Quotes from Lisa Bevere

I don't need to roar, for I hold the power of the whisper. I don't have to be black or white ... for I am the color and beauty of creation!

The man's position is not up for grabs, just as it is not his to give away. The woman's place is not the man's for the taking, nor is it hers to forfeit. The two must stand together in their respective roles. What we have been given to guard, we should never yield to another.

How many parents have lost the hearts of their children because they forgot why they had them? It was never to control them but to provide an environment in which they would flourish. How many couples have lost their marriages because they forgot why they were together? They fight against each other rather than for their love. Do we grasp and wrestle with others for their roles because we lose sight of our own?

W]hat is considered weakness in one gender is often strength in the other.

It takes the heart of a warrior to pursue a lion with a lamb in its mouth.

No one launches a large-scale, systematic assault against something that's not considered a threat.

The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.

But don't imagine that always brave translates to never afraid.

Battles are the proving grounds of what you already have put into practice.

There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.

Satan had made it his aim to distract you from who you really are and what the purpose of your life really is. It is his focused objective to lure you out of the path of strength, life, and authority and into a course of intentional destruction.

Women are not a problem...they are an answer

Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.

Our God loves triumphing over what looks impossible; therefore, he calls an ambush without any means of escape "an opportunity"!

You see, counselors, teachers, and various organizations may all agree with you that you are handicapped, but God never will. He loves giving you the opportunity to face what you fear, because when you face what you fear you become fearless.

Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.

Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit.

Our hero status is not dependant on our human might or power or even our human spirit; it comes from the power of His spirit.

God is not looking for people who act like Christians. He wants us to be Christians! The word Christian means "anointed or Christlike one." Jesus did not go around "being good"; he went around "doing good" and releasing all who were oppressed. What has he anointed you to do?

God's word is a God sword.

Lovely One, if you dare to dream, you must be brave enough to fight.

You know you are with true friends when they lift, encourage, correct, and then spur you on.

Saul fell upon his sword to avoid suffering. Jesus stretched himself upon the cross to take away ours. Saul's suicide cheated his enemies. Jesus' sacrifice cheated death.

As awesome as life in Eden must have been like, our life in him will ultimately be far better.