Quotes from Loren Cunningham

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

You never get bored with God in action.

We get caught in our boxes-but when we pray outside of them, ask God, the impossible CAN be done.

The Son of God had missionary supporters

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

Only by taking Jesus' example into every part of our lives will we be able to win in life.

We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.

To know God and to make Him known.

Hearing God is not all that difficult. If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice - after all it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening. After the what of guidance comes the when and how." (11)

We followed the Three Steps to Hearing God that I had first learned from Joy Dawson in New Zealand. First, we took Christ's authority to silence the enemy. Second, we asked the Lord to clear from our minds any presumptions and preconceived ideas. Third, we waited…believing He would speak in the way and in the time that He chose.

The Lord will lead us into victory, but success itself is the most dangerous obstacle to properly hearing the voice of God.

Guidance is first of all a relationship with the Guide.

Put your dreams on the altar. They will be resurrected into something even grander.

From the very first country I visited, I knew I was not on this trip just for sightseeing. I did enjoy all the new experiences, but I had a strange certainty that I was being guided toward something I could not yet see.

This is what hearing God is all about, isn't it, Loren? Getting to know Him better.

If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice--after all, it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice once and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening.

Elisha instructed the young man to go back to the place where he last knew he had it. There, at that spot, God gave the young man the tool he needed. Sometimes, Duncan said, we momentarily lose our axheads—our best cutting-edge tool for ministry, which is the clear voice of God. It helps to go back to the place where we last knew we had heard the sharp edge of God's voice.

I'd seen for myself how God's power was released after a time of cleansing, and I remembered that in every great historical move of the Spirit I had studied, every revival had experienced times of confession and deep repentance. I could see why, too. The cleansing season had set me free—the devil had none of my secret resentments and sins to hold over me anymore.

When Christian leaders act unjustly, it reflects on the character of God. Unbelievers watch and decide that if Christians are like that, their God must also be unjust.

Because females and males together complete the physical expression of God's image in humanity, the devil is promoting homosexuality and lesbianism.

If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.

Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.