A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
A merry heart is good like a medicine.
But I don't think people like in general what they see on TV.
But I just think that only God with judge a person's heart.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
God just does more than we could ask or think and the places have all been full, so we're excited about it.
God used me to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.
God wants to bless us where we are.
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years.
I believe God's favor is something intangible where you've got God's blessings on your lives.
I believe those are times of testing and I can tell you, God did prosper us more than we could ask or think.
I believe we kept a good attitude in the tough times when we weren't getting our way.
I believe you're sowing seeds for that when you're doing the right thing when the wrong thing's happening.
I don't go down the road of condemning.
I don't think abortion is the best.
I don't think I've ever preached a message on finances.
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
I don't want to just preach to the church and I just feel like I have a broader message.
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
I have always believed in God.
I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
I present the truth, and I say it every week: I believe it's a relationship with Jesus.
I talk about things for everyday life. I don't get deep and theological.
I think Bible principles are principles for life.
I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
I think one reason the church has grown is because we've changed with the times. I mean, the music is upbeat.
I think we need to live a holy and a Godly life.
I think we need to live a holy and a Godly life. But I think when you do that, I think it all works together.
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
I'd like to think that I can help everyday people who don't necessarily go to church.
I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
I'm not going to go around telling everybody else if they don't want to believe, that that's going to be their choice.
I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
I've never made political statements. The congregation is very racially mixed.
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
I've seen in the polls how Americans want to stand up for values. I think it reinforces the kind of the messages that we preach.
If it's impossible for us to please God without faith, we ought to understand what faith is.
If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.
If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
If you give, you will be blessed.
If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
It just seems like the more known we get, the more critics we have. But I don't apologize for anything.
It's easy to get negative because you get beat down.
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
It's not enough to just read it. It's not enough to just believe it. You've got to speak it out.
It's the same message that people were preaching hundreds and hundreds of years ago, we're just repackaging it.
It's up to us to stay in the attitude of faith.
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
My dad grew up in the Depression... It is not God's will for anybody to live where you can't support your family.
My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire.
Only God can look at somebody's heart.
People are discouraged, beaten down. Relationships, finances, health are probably the big categories.
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
So I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger.
The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
To me, we're marketing hope.
We like to target people who do not go to church today.
We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
We're in a society these days that we're so distracted or busy. It's harder to hold people's attention.
We've got to forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made.
What a disappointment to not enjoy every day while you're in the process of God changing you.
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
With our words we can predict what is coming. We can prophesy the future.
You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
You can be happy where you are.
You can be on welfare and be stingy to God, not a giver.
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
You've got to believe that God is in control of your life.
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