.“I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.”
“I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.”
“Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‘Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.”
“You are victors, not victims!”
“Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.”
“You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.”
“I really believed that fear is contagious.”
“Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.”
“The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.”
“God’s desire is that we excel.”
“Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.”
“If you give, you will be blessed.”
“We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.”
“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 have enough people against you… be for yourself.”
“I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.”
“God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.”
“Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.”
“It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.”
“Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.”
“Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.”
“If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.”
“I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.”
“Life’s too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can’t please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.”
“I don’t have all the answers.”
“God always wants us to be growing.”
“You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.”
“I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.”
“Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.”
“The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.”
“Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.”
“You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‘Great, I got another one out of the way’ Keep moving forward.”
“The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.”
“There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.”
“You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life.”
“Don’t live worried, frustrated or upset because of what somebody did or what didn’t work out. Come back to a place of peace. It’s not going to work against you; it’s going to work for you.”
“When you go through enough dark places, you don’t complain about little things. You don’t lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don’t get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You’ve been through too much to let that sour you.”
“No matter what’s happening, choose to be happy. Don’t focus on what’s wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things.”
“It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.”
“Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. The last thing they need is for you to make matters worse by responding angrily.”
“I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.”
“The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.”
“Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!”
“You can be happy where you are.”
“So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.”
“If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.”
“A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.”
“Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.”
“People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.”
“You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.”
“In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.”
“It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.”
“Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.”
“It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.”
“Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.”
“Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.”
“When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.”
“God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.”
“We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.”
“I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.”
“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.”
“You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.”
“The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.”
“God wants to bless us where we are.”
“There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.”
“I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.”
“Nothing in life has happened to you. It’s happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.”
“I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.”
“If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.”
“I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.”
“If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.”
