If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.
Sometimes we're so busy trying to get things and at the end of the day, all we need is love.
Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.
Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas.
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.
Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.
I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.
You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of worship, when you really connect with the invisible, almighty God.
No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.
It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh!...Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah!
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don't apply some of the
medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.
Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.
If you don't find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you're teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.
My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I.
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
I think the amazing thing about Gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.
Know when your space is too small for you...and you have to birthed to the next level!
God's not going to promote you because you have a dream, He's going to promote you because you've maximized where you are so now you're ready to go to the next level.
When you are talking about moral issues you are talking about same-sex marriage, which has been relegated over to the states. It's no longer a federal issue and yet, we are dealing with it like it's a federal issue but for a large degree it has become a state issue.
You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!
Worship strengthens you. It gives you a sense of God's presence and ultimately His protection and provision.
No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.
Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.
It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription!
As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.
You'd be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look.
I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll -- whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.
I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.
What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.
In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.
The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.
Somebody is n the hospital begging God for the opportunity u have right now. Step into your moment.
The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.
When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.
Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life's destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be.
Surround yourself with those who won't compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
Worship, from the Latin word meaning worth-ship, is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.
I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to the chagrin of the people that we seek to serve.
Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.
I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.
Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.
Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.
Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.
When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.
Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to this man than great music. You will feel the beat of his heart and faith.
Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the class or not, there is always something else to learn.
Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you've been given.
When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.
I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.
Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.
Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.
Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.
It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.
There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.
I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.