In the process of growth, God often gives us opportunity to retake tests. If we failed them the first time, He gives opportunity to retake the tests. The Israelites in the desert kept walking around the Sinai peninsula until they could pass the tests. The funny thing is, when the test comes back again, what really gets put to the test is the mindset that was created previously. If I failed the test the first time and came to the wrong conclusions as to why (i.e. like becoming bitter at God) or if I passed the test the first time but took credit for passing instead of realizing that it was His grace or empowerment that made it possible (although there is a process of yielding), I likely will fail again if changes are not made. I do not really find out what mindsets I have until they are put under pressure. What I know (in the biblical sense) has more to do with how I operate rather than what I have understood intellectually. The problem is, many take their opportunity to grow and use it to reinforce the wrong mindsets rather than see them as opportunities for promotion. Through the passing of the test, promotion - which comes from the Lord - opens.

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Here's a good quote:
"Poverty is more than not having something. It's a spirit that is always fearful of not having anything at all. The spirit of fear that affects the entire human race is so massive a force that even a person who has much still tends to think it will never be enough." -Jack Hayford p. 184 Glory on Your House (good book - I recommend it if you are wanting to learn to have the presence of the Lord rest on your life more)

Quotes

All of these quotes are from Bill Johnson and I found them on the facebook page for Bill Johnson One Liners.

The will of God never takes you to where the grace of God will not protect you!

If the value of something is the price we are willing to pay for it, we need to seriously consider our own value.

It's difficult to expect the same fruit of the early church when we value a book they didn't have more than we value the Holy Spirit they did have.

God doesn't hide things from us, he hides things for us.

Transformed people transform communities.

Powerless Christianity is not an option.

A man who has an encounter is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

Insecurity is wrong security exposed.

Discouragement is the mother of bad doctrine.

To draw near to God for ministry and not relationship is professional intimacy. What do we call those who are intimate as a profession?

When our understanding is unfruitful and events happen in life that we cannot explain and do not understand, if we are willing to give up the right to understand we can receive the peace that passes understanding.

If you understand everything going on in your Christian life, then you have an inferior Christian life.

Don't lower the standard of God's promises to your level of experience.

If you don't live by applause of men, then you'll not die by their criticism.

Revelation is intended to bring us into encounter ... if it doesn't ... is takes us deeper into religion.

The fullness of the Spirit of God is not measured in what you contain...it's illustrated in what you release.

It's not our job to ask for Revival, it's our job to carry Revival.

If You want to kill giants, follow a giant killer.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

A lot of people are just one encounter short of good theology.

If Jesus preached most of the messages that were preached last Sunday, He never would have been crucified.

If what you're doing for the Lord does not require courage, you need to re-examine your assignment.

Did you know that every disappointment is only temporary and that every victory is eternal??

If you don't run into the devil now and then you might be going in the wrong direction.

You know your mind has been renewed when the impossible seems logical.

He made this an insecure lifestyle apart from His voice.

If you're not depressed by small numbers, you won't be impressed with the large numbers.

Are we going to live in reaction to what hasnt happened or will we live in response to what he's doing?

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God's presence.

But Jesus didn't say to pray for the sick..He said to heal them.