Adam Houge > Quotes

“The hardest time to say something that turns another back to the Lord is during an argument. We get heated and easily tempted to say something we don’t mean. Perhaps in our anger for the moment we mean what we say. But when we start thinking more rationally, we realize that’s not our heart at all. So we end up regretting our words. In this example we see that the words start with the heart. We need to learn to back down and cool off a minute. If we aren’t meditating on the Lord, in our anger we will let something slip. It’s good to remember to cool off and spend some time with God. Think about the situation, then go back and speak when your heart is sober.”
― Adam Houge, The 7 Most Powerful Prayers That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Jesus said to him, ‘Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’” John 20:29 ”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Spiritual Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Please Pray With Me, “Lord, I know I’ve sinned and I’m sorry. I’m sorry for every way I’ve ever hurt You or anyone else. God, I repent! I want to change my life! I want to be better for You. Please forgive me. God I can’t do this myself. I failed at this life You gave me the first time I tried. Please help me God. Please help me to do this right. Please give me your Holy Spirit now that I may be alive in You. Give me Your Spirit, Lord, that I can have strength to please You in all things. Create in me a new heart. I devote my life to You now. Please, Jesus, be my Lord and Savior forever. Amen.”
― Adam Houge, The 7 Most Powerful Prayers That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Righteousness is faith in motion. It is the work of faith. The faith we have is expressed by the things we do. When we make ourselves pliable in God’s hands He is able to work through us more powerfully.”
― Adam Houge, The 7 Most Powerful Prayers That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Prayer enters us into the throne room of the living God. By prayer, we can come boldly before His throne and make requests, lay down burdens, and find rest.”
― Adam Houge, The 7 Most Powerful Prayers That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Not every type of love satisfies, and not every type of love is right. The world would tell you to love yourself like no tomorrow. But if you only focus on making yourself happy and following your own heart, it will lead to roads of disaster in the long run. Remember that happiness is not only a reflection of what happens to you outwardly but who you are inwardly. How you react to the circumstances of life will determine how good or how bad your life may be. But the circumstances of life and the way we’re treated still matters. For these conditions augment our overall state of happiness.”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“If we learn to wait for His voice we can walk by faith. If we walk by faith He will direct our paths. In the end it all boils down to being led by Him on a day to day basis. As we said before, the first aspect of learning to be led is learning His voice. The second is waiting to hear it and the third is submitting to it no matter the cost it brings on your life. And why? Because your love for God compels you to do so! There is no other way to please Him, and we could never understand our own way. This is why we addressed in the previous prayer the need for surrender. By being pliable we can be led. Then by being led we can be justified, because it is God who works in us and through us both to will and to do. As we read, “For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.”  Php 2:13”
― Adam Houge, The 7 Most Powerful Prayers That Will Change Your Life Forever

“He hasn't only known you now that you’re alive, He's known you since before time. Before He ever created time, He thought of you. You are not an accident! You are a purposeful well-thought out creation of God. He's been spending thousands of years thinking of you. How you will look, and act.”
― Adam Houge, The 7 Most Powerful Prayers That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Many parents are so caught up in trying to provide food, clothing, and other necessities that they forget to cherish the relationships they have now. They watch their children grow, work hard to provide, and tell themselves their children will be fine. But on the inside, their kids are secretly broken for a deeper relationship with their mom and dad. Sometimes we focus so hard on filling their stomachs and clothing their flesh that we forget to fill their hearts. We work so hard to love our children that sometimes we forget to actually love them in the end!”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“our periods of waiting are not idle moments of life. During them God is operating on our hearts to prepare us for the blessings that lie ahead. This”
― Adam Houge, When God Makes You Wait

“If you love with a sincere heart, then life will bless you in the end. Sincere love is to show love without expecting anything in return. In so doing, you will reap a blessing naturally because you sowed the proper seeds.”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“When all the doors start closing, it doesn’t mean disaster is coming; it means that God is about to open a new door.”
― Adam Houge, When God Makes You Wait

“Lord I commit myself to having a servant’s heart. Make my heart like Your’s. Please open my eyes to see those in need around me, and give me what is necessary to deliver them. Work in me and through me that You may be glorified. I surrender to Your hand on my life, and devote myself to this forever. Teach me how to love like You, I want to honor you in all”
― Adam Houge, The 7 Most Powerful Prayers That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.” Proverbs 10:12”
― Adam Houge, If You Change Your Words It Will Transform Your Life

“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.” (Rom. 8:5–7).”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“You may not mean the world to some people, but God sent His only begotten Son into this world to die for you.”
― Adam Houge, If You Change Your Words It Will Transform Your Life

“The only failure is when people learn nothing from their mistakes. I once lost $4,000 on an investment. But rather than calling myself a failure, I decided to treat it like a college course. The tuition to learn that lesson was $4,000. Now, having paid my dues, I will never make that mistake again.”
― Adam Houge, If You Change Your Words It Will Transform Your Life

“God is not pleased by the works of the flesh but of the Holy Spirit.”
― Adam Houge, How To Hear God's Voice Easily And Effectively

“You could gain all the money in the world serving yourself, but if an abundant life is all you’re after, then the end result will be bitterness.”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Success isn’t getting that raise or promotion. Success isn’t that trophy or that hard-earned thing you wanted in life. Success isn’t about what you do for yourself but what you do for others while embracing what God has done for you. True success mends the broken heart and heals the shattered spirit. It mends a family and keeps it a tightly knit group of friends rather than enemies always at each other’s throats. True success is a solid marriage rather than a broken or lost one. True success is helping someone who wants to die realize that life is worth living because you love them. Real success produces life and blesses the soul.”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Habits have power. Power to build up your life and power to tear it down. God calls us to establish His perfect habits by which we can be transformed daily. How you choose to use your habits will determine your destiny.”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“God, be my strength in my weakness; lead me not into temptation but deliver me from the evil one.”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Let God create your future. Is He not a better creator than we? Isn’t He able to give you a better future than you could imagine? Submit to God and honor Him with your life. That way your life may become a living worship to Him—due glory given by a true praise warrior.”
― Adam Houge, Becoming a Praise Warrior Because Every Prayer Should End In Praise

“Is life merely about achievement? If we should achieve anything, we should become lovingly moral and soundly wise people. Such people that only pursue selfish gain forget that life has its end. Indeed, you don’t need God to become rich, famous, or powerful. Anyone can do that! But what you do with your life after you die is determined by the decisions you make now, as you know.”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Do not love your life or the pleasures of this world. Do not love the entertainment of this world, but be caught up in the things of Christ. Your life should not be about the things that happen around you that give you joy but about the One who dwells within you. Do not be wrapped up in constant TV, movies, video games, or other idle things. Remember that when we gave our lives to Christ, we gave Him twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, not twenty minutes a day during a morning devotion.”
― Adam Houge, Memorize Your Bible 112 Verses Every Christian Should Know and Understand About God’s Love

“As we continually sit in the presence of the Spirit and practice His word, He changes our desires to conform them to His. Now let me make something clear: DO NOT BE LED BY DESIRE! I am not teaching that you should be led by desire but merely explaining how God changes our hearts to communicate His will to us. Anytime a desire enters your heart, bring it to God before you do anything. Lay it at His feet and be anxious for nothing, but wait for His answer. Be objective to His will. When you lay your desires at His feet, let go of them. If you’re desiring the wrong thing, it may be difficult to hear the right thing coming from God’s mouth. This can happen when you’re led by desire or swallowed up in it. Yet the Lord doesn’t call us to be swallowed up with desire but to overcome desire through surrendering to Him. In surrender, He can conform our heart to His then, by desire, He may augment the communication of His will to us. In this, God leads us through desire. Although desire is the beginning of temptation, there is a difference between holy desire and evil desire. Holy, godly desire is the desire of the Holy Spirit at work in your heart. Evil desire is the desire of the flesh at work in your heart. By making this distinction and pursuing spiritual desire, we can become more pleasing to the Lord. Desire is a method God uses to augment His leading, but it is not a method we can depend upon to be led by. And why? Because of our own hearts. Our own hearts tend to get in the way, and there are times that it can be difficult to make the distinction between our heart and God’s heart. If we follow our own heart, we follow the will of the flesh and work out sin. And as it is written, “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9  Therefore, seeing that the heart can get in the way and that it is wicked, we should not act upon desire. When desire enters your heart and you believe it to be godly, this is not a time to act, because the heart is deceitful above all things. Your heart may deceive you with a seemingly godly thing to fulfill your own will. Rather than acting upon desire, even though it may appear godly, when you receive desire, it is time to pray. Every time you have a desire to do something godly, you should always lay it before the”
― Adam Houge, How to Understand the Whispers of God: Everything You Will Ever Need to Know to Hear God's voice and Understand His Will for Your Life

“How mighty are the ways of God! You are slow to anger and swift to love. Your heart bleeds forgiveness, and Your hand works mighty signs for all to see.”
― Adam Houge, 30 Prayers Of Praise: Becoming A Habitual Worshipper Through 30 Days Of Prayer

“God will always give you more than you can personally bear on your own. But it will never be more than He can bear. This way, you can learn that your strength is found in Jesus Christ and not in yourself.”
― Adam Houge, How to Understand the Will of God for Your Life

“Everyone needs change because no one is perfect. If one doesn’t want to change but enjoys the complacency of a fruitless life, then they need to understand that the hardships of life are there to prod them into a better mentality. But if you seek to grow and search the right places for that growth, you’ll find an eternal blessing with the fruit of joy in the end.”
― Adam Houge, NOT A BOOK: The 7 Habits That Will Change Your Life Forever

“God doesn’t just permit these difficult situations in life but appoints them for your sake so you can learn from them and grow thereby. He appoints them to test you and refine your faith, that through your circumstances you will learn to rest in Christ at all times. When you do this, He can work through you continually. He doesn’t give you these difficult situations for you to learn that He’ll only be your strength when everything falls apart. Rather, He would have you learn that He has always been your strength, so”
― Adam Houge, Slaying Your Giants: How to Have Massive Faith