Last evening, my family attended the Encounter Tour 2019 featuring Lysa TerKeurst and Levi Lusko. We purchased tickets for this event along with a VIP pass for my daughter as part of her Valentine’s Day gift. The pass included a special Q&A with Lysa, Levi, and his wife Jennie prior to the evening sessions. It was just an INCREDIBLE evening!!!
If you are unfamiliar with these two, let me give you a quick bio. Lysa is president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times best-selling author of Uninvited, The Best Yes, Unglued, Made to Crave, and 16 other books. Each year, she is a featured keynote presenter at more than 40 events across North America, including the Women of Joy Conferences and the Catalyst Leadership Conference. Lysa has a passion for equipping women to share their stories for God’s glory through Proverbs 31 Ministries’ annual She Speaks Conference and writer training program, COMPEL: Words That Move People.
Her session centered around her new book It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered. This is a must-read for any Christian leader. Lysa is a gift to the Kingdom of God.
Levi Lusko is the author of the bestselling books Through the Eyes of a Lion and Swipe Right. He is also the lead pastor of Fresh Life Church – a multisite church located in Montana, Utah, Oregon, and Wyoming that he and his wife Jennie pioneered in 2007. Levi travels around the world speaking about Jesus. His session centered around his new book I Declare War: Four Keys to Winning the Battle with Yourself.
The following are 51 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Lysa TerKeurst And Levi Lusko Encounter Tour 2019:
The Encounter Tour 2019 VIP Q&A Session
- Life is hard. There are real issues we face. – LT
- I really in difficult times cling to God’s promises but I also know there’s a process to the promise. – LT
- We don’t want to get over this. We want to get through this. – LT
- In the valley is where everything fertile is. – LT
- God allows our pain to unfold over time. – LT
- We live in the middle place – the process of the promise. – LT
- God’s not responsible for any evil… All of what God is overcoming is what He didn’t want to happen in this world. – LL
- God is sabotaging suffering, sabotaging evil. – LL
- You have more clarity in the rearview mirror than when you’re going through it. – LL
- In the darkest days it was more crucial for me to find little things to hold on to. – LT
- My feelings are indicators, not dictators. – LT
- I want to trade my will for Thy will because He will. – LT
Levi Lusko Main Session
- How to face your most dangerous opponent, your most sneakiest opponent. That is you.
- We are all capable of sabotaging our own success.
- I am my own worst enemy and I suspect I’m not the only one.
- God will never do for us what we can do by ourselves.
- If we got eight hours of sleep a day and drank eight eight-ounce glasses of water a day and started the day with eight hours with Jesus, our days would be a lot better.
- Contagious yawning has been linked to empathy.
- To be a wolf, it’s the perfect combination of being a fierce warrior and tender nurturer.
- You need to mind your head.
- Watch what thoughts you allow in your head. Where the head goes the body will follow.
- You don’t have to think everything you feel but you will feel everything you think.
- Negative thoughts can’t lead to a positive life.
- Use your words.
- Words can bring life or death to a situation.
- How are you choosing to use your words when you speak to yourself? Too often, we are critics to ourselves rather than coaches.
- Use your words to bring fruit and life to people… and (also) bring life to yourself.
- If Jesus is the Lord of your life He should be the Lord of your lips.
- Carry a big stick.
- The greatest mistake you can make is to try to do God’s work without God’s power.
- The devil can’t burn what’s already burning.
- The shredded painting was never a surprise to the painter. Your Father sees you as a masterpiece.
- He has a plan to work every shredded piece of our lives into a masterpiece. He can do incredible things through the power of Jesus Christ.
Lysa Terkeurst Main Session
- Our God doesn’t want to be explained away. He wants to be invited in.
- Alarmed Brian resolved.
- My God is good to me and my God is good.
- I think it’s easy to trust someone who is just simply honest.
- In my life it’s extremely crucial where I fix my eyes.
- We will steer where we stare.
- Never take your eyes off the Master. The Master knows things you don’t know.
- The most powerful prayer I know is just to speak the all-powerful name of Jesus in the situation I’m in.
- When you’re in a time of alarm you need people around you who will speak more words over you than to you.
- Our job is to be obedient to God. God’s job is everything else.
- Never forget the humanity when we read God’s divinity.
- We assume positions of humility are a great weakness but they are actually signs of great strength.
- Humility and humiliation are not that different. One laid down and the other tripped and fell down. But both were down there.
- God’s love is not based on us but placed on us and it’s the place where we should live.
- The battle doesn’t belong to us. The battle belongs to God.
- The fiercest weapon I can send ahead is the worship of my covenant-loving God.
- With God redemption is always possible even if reconciliation is not.
- You (her husband Art) are the bravest man I know because you came home.
Once again, what an amazing evening. I could not think of a better Valentine’s gift to get my daughter.
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