Bill Johnson

“Whatever you gain through self promotion you’ll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.” ~ Bill Johnson

“We need to remain childlike. Children don’t dream of being insignificant.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you’re attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.” ~ Bill Johnson

“My history shouts the power of the blood of Jesus. My presence demonstrates the absolute love, affection and purpose of God for my life. My future is drawing me into a hope-filled life that has a purpose of saying, ‘on earth as it is in Heaven.’” ~ Bill Johnson

“The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.” ~ Bill Johnson

“I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The ‘renewed’ mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Faith is not opposed to the mind. It’s superior to the mind which is why the renewed mind enhances faith.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!” ~ Bill Johnson

“The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can’t explain.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Living in regret will become your biggest regret.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Corporate greed is killing America, and that’s what we battling at Boeing.” ~ Bill Johnson

“It is INCONSISTENT to have Jesus pay a price for healing and for us to believe it is not Gods intention to heal.” ~ Bill Johnson

“As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.” ~ Bill Johnson

“If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won’t move many mountains.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people’s lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.” ~ Bill Johnson

“We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Jesus did not live in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Skills can be taught. It’s tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.” ~ Bill Johnson

“True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The most simple way to stay encouraged is to feed your heart on what He is doing, not on what He hasn’t done. If you can’t see what He is doing, feed on what He has done in the past.” ~ Bill Johnson

“If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we’ll question who He is when He doesn’t do what we’ve asked.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.” ~ Bill Johnson

“When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.” ~ Bill Johnson

“We don’t have the capacity to exaggerate God’s goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.” ~ Bill Johnson

“God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn’t want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.” ~ Bill Johnson

“If you make history with God, He’ll make history with you.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source. So, before God, I’m an intimate. Before people, I’m a servant. Before the powers of hell, I’m a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.” ~ Bill Johnson

“In His mercy, God gives us the level of revelation that our character is prepared to handle.” ~ Bill Johnson

“A heart of faith is anchored in the unseen.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.” ~ Bill Johnson

“I can’t afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn’t have in His.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn’t said.” ~ Bill Johnson

“God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.” ~ Bill Johnson

“So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God.” ~ Bill Johnson

“In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It’s a different day.” ~ Bill Johnson

“When I live out of discipline, I’m admired – When I live out of passion, I’m contagious.” ~ Bill Johnson

“When you’re willing to do what you’re unqualified to do, that’s what qualifies you.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.” ~ Bill Johnson

“There’s something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.” ~ Bill Johnson

“There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Jesus didn’t accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.” ~ Bill Johnson

“God doesn’t have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.” ~ Bill Johnson

“You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.” ~ Bill Johnson

“One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.” ~ Bill Johnson

“A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.” ~ Bill Johnson

“We don’t believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.” ~ Bill Johnson

“We owe the world an encounter with God.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Heaven invades earth when there is agreement here to what exists there. Honestly, that’s how it happens.” ~ Bill Johnson

“You won’t have to watch what you say if you watch what you think.” ~ Bill Johnson

“We reign with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king, all for the benefit of the people around us. Rulers in God’s Kingdom never rule for their own sake. It is always for the sake of others.” ~ Bill Johnson

“All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.” ~ Bill Johnson

“We always become like the one we worship!” ~ Bill Johnson

“Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.” ~ Bill Johnson

“It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.” ~ Bill Johnson

“For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Great faith doesn’t come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Anything you think you know about about God, that you can’t find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Listen to His voice, not to your worries. Trust in Him, not in your fears. Allow the continual influence of His transforming Kingdom to flow through your spirit.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn’t have, than the Holy Spirit they did.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The best way to prepare yourself for your own miracle is to rejoice in somebody else’s.” ~ Bill Johnson

“A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Faith doesn’t deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.” ~ Bill Johnson

“No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Passion produces the best discipline.” ~ Bill Johnson

“My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.” ~ Bill Johnson

“To have divine favor on your life means you’ll attract extraordinary opposition.” ~ Bill Johnson

“You have authority over every storm you can sleep in.” ~ Bill Johnson

“If you can’t be free from sin until you die, then Jesus isn’t your Savior, death is.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil.” ~ Bill Johnson

“In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand.” ~ Bill Johnson

“When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn’t demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.” ~ Bill Johnson

“What is the will of God? On earth as it is in heaven. If it doesn’t exist there, it’s not supposed to exist here. If it does exist there, it’s supposed to exist here.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Any revelation from God’s Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford ‘form without power,’ for it creates Christians without purpose.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The only true worship is extreme worship, and only extreme worship brings extreme results – transformation.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.” ~ Bill Johnson

“While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Let me put this in my words: Solomon asked for a hearing heart, and God said, Okay, I’ll give you wisdom. The implication is that wisdom is not just a deposit made into somebody who now has all the answers. It implies that the ability to hear the voice of God is the key to wisdom. Wisdom, then, is a relational fruit.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Most closed heavens for the Christian are between his ears. Believing a lie empowers the liar.” ~ Bill Johnson

“We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Once you’ve left the concept of family, you’ve left the concept of kingdom.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Transformed people transform cities.” ~ Bill Johnson

“A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they’re not.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.” ~ Bill Johnson

“God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Don’t let your past dictate your future.” ~ Bill Johnson

“It’s a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.” ~ Bill Johnson

“We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.” ~ Bill Johnson

“You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.” ~ Bill Johnson

“If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you’re developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?” ~ Bill Johnson

“If we are not careful, the steady stream of bad news will cloud our awareness of what God is saying and doing. Deception sets in that positions us to live and act defensively instead of continuing to respond to God’s leading.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.” ~ Bill Johnson

“I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.” ~ Bill Johnson

“God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.” ~ Bill Johnson

“People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.” ~ Bill Johnson

“I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.” ~ Bill Johnson

“The favor of God does not bless self-promotion.” ~ Bill Johnson

“If you don’t live by the praise of men you won’t die by their criticism.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don’t work to fit into other people’s expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are.” ~ Bill Johnson

“Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God.” ~ Bill Johnson