common form of human despair is not being who you are.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“On June 8, 1990, a Los Angeles Times article read, “Repenting: Cable TV mogul Ted Turner has promised to apologize for calling Christianity ‘a religion for losers’ when he speaks at the First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Ga., Wednesday.”1 Although Turner originally meant his “losers” remark as an insult, I would have to say I agree with it. Being a Jesus follower is for losers. If anything is clear in the Gospels, it’s that Jesus is for losers. It’s the winners, the apex predators, the ruling elite, those who are, in today’s vernacular, “bussin’” and “bougie,” who have a hard time with Jesus. It’s hard for someone “dripping” and “extra” to get through the eye of a needle. The humble incarnation and Mount of Transfiguration game plan to the disciples is this: Jesus is for losers. Why? The truth is, everybody is a loser. It’s just that some know it and others are better at pretending it ain’t so. Everyone has separated and fallen away.”
― Jamie Winship, The War of Worldviews: Choosing Connection in a Culture of Separation

“For now, however, let’s begin by practicing this little thing called telling the truth. In Scripture, truth telling is called confession. Don’t be nervous by these perceived “church” words. The word confession just means to tell the truth.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“Fear shuts down creativity and the reception of new ideas.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“The Lord loves you. He will usually begin communicating to you with an affirmation and a challenge—the same way Jesus related to people in the Gospels. This is what you’re supposed to be, and this is what you are supposed to do.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“The obstacle to experiencing God anywhere in life is shame. Shame (feeling unworthy, not good enough) needs to be confessed. You know why? Shame is a false identity. Everything from “I look at pornography,” “I eat too much,” “I drink too much,” “I don’t do this,” “I need to do that,” and so on makes me feel one of three things: fear, guilt, or shame. Fear, guilt, and shame are false identities. It won’t matter how many accountability groups you go to, podcasts you listen to, or books you read. If you live in fear, you are still going to try to control things in order to cope with your anxiety. Your identity is fear.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“From this account, we can surmise what elementary and middle school–aged David was doing with his time. He was learning to shepherd sheep, write poetry, and throw stones with a sling. In middle school or younger, David was practicing the very skills that would make him one of Israel’s greatest kings.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“The speaker finally came to the head of Islamic Studies in a public-school system. “Do you agree that we must receive the sacrifice of Jesus as the way into the kingdom? That this is the only hope for the Muslim people of the world? Do you agree?” The room was silent. Then he looked at the speaker and said, “I’ve wanted to believe this my whole life; I just didn’t know we were allowed to. Yes, I agree.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“Everyone has separated and fallen away. All humankind is in the same boat, “since all have sinned and continually fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). That’s why Jesus came into the world—not to fix problems but to heal broken losers. Luke records an incident ​where the Pharisees are disgusted at the people with whom Jesus keeps company: The Pharisees and their scribes [seeing those with whom He was associating] began murmuring in discontent to His disciples, asking, “Why are you eating and drinking with the tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews]?” And Jesus replied to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but [only] those who are sick. I did not come to call the [self-proclaimed] righteous [who see no need to repent], but sinners to repentance [to change their old way of thinking, to turn from sin and to seek God and His righteousness].” (5:30–32)”
― Jamie Winship, The War of Worldviews: Choosing Connection in a Culture of Separation

“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI”
― Jamie Winship, The War of Worldviews: Choosing Connection in a Culture of Separation

“There, about four hundred men come to him. First Samuel 22:2 describes them as “those who were in distress or in debt or discontented” (NIV). These are the men he attracts. What an army! Why does he attract these kinds of people? Because David knows his own identity. He’s a man after God’s own heart, and when these discouraged men look at David, they see the very heart of God. David takes those four hundred people, and in about three years’ time, he’s leading an army of six hundred of some of the greatest warriors in Israel’s history. Who are they? Four hundred losers who are now six hundred of the very best. How does he do that? How does a twenty-something-year-old, in that amount of time, take four hundred disenfranchised farmers, shepherds, and God only knows what else and transform them into men so skilled at warfare that they’re listed by their identities and what they can do on the battlefield? They actually become known in Hebrew as the gibborim or the mightiest.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“But the Bible narrative is all about creativity bursting forth from the true self, the true you.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“The external conflicts in which we regularly find ourselves come as a result of the inner conflict swirling at our heart level. The inner conflict is sourced in a fear that derives from our constant abiding in a false view of God, which leads to a false view of ourselves and a false view of other people, especially strangers. Unless we experience God in a personal, experiential manner, the repetition compulsion cycle cannot be broken, because the overriding separation worldview lie is too deeply entrenched.”
― Jamie Winship, The War of Worldviews: Choosing Connection in a Culture of Separation

“Do you know why the Holy Spirit rushed upon him when he was anointed king? Because that was David’s identity. That’s the true David. The real David can kill lions and write poetry but only the true David is a shepherd-poet-warrior-king filled with the Spirit of God. In the same way, the real you can accomplish things. But the true you can do . . . well, you don’t even know. You have no idea. Whatever level you find yourself within this world, you can go higher. This”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“Oh my,” she whispered. “Love calls me a healer to the nations. I need to go to the nations.” Within a year, she and her family relocated to another country in order to work with marginalized people. If you ask her today who told her to go, she will tell you it was the Holy Spirit. She realized that she had been hearing that voice her entire life; she just didn’t know who it was. Now she does. Now she listens and everything is different.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“The knowledge of good and evil always leads to a form of death. Always.”
― Jamie Winship, Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

“The kingdom of God is built upon the incarnation, transfiguration, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus and does not make us ashamed. It is real.”
― Jamie Winship, The War of Worldviews: Choosing Connection in a Culture of Separation

“In 2017, a study titled “Mindfulness in Action: Discovering How U.S. Navy Seals Build Capacity for Mindfulness in High-Reliability Organizations (HROs)” identified five key characteristics of a high-resiliency individual (HRI): 1. Operates in present tense 2. Knows what to pay attention to 3. Maintains a flexible and open state of mind 4. Is never stuck in old ways of thinking and can easily change paradigms 5. Faces failure with enthusiasm1”
― Jamie Winship, The War of Worldviews: Choosing Connection in a Culture of Separation