Bill Johnson Quotes

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.

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.

You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn’t owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you’re going to have to give up your right to understanding. It’s called trust.

God has called us into a place of tenderness, when nobody is looking, when there are no great decisions to make, when it’s just him and me in a hotel room, with no one to pray for, no one to preach to. When it is just two people in a room, that’s where you learn. That’s where you learn his heartbeat. That’s where you learn the presence. That’s where you learn the voice. It’s in the moments when nobody is watching, nobody is evaluating how good you’re doing. When it is just you and him.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.

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.

People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones who thrill the heart of God, become the targets of those who never fail because they seldom try.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

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.

The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

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.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

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

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

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

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. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus.

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.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.

We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.

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.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

Jesus didn't accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains

We've not been assigned to hang out until He returns ”we've been given a message and a power that completely revolutionizes life. Why would anyone want to get up in the morning and not shape the course of world history?

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.

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious?

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.

Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.