Bill Hybels Quotes

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Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Bill Hybels
The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

Bill Hybels
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.

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Our prayers can be more than empty wishes, vain hopes or feeble aspirations – but only when they are prayed from faith-filled hearts.

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The key is to practice praying - and to practice praying regularly, privately, sincerely and specifically.

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Our spirits, like our bodies, have requirements for health and growth. Some people don't want to pay the price of developing good spiritual habits.

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Supplications are requests that you make of God. And truly, nothing is too big for God to handle or too small for him to be interested in.

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God is no more intimidated by childish demands for instant gratification than are wise parents.

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God is righteous and just, holy and tender, responsive and sympathetic. He is willing—anxious even—to hear from you. Moreover, he is willing to act on your behalf.

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Don't let your prayers turn into a wish list for Santa Claus. Worship God and praise him when you come to him in prayer.

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The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.

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God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

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When I pray, I'm not just telling God my problems, but rather I'm turning over my biggest concerns to him. It's only when I've put them in his capable hands that I can go about my day in his strength and freedom.

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By forcing us to look closely at our requests, prayer purifies us.

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God-honoring prayers are not simply shopping lists. They are more than cries for help, strength, mercy and miracles. Authentic prayer should include worship, submission, requests, and confessions.

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There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.

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If you're tolerating sin in your life, my friend, don't waste your breath praying unless it's a prayer of confession.

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If Christ's followers aren't growing, it is because they are not making a habit of evaluating their lives. They don't step back and ask, "What's working and what's not working?"

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Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

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If the request is wrong, God says, "No." If the timing is wrong, God says, "Slow." If you are wrong, God says, "Grow." But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, "Go!"

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Sensing the carelessness and one-sidedness of our prayers, we start to feel guilty about praying. Guilt leads to faint-heartedness and that in turn leads to prayerlessness.

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Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

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One prayer routine that is balanced and easy to remember is found in the word ACTS, an acrostic whose four letters stand for adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication.

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If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.

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We don't take confession seriously enough. If we did, our lives would be radically different.

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Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.'

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If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.

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How would you feel if your prayer requests were made public, displayed on a billboard or marquee? "Dear Lord, make me famous. Make me rich."

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Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.

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People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules. If prayer is important to you, then you'll find time to do it.

Bill Hybels