Gregg Matte Quotes

All of us need people in our lives who love us and desire God’s best for us. A friend who is neither jealous of your success nor secretly glad for your failures but wants only to see God at work in your life is a true friend indeed.

When you cross paths with Jesus, you can’t help but walk away changed. I AM changes who i am.

We often assume that people with social, political or even spiritual status will be God’s first choice. But God does not look at the things that people look at. “Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart” (1 Sam. 16:7). Often, we assume the boss is the fix-it man. But a formal title or being the most noticeable does not set people apart to be used by God. He is looking for a heart that is willing to serve, not a résumé that proves previous service.

Jesus uses those who will slow down and listen up. When we place ourselves in such a position, we are usable in His hands. And when we are willing to be used, God does extraordinary work.

God is never limited by the boundaries of possible. Our culture has been infiltrated by technology and “latest, greatest” inventions. The danger is that we can become more amazed by technological advancement than with our God for whom nothing is impossible. We are settling for so much less than God wants to offer us. As consumers, we are blown away

Living the Christian life is difficult, especially in today’s culture. Unfortunately, we have left the miracles either with cable TV faith healers or tour guides in the Holy Land. God still wants to do the miraculous today, and He wants to do it in you and me!

For those of us who have a relationship with the Lord, it is a constant fight to discern His voice. Our culture shouts lies and sells us counterfeits that mimic life while only offering death. Like sheep, we are prone to wander away from God. At times, it is intentional and, at other times, it is because we don’t know any better. That is exactly why Jesus came to earth. Lost in our sin, we knew no way out. Jesus came as the Gate for His sheep, and through Him, we have everlasting life.

A story is told of a trip to the Holy Land in which the tourist group saw a flock of sheep being driven through town. As they watched, with digital cameras flashing, one sightseer asked the guide, “I thought the shepherd led the sheep from the front. Why is he in the back?” The guide simply replied, “Sir, that’s not the shepherd. That’s the butcher.” That’s Satan’s position. He drives and shoves us from the rear with reminders of our past, fears of our future and uncertainties in the present. He pushes through people and situations to lead us to the slaughter. Satan is the thief that comes to “steal, kill and destroy.

Darkness clouds our vision, but knowing Christ’s Word sheds light into our lives and gives us vision for the path ahead.

The call on our lives is not to bear fruit but to abide. If we abide, the fruit will take care of itself. Matthew 6:33 reminds us, “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” The question is not what we can do for Him but what can He do through us.

those who know His Word the best hear His voice the most. God’s Word is a powerful sword. The more you truly know the Bible, the more you will know the God of the Bible. Knowing God’s Word has the ability to change your life. As you understand what God’s Word says, you can make sense of what He does and, therefore, know Him more intimately.

There is a school of contemporary writers called the “new optimists,” which includes Steven Pinker, Hans Rosling, Matt Ridley, and many others. This best-selling tribe of feted intellectuals, writers, and TED talkers has one central point to make: “The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of human well-being and… almost no one knows about it,” says Pinker. “Every day we’re bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is… yet we’ve made more progress over the last one hundred years than in the first one hundred thousand,” says Gregg Easterbrook.

Knowing who God is transforms the way we see ourselves. When we know who He is, it changes who we are. For all of us, I AM changes who i am.

Faith and obedience lead to a deeper awareness of God at work in our lives when we don’t understand what He’s doing.

God specializes in fresh starts.

Ringing in the ears of evangelical theology is Martin Luther’s call to distinguish between law and gospel.74 His distinction was not between the Old Testament (law) and the New Testament (gospel). Rather, law is anything in Scripture that expresses God’s demands while emphasizing the inability of sinful human beings to live up to those standards (e.g., Jesus’s command to be perfect as God himself is perfect; Matt. 5:48). Oppositely, gospel is anything in Scripture that expresses God’s promises by emphasizing that Jesus has met all of his demands. Gospel, then, brings grace to rescue sinners awakened to their need by law. Evangelical theology, following Luther’s trajectory, would profoundly disagree with Catholic theology’s view of the New Law