Quotes by Steven Furtick
Steven Furtick (b. 1980) — Pastor, Autor · Baptistisch, charismatisch geprägt · USA
Steven Furtick (* 1980) ist ein US-amerikanischer Pastor, Bestsellerautor und Gründer der 2006 entstandenen Megachurch Elevation Church in North Carolina. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch seine dynamischen Predigten und das international erfolgreiche Musikprojekt Elevation Worship, während evangelikale Theologen ihm eine stark auf den Menschen zentrierte Bibelauslegung und theologische Unschärfen vorwerfen. Für Bibelleser bieten seine Texte rhetorisch pointierte Ermutigung im Alltag, erfordern jedoch angesichts seiner Nähe zu Elementen der Wort-des-Glaubens-Bewegung eine eigenständige theologische Einordnung.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Grace & Redemption, Meaning & Identity, Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Courage & Strength, Temptation & Struggle, Guidance & God's Will, Love
Quotes by Steven Furtick
What I struggle with is believing that God loves me, not just because He has to, but also because He wants to.
Steven Furtick
God knows everything about you—including the ugly parts, the broken parts, and the dysfunctional parts—yet he still believes in you. He still has a future and a hope for you.
Steven Furtick
True freedom in Christ comes when you realize you have nothing to prove to anyone, because in Christ, God fully approves of you.
Steven Furtick
He deals with us, not according to what our sins deserve, but according to what His love decided—on the cross.
Steven Furtick
The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.
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What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.
Steven Furtick
If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.
Steven Furtick
Maybe God wants to do something beyond your abilities, and he is far less intimidated by your failures and limits than you are.
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Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from calling your name and setting you apart. He placed you on the earth at a certain time for a pre-decided purpose.
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Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.
Steven Furtick
Gratitude begins where our sense of entitlement ends.
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God performs the most impressive feats through the most unimpressive people.
Steven Furtick
The world of what-ifs is a black hole, and it will suck your joy, peace, and hope into its vortex if you venture near its vicinity.
Steven Furtick
Satan’s main job isn’t temptation. It’s accusation.
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The Enemy does his best work in the darkness of our ignorance and speculation. He hammers away with what-ifs in the workshop of thoughts we are too afraid to face.
Steven Furtick
Enemy can’t do a thing to diminish God’s promises—that ability is decidedly beyond the limits of his power. So instead he lures you into places where your perspective of God’s promises will be diminished.
Steven Furtick
When you have that affirmation from someone who knows you completely and loves you anyway, the world doesn’t have a medal big enough or shiny enough to tempt you. The spirit of comparison and competition is broken, because you know you have a higher calling.
Steven Furtick
Our sin is our personal responsibility, but in Christ it is no longer the center of our identity.
Steven Furtick
A believer who is equally convinced of these two realities—sin is serious, but Christ is enough—is the Enemy’s worst nightmare.
Steven Furtick
Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my perhaps.
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The problem comes when we go beyond confessing our sin (which means agreeing with God about it) and begin defining ourselves according to the sin.
Steven Furtick
You can spend your life clutching and clawing and fighting, but what you really need is for God to grab you. For grace to grasp you.
Steven Furtick
The only way God can show us He's in control is to put us in situations we can't control.
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Regardless of what you see looking back at you while you brush your teeth, I can tell you with zero hesitation that to God there is nothing ordinary about you.
Steven Furtick
When you have a dream in your heart, but no earthly idea how to make it happen, keeping your faith intact is a full-time job.
Steven Furtick
Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.
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If you think you have to swap unworthy for worthy, you will bang your forehead against a self-created wall for the rest of your life, and you’ll never get any closer to your goal. But once you realize that God’s acceptance overrules your unworthiness, you can instantly find peace.
Steven Furtick
The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.
Steven Furtick
You don’t have to sing a single note to get God—or anyone else—to notice you.
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No act of service is insignificant when done for the most significant purpose in the universe: proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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After all, you haven’t fully met you yet. But God has. He met that version of you because he made that version of you. The truth of you is still unfolding to you, but it is fully known by God.
Steven Furtick
My soul sometimes feels like a Twitter feed where I’m following a million of the most annoying people ever, and I can’t find the Unfollow button.
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Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.
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I’m not raising my kids to survive the world. I’m raising them to change it.
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The more deeply we reinforce our identity in Christ, the more fortified we will be against the onslaught of opposing voices in our lives.
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When you discover who God is, you discover who you are. And when you discover who you are, you no longer have to struggle with the insecurity and self-promotion that define much of society. You no longer have to strain to measure up, to qualify. You are free to be yourself.
Steven Furtick
I will not let the discouragement of what I’m going through make me forget the benefits of belonging to the God who has been so good to me. He has saved me, blessed me, forgiven me, restored me, satisfied me, healed me, crowned me, and renewed me.
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Since God authored this day and He knows the end from the beginning, you might as well relax and enjoy the plot twists.
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The serpent gets nervous when we start challenging the doubts, dysfunctions, and insecurities his questions have propagated in our lives.
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More can be accomplished in a half hour of prayer, worship, and listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit than in a month of strategizing on our own.
Steven Furtick
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Sources: christianity.com, relevantmagazine.com, premierchristianity.com, youtube.com
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