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One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land QUOTES

One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land QUOTES

1 " Living in freedom means learning how to walk again—learning how to walk God’s way for a change—because, listen, you can be 100 percent saved and still spend the majority of your time in Egypt. Unbelievers aren’t the only ones who contribute to Egypt’s overcrowding. "

― Priscilla Shirer , One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land

2 " The taste of manna "was like wafers with honey" (Exod. 16:31, Num. 11:7)... It was indeed the "bread of heaven" (Ps. 78:24)... Just bcause the sharp, strong bite of their beloved Egyptian foods had become preferred tastes of choice in their mouths did not mean that nothing else had the power to satisfy them. In fact, God likely created the moist, sweet manna to serve as a marked contrast to their monster-breath favorites, those fire-breathing flavors that had so long grown delectable to palates poisoned by Egypt's influence. The purity of God's nightly manna against the harsh, high-heat quality of onions and garlic was not merely an ongoing gift of nourishment, but also the beginning of a long process to wean the Hebrews from their loves. It was a clear change of taste.
While the enemy works overtime to keep us addicted to past likes, God relentlessly shapes us through wise amounts of blessing and correction to make us want what's really good for us, till we can truly "taste and see that the LORD is good (Ps. 34:8). He refuses to offer us anything that would excite our prior obsessions, knowing that if we are ever to start living like free men and women, we need to start eating like it. "

― Priscilla Shirer , One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land

3 " Moses cried out to God, and God showed him a tree, Moses “threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet” (v. 25). In one swift move of vulnerability and obedience, Moses found God ready to act, relieving both the peoples’ thirst and their tired emotions. That which was bitter had been made sweet. Are you bitter because of the hand you’ve been dealt? Sometimes He’ll allow us to come face-to-face with an experience that could potentially breed bitterness, just so we can see His ability to work miracles in the way we feel. "

― Priscilla Shirer , One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land

4 " Through the wise, skillful words of this author, God was telling me that effective ministry could never be measured by the size of an audience, by the number of books I’d written, by the acclaim of the crowds, but only by the lives being changed as the Spirit of God rested upon me. "

― Priscilla Shirer , One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land