offensive? Maybe... hee hee

I love "oh snap" quotes. I've read and heard some lately that I'll share with you.

Bill Johnson said one day: "If you don't run into the devil every now and then you may be going in the same direction... Just a thought."
I thought that was pretty funny. If life is easy and you aren't really running into any devil like confrontations, you gotta wonder if you're really bothering him.
Satan is not God's opposite. He's the opposite of Michael the archangel. Satan is a created being, therefore God could eliminate him with a look, a point, a wink. But God doesn't. One might suppose that the greatest punishment for Satan is the very thing he envied out of God. Satan wanted to be worshipped as God, to be God. God cast him down to this earth, where God placed billions of people made in His image. Satan is surrounded by monuments to the great beauty of the one he wanted to overthrow. Additionally, as Christians, we have been given power and authority over Satan and his princes. They have nothing on us, because in Christ's cross and resurrection, they were disempowered. Colossians...

Here's another fun quote... this one by Kris Vallotton
"The Bible tells us that signs and wonders will follow those who believe. So when the church loses power, signs become something we nail to a stick and take to a gay parade, or a protest of some sort."
Wow. Kinda blunt, but isn't so much of the church today viewed through the eyes of people as a group of angry protesting hate mongers, who are ticked off with everything and everyone?
So much of the church today is walking powerless. And any church that begins to move in power tends to get labeled as a cult or weird. That's so strange to me, yet I was one of those people who labeled churches walking in the power of the Spirit as such not to long ago myself. Jesus showed love by taking care of people's needs physically, emotionally, and spiritually. He healed the sick, cast out demons, and preached the kingdom. Should we not follow the same example? I find it very rewarding to be in a culture that does the same thing Jesus did. It's amazing to me that I lived nearly 25 years as a Christian overlooking the miracles, the prophecy and such as something only Jesus and did b/c He was cool like that. Oh yeah, and the apostles too. I never seemed to notice the parts that talked about us doing it too.
Jesus said we'd do greater things than Him.
We have been conformed into the image of Christ glorified, not Christ on the way to the cross. That would be stupid if that were the case, what then would've been the purpose of the cross if we were to pay the same price as Jesus. That's why in John 7:39 Jesus couldn't give the spirit to them yet. As He IS so we ARE.

Good food for thought.

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