Outrageous Courage: What God Can Do with Raw Obedience and Radical Faith

After Jesus Himself, you can have no greater treasure than friends who will take a bullet for you and who are willingly to pour out any amount of time, resources, strength and affection for you. I would not be who I am and where I am today without these friendships.

These radical lovers of God live with their hearts set on the prize of knowing Jesus and joining Him in His divine exploits of supernatural courage, power and extravagant love. Because they live for an audience of One, the vast majority of their exploits are not played out on a stage, recorded on video or written in a book. These saints would never

One of the primary goals of this training is to help us align our desires and expectations with God’s desires and expectations for us and let Him define our successes, failures and assignments. It is only by embracing our Father’s goals and expectations that we run the race to win, for He designed the racecourse in the first place.

Though we pleaded with her not to leave, she went back to him and back to her old life. It was heartbreaking to see her make that choice, but in the end we just had to commit her destiny to the Lord and trust that her story was not over, even if our part in it was.

But love suffers long, and Jesus draws near to the brokenhearted.

“Spend yourself.” That was it. I got up and looked up the phrase in my concordance. Isaiah 58:10 says, “Spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed”

with spouses and family members and living with freedom and joy such as they had never known. For me, one of the main themes of this season was learning to live in the freedom of being a daughter who, like Christ, was responsible simply to see and hear what the Father was doing and join Him at His invitation—no more, no less. I was not to be deceiv

Through the simple assignment of giving milk to babies, God has been teaching my friends and me to build our lives in the realm of faith where we cannot simply hope for miracles, we must count on them. It is a life-or-death kind of faith.

demonstrates that true passion requires us to choose one goal above all others. Passion may have many manifestations, but it must maintain a narrow focus to capture its divine purpose. When conflict arises between our desires, we must prioritize our passions or we will find ourselves paralyzed by indecision. Thankfully, as Judy’s story shows, God’s