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“To begin, begin.”
― William Wordsworth

“Someone bigger than us. Stronger. Able to handle everything. Someone who will care for us, fight on our behalf, and extend grace to us always. Someone limitless and loving, beyond our imagination, and right there in the intimate details of our lives—always the same and yet forever doing a new thing in and through us.”
― Holley Gerth, Hope Your Heart Needs: 52 Encouraging Reminders of How God Cares for You

“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.”
― William Osler

“the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.”
― William Osler

“Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.”
― William Osler

“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”
― John Updike, A Month of Sundays

“Writing teachers always tell students “Write what you know.” What do I know? I know myself—my struggles, my doubts, my moments of glory and victory, my times of defeat. I know what it means to feel out of place. I know what dreams are made of, and how they can die, or change, or be fulfilled in ways beyond imagining. I know love—not just the heady giddiness of romance, but commitment and friendship and the sometimes difficult interactions with those we call family. I know the love and infinite patience of God, and the thousands of ways God’s grace sneaks up on me when I’m not looking. I know that life doesn’t always work out the way we want it to. And I know that God brings hope, even during times of darkness and despair.
(As quoted on p. 282 of Behind the Stories, by Diane Eble.)”
― Penelope J. Stokes

“Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life? ”
― Eric Allenbaugh

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“[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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Effective prayer is often like the felling of a great tree—it takes repeated blows.”
― John Eldredge, Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority

“…I am careful how I bring my emotion, or my experience, to the need at hand. I don't ignore them; but neither do I let them dictate what I am praying. Our testimonies of previous results are valuable, and they may come into play. But this is a very dynamic story we find ourselves in, and as we mature in prayer, let us be careful not to assume this situation is exactly the same as the one before. You will want to ask God what needs to be prayed.”
― John Eldredge, Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority