Megan Summers

“I love you' means many things,' she said. 'It is like that sparrow.' She pointed to a tiny bird flying across the path of the setting sun into the pine trees. 'If love comes to us, we must let it land. But we must also be prepared to let it go.”
― Lucia Jang, Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

“What most intrigues me is that Jesus talks about his power as if he wasn't in control of it, like it's reflexive. He speaks of it passively: 'I perceive that power has gone out from me.' Aren't we talking about the sovereign God? Was Jesus not sovereign over the release of his power? Of course he was. But I believe the story was told this way to show that Jesus's response to faith is so reliable, it might as well be an involuntary reflex. When you reach out to Jesus in faith, he responds. It's as consistent and reliable as a reflex. The reverse is also true. Until we reach out in faith, he will not release his power. You can be around him, pressing in on him, but until you reach out to him in faith like that woman, you won't release his power.....Few things are clearer in scripture than the reliability of Jesus's response to faith. Faith activates a power from God, a power withheld until we believe."

"This is not to say that we control God with our faith, but that in his sovereignty he has conditioned the outpouring of his power on the exercise of our faith. When we trust him, he moves. When we don't, he doesn't. It's not long drawn out prayers that coerce Jesus to move. It's faith." - JD Greear, Not God Enough”
― JD Greear

“Boro replied, “Let those believe who want to believe. We’ll stay as we are.”
― Don Richardson, Peace Child

“Christianity, it's been noted, makes for a terrible hobby. It's inconvenient, costly and cumbersome. If you're going to walk with God, the only enjoyable way is to go all the way. - Not God Enough, J.D. Greear”
― J. D. Greear