We can't grow our faith on the deck of a ship. We can watch other water walkers, hear their stories and read their books, but ultimately, the only way we are going to grow our water-walking faith is to get out of the dang boat!

I have observed that radical faith is so convicting to doubters, the lukewarm, the halfhearted and the religious who have re-scripted the Bible in a way that requires them to live only in the realm of reason. The truth is, you have to either be the next one out of the boat or find some spiritual excuse to relieve your cowardliness.

Jack Taylor put it this way: an idol is something you have to check with before you say yes to God.

Perseverance is the ability to hold our course over time in the face of opposition.

When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.

, Even if the main people who influenced us were negative role models, as Christians, we now follow Christ as our example and hear the Holy Spirit calling us into our true identities. When we begin to act like royalty, issues that felt like mountains in our lives will become mere stepping stones to demonstrate our character.

You were saved when you believed in Jesus, but you were transformed when you realized He believed in you.

When we do what the Spirit has anointed us to do, we are not just helping people; we are also terrorizing the enemy. It is so important that we find our place of calling in life, and that we understand that each of us is born to be an instrument of God, filled with the Spirit of God, to do the works of God.

You were born to be amazing.