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“We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.”
― Bill Johnson

“Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.”
― Bill Johnson, Hosting the Presence: Unveiling Heaven's Agenda

“So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“The doctrine stating signs and wonders are no longer needed because we have the Bible was created by people who hadn’t seen God’s power and needed an explanation to justify their own powerless churches.”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.”
― Bill Johnson, Spiritual Java

“Most Christians repent enough to get forgiven, but not enough to see the Kingdom.”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“God has called us into a place of tenderness, when nobody is looking, when there are no great decisions to make, when it’s just him and me in a hotel room, with no one to pray for, no one to preach to. When it is just two people in a room, that’s where you learn. That’s where you learn his heartbeat. That’s where you learn the presence. That’s where you learn the voice. It’s in the moments when nobody is watching, nobody is evaluating how good you’re doing. When it is just you and him.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious?”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“Jesus did not go through all His sufferings so we could go to church; He did what He did to atone for sin. And by doing so He made it possible to raise up a new breed of world changers, those who could maintain the standard He set in love, purity and power. This reality is one of the great prophecies that Jesus spoke: “Greater works than these shall you do because I go to the Father” (see John 14:12). Not only does Jesus’ life compel us to follow the miracle worker, so do His promises.”
― Bill Johnson, Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth

“His presence is not upon us to be commandeered or directed by us. Instead, we are tools in his hand. If there is a dove resting on my shoulder in the natural (and I love that phrase ‘and remained’) and I don’t want it to fly away, how am I going to walk around this room? Every step will be with the dove in mind. Every movement I make will be to preserve what I value most.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“If you assign ten new believers the task of studying the Bible to find God’s heart for this generation, not one of them would conclude that spiritual gifts are not for today. You have to be taught that stuff!”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“I can’t afford to live in reaction to darkness. If I do, darkness has had a role in setting the agenda for my life. The devil is not worthy of such influence, even in the negative. Jesus lived in response to the Father. I must learn to do the same.”
― Bill Johnson, Hosting the Presence: Unveiling Heaven's Agenda

“In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“People often come to me and ask me to pray for them, that they would discover God’s will for their life. I already know God’s will for their life – heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, cleanse lepers. They say, ‘Yes, but I need to know if I should be a schoolteacher or a missionary.’ I say, ‘Well, just pick one, and then heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, cleanse lepers.’ Or they will say, ‘I just don’t know whether I should be married or should be single.’ I reply, ‘What do you want to be?’ ‘I really want to be married.’ ‘Then get married... and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, cleanse lepers.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil”
― Bill Johnson

“If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.”
― Bill Johnson

“Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.”
― Bill Johnson

“It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom. 10:17). Notice it does not say, faith comes from having heard. The whole nature of faith implies a relationship with God that is current. The emphasis is on hearing…in the now!”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“He arms us with purpose by giving us a promise instead of the answer. That way, we are forced to learn how to believe Him before the answer comes and then learn how to exercise His will in the circumstances that are contrary to the given promise. This is part of what it means to be a co-laborer with Christ. He labors, and we labor with Him.”
― Bill Johnson, Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth

“You are God’s idea, and He longs to see the treasure that is in your heart. As we learn to dream with God we become co-laborers with Him.”
― Bill Johnson, Dreaming With God: Co-laboring With God for Cultural Transformation: Secrets to Redesigning Your World Through God's Creative Flow

“In this case, the actual presence of the Spirit of God upon Jesus stirred up a hunger for God in the people. That hunger brought a change in their attitudes without their being told it should change.”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“God has hidden mighty and mysterious things for us, not from us.”
― Bill Johnson, The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind: Access to a Life of Miracles

“Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others.”
― Bill Johnson, Spiritual Java

“doing God’s will, eating the meat of the Word, is not listening to a Bible teacher, but going and doing what it says, especially as it relates to working in the harvest fields.”
― Bill Johnson, Spiritual Java

“God hostage to an unanswered question, something we don’t understand, like a healing that doesn’t come, and will not obey until he answers. I don’t have the right to do that. My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand. There is something that happens in the heart of a person that just says, ‘God, I want what you want. I want to see your Kingdom come. I want to see your purposes worked out in the earth. I”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“Faith does not come from our understanding. It comes from the heart. We do not believe because we understand; we understand because we believe (see Heb. 11:6). We’ll know when our mind is truly renewed, because the impossible will look logical.”
― Bill Johnson, Dreaming With God - Mendesain Ulang Hidup Anda dengan Aliran Kreatif Allah