Steve Mcvey Quotes

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.

We must abide in Christ moment by moment, realizing that without His empowering presence the serpent of self-sufficiency will strike us, infecting us with it's poison.

whenever a person holds onto personal rights, he sets himself up for the tyranny of fear when those rights are threatened. The only way to be free to experience God's will is to go thruogh life with a loose grip on everything around us. He is the only security we have life - and He is enough!

To love others you must know how much you are loved.

... the way we perceive God affects everything else in our lives.

Paul says that in order to prove the will of God in our lives, we must become like Isaac. We must totally surrender ourselves to God, yielding to His purpose regardless of what it may be. Absolute abandon to God is the foundation in knowing His will.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” Take that thought

Some things in life you just aren’t going to be able to think your way through—so you might as well save yourself the stress by simply trusting your way through them.

There is no love apart from God’s love—and as His love fills your consciousness you won’t be able to contain it!

the New Testament model of a Christian is not one who dedicates his own work to God. Rather it is the story of God Himself doing the work through a person totally yielded to Him.

Our behavior does not determine who we are!

Their holiness didn’t have a thing to do with what they did or didn’t do.

Thanks be to God that Christ has set us free!

The Old Covenant stressed what the people had to do, but the New Covenant focuses entirely on what Christ has done on our behalf.

The finished aspect of the work of Jesus Christ is real. We don’t finish it by our faith. We simply experience it through believing.

The Incarnation of God in Jesus is the greatest moment that has ever occurred in time or eternity.

When somebody’s religious identity is being challenged, things are bound to turn nasty quickly.

C.S. Lewis was right when he said, “Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

The challenge to have more faith about a specific outcome is often nothing more than a religious promotion for positive thinking.

It’s important to remember that the verses in the Old Testament were addressed to the people of that covenant, and not to you.

The New Testament of grace is completely different than the one under which Israel lived in the narrative of the Old Testament Scriptures.

So we put ourselves in a dangerous place when we formulate concrete opinions about who God is without filtering our thoughts through Jesus.

It becomes a matter of faith in faith.

the entire Bible is written for you, but not all of it is written to you.

it is not enough to know merely what the Bible says. In fact, that can be dangerous. What is essential is to understand what the Bible means.

Focus on “the red letters” alone and you’ll miss much of Him in the Bible. From beginning to end, it’s all about Him!

The Holy Spirit of God didn’t inspire the Scriptures so that we can know about God. He wrote it to bring us into an experiential knowledge of God.

You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me…” (John 5:39).

How is the Old Covenant like the New Covenant? It isn’t!

When He [God] said, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear” (Hebrews 8:13).

In Christ, we are a new creation and are defined by His Life, not our bad behavior!

The Birthright of a Child of God God has already provided everything we need to be free in Christ

We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).

2 Corinthians 4:16: “Though the outward man is perishing, the inward man is being renewed day by day” (NKJV).

Having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross” (Colossians 2:15).

You have been made right with God by the finished work of Jesus Christ. The New Covenant is a covenant of grace. It’s all His doing, and not our own, that has positioned us in Christ.

Grace is the expression of Love Himself, and since He is infinite, it seems reasonable to assume that we will spend time and eternity discovering more and more about the vastness of the subject.

We read or study the Bible for one reason: so that we will encounter the Living Christ. The Bible is not an end unto itself. The Bible is the divinely inspired witness that brings us to Christ Jesus.

The flavor is not the important element. What really matters is the water. If th pitcher (Christian) is filled with water (Jesus), the flavor (personality) of th tea doesn't really matter. Some people will be drawn to Christ because of the appeal of one flavor, while other unsaved people will be more receptive to anothr. As long as they receive the Water of LIfe, what difference does the flavor make?

There is a division in the Scriptures between the two covenants, but the one constant seamless message of the whole Bible is the grace of our Father revealed through the Son by the ministry of the Spirit.

The Scripture says in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that the Spirit of God lives in you. Verse 17 says that “the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

God wants to bring us to the understanding that we weren’t saved to do something for God. We were saved so that we might know Him in intimate daily fellowship. Do good works have a place in the Christian life?

The truth is, we in our own resources cannot forgive. However, since Christ is our life and lives in us, we realize that forgiving is what we as holy, righteous, and loving people do. It is our very nature to do so.

When we come to the New Testament, we must understand how this new covenant that God has made is different from the old one. We have to see that, not only is the old covenant outdated, it has become completely obsolete.

Augustine, one of the Church Fathers, also commented on the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament when he said, “In the Old Testament the New Testament is concealed; in the New Testament the Old Testament is revealed.

Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30).

The idea that God does His part and we have to do our part in order to experience His blessings is one of the greatest misunderstandings that affects people today. It affects how we understand the Bible. It affects how we perceive God. It affects how we live our lives.

You have been set in the place of a child who is loved and accepted by the Father just as surely as Jesus Himself knows that love and acceptance. Your palce is the triune circle dance is as safe and secure as the place of Jesus for the staggering reason that you are in Him.

God’s covenant with Israel, known as “the Old Testament” or “Old Covenant,” called upon the people to do their part. God repeatedly told them that if they would fulfill their end of the covenant, they would be blessed, and if they didn’t, they would experience all kind of curses.

Understanding the Trinity is more important than many Christians realize. Why does it matter that He is triune? It matters because as three in one, our God is first and foremost relational. In the eternal realm, the Father, Son, and Spirit have always existed and forever will exist in a circle of intimate love.

Forgiveness. It’s a troubling concept to the morality police of this world. In the callous world of morality, meticulous records are kept that clearly reflect the debt everyone owes. But in the land of divine mercy, moral accounting is exiled to nothingness, the books are burned, and record-keeping is declared taboo. God wants you to live without self-consciousness about anything you’ve done that was a dishonor to Him. He has taken the dishonor of your sin upon Himself, and it is no longer yours to bear. To wallow in ongoing remorse about sin is to express the worst sort of insult toward the One who has removed your sins and forgiven you for having ever committed them in the first place.

To unlock your Bible so that you can understand its meaning and application to your own life, it is necessary to avoid reading the whole Bible through old covenant eyes that see rules to be obeyed. That’s not what the Bible is about, and you will miss the point of Scripture altogether if you read it like an Old Covenant Jew who is still under the Law.

The Father, Son, and Spirit already knew and enjoyed a perfect relationship, so why else would He purpose to create a species with which He might share this love? What could possibly motivate Him to want to expand the circle? Love - that is the only possible reason. Our God is a selfless, generous, other-centered, giving God. He didn't need you. He wanted you!

If you have seen your God through the lens of legalistic religion, you most likely have believed that God was warning them [Adam and Eve] that He would punsih them if they ate from the tree. Nothing could be further from the heart or intent of God. He wouldn't kill them - sin would kill them. God wasn't warning them about what He would do but about what sin would do to them.

When we focus exclusively on the love of God, when we see love as the totality of His being, are we leaving out something? To say yes is to insult Divine Agape. Love is His fundamental makeup. Everything that can be known of Him must be seen through the lens of agape, or we end up presenting a god with multiple personality. Jesus proved that God is pure love by coming into the world.

When we are facing the storms of life, we need to understand the importance of watching Jesus Christ. He inspires our faith, but even more, our faith originates from Him. He is our Faith. So then, faith isn’t something we have to work up from within ourselves. Instead, it is Someone who lives within us who wants to work out every detail of life’s journey. As we look at Him as our source of faith, we find a sense of that faith rising up within us.

The heart of our Creator is to bless you. Dead religion presents a freakish caricature, a pseudo-god who is reluctant to bless his creatures unless they toe the line of impeccable moral behavior and tireless service to him. But the authentic God of the Bible blessed Adam and Eve immediately [Genesis 1:27-28] - before they worshipped, before they served, before they prayed, before they displayed any kind of action at all. The first divine act toward humanity tells us so very much about Him.

When people form their opinion about God from what they hear from contemporary legalistic religion, it's no wonder they conclude that God is a cranky, old, bookkeeping, judgmental, demanding deity who is more interested in people's behavior than anything else. It would be easy to see how a god like that would be angry much of the time. Sadly, people who hold that view of God impose it on the Bible and interpret the Bible to present a God like that. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm not saying that our God is a milquetoast, a mild-mannered god who can be managed. He's no kitten, that for sure.

If you have the impression that I am minimizing the place of the Bible in the life of the Christian, you are missing my point. I know the Bible speaks about the importance of feeding from God’s Word daily. However when a person’s goal is simply to read the Bible, he isn’t seeing the big picture. We should read the Bible because we want to know Christ in a more intimate way, not just to fulfill a religious duty. Nobody in the New Testament was more committed to studying the Bible than the Pharisees. They could quote long passages from memory. They knew the content of their Bible because they pored over it daily. But Jesus had a word to say about their kind of Bible study: “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal

God is pure love personified, and everything about Him must be understood from that vantage point. No consideration of any subject related to Him should be excluded from that.

Боль является частью культурной канвы этой короткой земной жизни, и никакое количество веры не сможет избавить нас от нее.... Тот факт, что кто-то является христианином, не освобождает его от проблем. Иисус Сам сказал: "В мире будете иметь скорбь; но мужайтесь: Я победил мир." (Ин. 16:33). Вера во Христа не изолирует нас от больно жалящего опыта жизни. Тем не менее, она позволяет нам решать проблемы с уверенностью, что Его любящая забота проведет нас через эти сложные обстоятельства.

Пребывая в болезненных обстоятельствах, мы все равно можем испытывать близкое общение с Богом... наши обстоятельства не являются показателем Божия отношения к нам. Если мы думаем, что ситуация, в которой находимся в данный момент в жизни, характеризует Его любовь к нам, то когда придут неприятности, мы впадем в уныние и подумаем, что Бог оставил нас.

Верить в то, что упование на Христа оградит нас от страданий, значит не понимать того, как устроена жизнь.

Бог использует опыт нашего пребывания в пустыне для того, чтобы вытрясти из нас все, кроме Себя. Ложь о том, будто бы Богу все равно, что с вами происходит, может заполонить ваш разум, - но это не так! Он настолько вас любит, что, если нужно, использует страдания, дабы в ваших взаимоотношениях вы зависели от Него.

Если бы мы могли полностью понять Бога и Его пути, то наш разум смог бы вместить Его, а Бога нельзя вместить.