Craig Groeschel quotes - page 2

When you increase your focus, you decrease your options. Good things are not necessarily God things. (Craig Groeschel)
Here are a few questions to stir your vision: Why does your organization exist? What can your organization be the best in the world at? If you could do only one thing, what would it be? If you left your organization tomorrow, what would you hope would continue forever? What breaks your heart, keeps you awake at night, wrecks you?
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Seek God. Hear from God. Receive his vision. Let it overwhelm you. Consume you. Burden you. Tell the vision. Cast the vision. Communicate the vision. And watch it spread.
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It-owners know that setbacks can be setups for better things to come. They study their failures and learn from them.
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Your greatest ministry innovation could come from your greatest limitation - if you have a sincere passion to reach and care for people.
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Ministries that have it tend to be focused on a limited set of targets. They do a few things as if all eternity hinged on their results, and they do these things with godly excellence. Their vision is characterized by specificity. Selectivity. Exclusivity.
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As you seek God and he rekindles it in your heart, I believe he is going to speak to you.
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The it-rich are those who have chosen to face their fears rather than live with regrets.
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If there is any group in the world that should be motivated to make improvements, reflecting God's creative nature, it should be Christians.
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The best explanation I can give of what it is, is this: it is what God does through a rare combination of these qualities found in his people: Passion for his presence; A deep craving to reach the lost; Sincere integrity; Spirit-filled faith; Down-to-earth humility; Brokenness.
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If you don't have something you think you need, maybe it's because God wants you to see something you've never seen. (Craig Groeschel)
I believe that God makes it available to anyone who wants it. I believe he wants to give it to you and your ministry.
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Failing often can help a ministry experience it. Being overly cautious can kill it.
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Love overcomes obstacles.
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If you've ever been part of a ministry that had it, you knew you were part of something special. In other words, you knew it when you saw it. And it was an awesome work of God that couldn't be contained, couldn't be harnessed, and couldn't be explained.
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As long as you're afraid of intimacy and spiritual partnership, you won't likely experience it. To have it, you have to share it with each other. Just as there's no I in team, there's no it in independence.
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Those without it can be two-faced. Those with it are true-faced. There is no substitute for being transparent and real. The more real we are, the more likely we'll experience it.
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Instead of whining, "We can't reach certain people," with-it people exclaim with faith, "We will find a way."
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While many lament, "We don't have what it takes to make a difference," innovative leaders say, "God is our provider; we have more than enough."
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Have you hit an obstacle that appears impenetrable? Maybe God will guide you to see something that you couldn't have seen if he'd just removed the wall.
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Whenever you're tempted to whine about what you don't have, remember that God has given you everything you need to do everything he wants you to do. (Craig Groeschel)
What obstacle are you facing? Ask God for breakthrough thinking. Don't think about small changes. Think radically.
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For the sake of those who don't know Christ, think big.
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Don't let the rules of man stop you from following God. When he gives it to you, go with it.
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Don't get tricked into trusting your spiritual bells and whistles or you might become too slick, lose your edge, then lose it.
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