Quotes by Patience Johnson

If God gives you a gift and you dont know what to do with it, it wont make you happy. Some of you God gave a wonderful husband but you cant make a home and some of you God gave a wonderful wife but you cant make a good husband. Some of you cant even unwrap the gift so that you can appreciate it.

Maybe what you need in your life is not the next level of accomplishment or the next level of accumulation but the next level of appreciation for what you have; that will set the stage to make a space for what you will accumulate in the future. ( a bit deep) Simply put thank God for now before setting the goal for tomorrow because if you grow in gifts and didnt grow in gratitude, you have gained nothing.

If you can feed in the presence of your enemies, if you can be blessed under the weight of burdens, when you praise God in pain, it is preparation for provision.

When you do away with God you become your own god, because you recognise no greater power in the universe than yourself.

I have graduated to the extent of not asking what is happening in my life because I trust the maker(God).

I have my priorities and I know my purpose. I do not Praise God because of my pain but I praise Him because of what the pain is producing.

When you praise God in pain, it is preparing you for provision.

The things I call crisis and all the things that were coming after me are all coming to serve the purpose of God in my life.

God made my enemies to serve me in my absence. God made the things that conspired to destroy me feed me into the place that He was preparing for me. I am a big girl and I can handle trouble and my enemies.

When you learn to have the heart of praise in the presence of your enemies, you set the table; if you can work with God in darkness enough depending on the light that He showed you in the last season, you will learn to read your enemies as a sign that it is time to eat. ( a bit deep). Whenever you sense a crisis in your life, note that your harvest is near.

God prepared a table before me in the presence of my insecurity, in the presence of my deficits, in the presence of my addictions, in the presence of my confusions, in the presence of what I have lost, in the presence of the threat that I wont make it, in the presence of my enemies, I am looking straight ahead.

Learn to eat with your enemies all around you but most of all thank God for his presence. Keep your eyes fixed to the presence of God in the presence of your enemies.

I have learned to thank God for what I cannot see, I have learned to trust God with what I cannot.

Do you know that you can be surrounded by all these blessings, all these relationships, goodness, provisions, opportunities? But if you dont know how to turn the blessing into praise, it will turn into pride and your life will never be filled with joy because your heart has holes in it.

Sometimes the fact that you cant sense God isnt an indication that He is not there. It is just an indication that you are hanging out in the wrong place.The cave is not a physical location, it is a state of mind.

You will always end up in frustration whenever you try to produce outside your purpose.

Sometimes God wraps destiny in what we perceive as just another day. The same day that Davids father asked him to go and deliver bread to his brothers in the field was the same day that God used him to bring goliath down. Take every minute in your life serious.

Real faith looks beneath the surface. Real faith knows that faith works sometimes in dark places. Real faith knows that sometimes in order to see a change, you will have to steer through your situation to really see it.

Gods perspectives requires persistence. To have Gods perspective in the world we live in requires persistence.

If you work by faith and not by sight, you will always see a sign. You have to develop a space of comfort to know that there is a difference between signs and sounds, it means God will tell you that He will make a change in your life but He wont show you anything to demonstrate the change for a little while because He doesnt want your faith to be in the change; He wants your faith to be in the promise, so that when the change is a bit slow in coming, you will know how to trust in Him while you wait for it to come to pass.