Quotes About Empowerment

YOU CANNOT CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, BUT YOU CAN CONTROL HOW YOU FRAME IT.

When God helps you overcome a destructive label, he'll often do what he did through Peter. He will take one of your greatest weaknesses and turn it into one of your greatest strengths.

God wants to renew our hearts and minds and to send us into his world as lights shining in the darkness. Like Peter, we can become convinced of the truth: namely, that we are not our sins. And we're also not what others have done to us.

But you are not his prisoner of war, unless you choose to be. Those days can be over. That's your call.

You are not what your parent, coach, teacher, grandparent, or the bully at school said you were or made you feel like.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

Though Satan makes strong men weak, God is in the business of making weak men strong. Your past isn't the most important thing. Your future is.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. —Jonatan Mårtensson 3.1 SPIRIT-LED, NOT

With God's help, I started to not only identify sin but also say no to it.

God loves to use people whom others believe are unqualified.

You are not a victim of your thoughts. You have the power through Christ to take them captive. As a result, you will find what you are looking for. You can believe the worst or think the best. You can find reasons to worry or reasons to have faith. You can live pessimistically, or you can possess life-changing faith.

He blesses us so we can be different.

If you think you're trapped, if you believe there's a lock on the door, you've bought into a lie. And it is the lie, nothing else, that is holding you back. Yet if you identify that lie, then you can remove it. You can replace it with the truth and be free. Your liberation is a simple two-step process: Remove the lie. Replace it with truth.

Paul wrote these words: "I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through [Christ] who gives me strength" (Phil. 4:12–13).

Today I get to experience God's strength when I am weak. He gives me everything I need to do what he's called me to do. Rather than a busy, bad day, I'm going to have a positive, productive one.

In that moment, my heavenly Father said, "You are not who others say you are. You are who I say you are. And I say you are called to ministry.

You are not who others say you are. You are who I say you are.

don't care how big they are, boys; they can't do anything if you get 'em up off the ground.

None of us can help you any more than you can help yourself—have you never thought that this

famous quote from the Lakota chief Red Cloud states that men do that which is difficult while women do that which is impossible

If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.

As Elijah's mantle fell on Elisha and as other prophetic disciples sought to emulate their mentors, so the ascending Jesus empowered his church with the Spirit to carry on his mission to the ends of the earth (1:9–11).

Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

I thought that having someone to love, having someone love me back, made me a stronger person. But it was the opposite. It made me weaker because it led me to believe that I couldn't survive without those things. And I spent so long afraid of being alone that I never did anything for myself. I never did anything with myself, which made it all the easier to believe I wasn't capable.