50 Inspiring Bill Johnson Quotes
My life has been marked by Bill Johnson and his faithful ‘yes’ to Jesus.
I remember attending BSSM (Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry) and spending 3 years there in the school.
Getting to hear from Bill and just seeing him around the place was powerful and formative in my journey with Jesus.
Bethel Church is known for its spontaneous worship, miracles, healings, and presence of God. But when you spend time with the people and pastors, you are drawn in deeper by the culture, the honor, and the joy.
His passion for Jesus is contagious and his unwavering, steadfast belief that God is good, has transformed many people and ministries worldwide.
Here are some of the inspiring words he’s shared over the years from sermons and books.
50 Inspiring Bill Johnson Quotes on Healing, Faith, Miracles, and God’s Presence
- We will always reflect the nature of the world we are most aware of.
- Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.
- Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the devil.
- When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.
- The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.
- The purpose of God’s wondrous stories is to draw you into the passionate pursuit of more of His presence.
- If you don’t live by the praise of men you won’t die by their criticism.
- I can’t afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn’t have in His.
- Since you can’t imagine a place where He isn’t, you might as well imagine Him with you.
- It’s abnormal for Christians not to have an appetite for the impossible!
- In the Kingdom, peace is the presence of a Person.
- When our passion for God fails to find its expression in joy, it often finds its expression in legalism.
- God gives revelation to those He knows will do whatever He says.
- Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you’re attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.
- My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.
- Only enduring faith has access to the wonder of compound interest as it pertains to the answer.
- [To see revival] we need to pray for breakthrough in private, but then take risks in public.
- Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.
- Our hunger for revival must go beyond our desire for a move of God. Revival is the result of us hungering for God Himself.
- Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.
- Fear often looks like wisdom to those in unbelief.
- You know your mind is renewed when the impossible seems logical.
- Anything you think you know about God, that you can’t find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.
- My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.
- The more we live as citizens of Heaven, the more Heaven’s activities infect our lifestyles!
- The way you think either expresses or undermines faith.
- When He puts the resurrected Christ in you, He immediately expects you to conquer something.
- Don’t let what you didn’t get in your childhood keep you from what God provides for His children – a perfectly faithful Father.
- If you are confident in what God has called you to do, you will not be distracted by someone intimidating you.
- Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.
- If you watch what you think about, you won’t have to watch what you talk about.
- There can be no authentic relationship with God for people who prefer a mediator over and above personal encounters.
- Increased dependence on His presence can only result in His supernatural invasion into your circumstances.
- Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.
- Faith doesn’t deny a problem’s existence. It denies it a place of influence.
- Why do you think Jesus gave us a Comforter? He knew His ways would make us uncomfortable first.
- God is looking for the open door to provide His solutions for our problems. We open that door through prayer.
- Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They no longer work to fit into other people’s expectations; they burn with the realization of who the Father says they are.
- Any revelation that does not bring us into greater encounter only trains us to be more religious.
- If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won’t move many mountains.
- Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.
- We owe the world an encounter with God.
- Being willing to do what you are not qualified to do is sometimes what qualifies you.
- Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.
- Arrogance isn’t thinking too much of ourselves but thinking too little of others.
- Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.
- My heart can go where my head can’t fit.
- Faith offends the stationary.
- The farther you go with God the less you can take with you.
- It is inconsistent to have Jesus pay a price for healing and for us to believe it is not God’s intention to heal.
Bill Johnson Books
Bill has written a bunch of brilliant books that will inspire you to grow and deepen your relationship with God, become expectant and hungry for miracles, and to see the supernatural kingdom of God invade your world.
Here are just a few that we love.
- When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles
- Strengthen Yourself in the Lord: How to Release the Hidden Power of God in Your Life
- Dreaming With God: Secrets to Redesigning Your World Through God’s Creative Flow
- The Resting Place: Living Immersed in the Presence of God
- The Essential Guide to Healing: Equipping All Christians to Pray for the Sick
- Face to Face With God: Get Ready for a Life-Changing Encounter with God
- God is Good: He’s Better Than You Think
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