Chasing Daylight Chapter 6 Thoughts (Part 1)

Here are some quotes and thoughts that stood out to me from Chapter 6 of Chasing Daylight by Erwin McManus. Join the conversation at the end if anything sticks out to you…

• When God’s calling and promises are made clear to us, our response will shape how the journey plays out.

• God will give us victory in the battle, but He will not fight the battle for us.

• When you’re moving with God, you must move with an advance mentality. You move forward unless God tells you to stop. You advance unless God tells you to wait. There are certain things that you do not need permission to do. You’ve already been commissioned to do them. There are certain things that you do not need a calling to do. You’ve already been commanded to do them.

• Much of our religious language has been focused on the don’ts rather than the do’s. In the same way we act as if the primary word from God is Stop when it actually is Go.

• Sometimes confirmation comes in the midst of action, when there’s uncertainty we cannot always sit around looking for a sign.

• This is the intersection that we must cross: God begins with go, and we often begin with wait.

• When God says Go, we should move without reservation.

• God invites us to go in our own strength, trusting in Him and in our obedience receiving His strength.

• [From the story of Gideon] Is it possible that you have been fleecing your divine moments rather than seizing them?

• What would happen if we changed our way of thinking? If we heard the first word of Jesus in His Great Commission, Go, as all the permission we needed to do the will of God? How would your life be different if you worked from a giant YES rather than a giant NO? While there are moments when God steps in and calls us to a specific task or assignment, even without that kind of special directive, we are not left without a mission or a calling. Every follower of Christ has the prime directive of representing Him on this earth.