Embracing God's Push for Abundant Living

1) "See, Jesus says, when you actually hear my voice, if you actually could hear me, what you would hear me saying is, go for it. I have a hundredfold lies for you. And so we think ten acts in ten years is a good place to start. And that's the good news. If you ever felt like if God were to talk to you, he would just put you back in your place, let me just remove that lie from your brain right now. No, he wouldn't. He wants to push you out of the place you put yourself in and give you more life than you ever thought was possible." [01:15] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "The point is this. If you haven't been pushed by God, you have never heard him. It's the language he speaks. There isn't any other language. And you might be like, well, Kyle, isn't God a loving father? Yeah, he is. He doesn't push you down. I think that's the misperception of God, is that he's trying to crush you down and put you in your spot. He's trying to push you down. No, he's trying to push you out of the places where you've settled for less than what he has for you. He's not the Wwe wrestler jumping off the top rope, doing a moonsault, just elbow dropping to the mat. He's not that. He wants to pick you up and push you to more. See, his push is one direction. His push is always towards his promise. Always, never anything. Always towards his promise." [08:36] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "Your life is and always will be limited in the places you refuse to be pushed. It just will. So if you listen to me, don't listen to fear. Don't listen to the voice of fear. Listen to God and let him push you to a place you could never imagine on your own. You know, none of those people who had that bad report, none of the people who decided to stay passive ever got the promise. None of them did. They wait till they all die off. And then the two guys, the two spies who said, no, I think we can take him, Joshua and Caleb, they lead the people of Israel into the promised land, and God gives them this charge. As they're getting ready to go, Joshua one nine says, have I not commanded you be strong and of good courage? Do not be afraid nor be dismayed, for the Lord, your God is with you." [13:39] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "Every national awakening begins with personal revival. Now. Okay? Why would we spend all that time making that video and all that time having you watch it? Why would we do that? Because too many of us believe that can't happen. Too many of us think that can never. America's too far gone. Most Christians that I hear, that's how we talk about our country, all right? We're too far gone. We're just, you know, just kind of get rid of it. There's actually a movement, by the way, in the church where instead of going after people, the wisdom says actually be a fortress church, just kind of close your walls and kind of hunker down and try to preserve and protect. But the problem is, that's not the story of the Bible. And what history says is it's happened before. Why can't it happen again? Why not us and why not now? That's what we're saying. What would happen in your life if you let God push you? What would happen in our nation? What would happen in your family? Let him push you." [30:12] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "The push, all this pushing, right? All this pushing. Our goal is not actually for you to hear from us. Not the goal. Our goal is to push you to hear from God. That's the goal. Now, there's a fundraising playbook. You may not know this playbook. There's a fundraising playbook. It's called the thermometer method. Now, in the thermometer method, when you have a goal to raise funds, what you do is you set the goal right. Maybe you've seen this outside of a firehouse or somewhere. Somewhere raising money. And you make the thermometer, and then as people give money, you put red paint on there, the mercury hit the goal, whatever that is. It's how you raise money, and you go around to people who are your donors, and you give them a fair share checklist. You go, hey, you know, we're trying to raise whatever it is. And so we're kind of hoping and thinking that maybe you could give us this much money. That's the actual playbook. That's not what we're doing. What we're doing is the thermostat. We're saying, what would happen if we let God grab hold of each of our hearts and just push that temperature higher? What would happen? And the way that happens, by the way, is that we hear from him." [32:12] (70 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "The reason that I have such strong faith and I don't worry, which people tell me they're like, Kyle, it's weird to how much stress you don't have. You know, they're like, do you really not get stressed out? And I go, no, not really. I really don't. And the reason is because of the past financial campaigns that I've gone through at crossroads. I let God push me financially. And what I found at the end of it was God has so much more. He's so much more abundant and kind and amazing that I don't have to worry about anything. And so I don't. There's a verse in the Bible where Jesus actually says, he says, do not worry. And I know that can be very frustrating, right? Do not worry. Gosh, I wish it was that easy. Well, it's a command that you won't understand unless you've allowed God to push you and you've seen his ridiculous, abundant provision. But when you do, you're like, I get it now." [40:20] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "You can have a push free life. You really can. That's an option. You can totally have a push free life. You can stay where it's comfortable, where it's known, where it's safe, where everything's predictable. You can totally have a push free life. Just don't expect to go very far, that's all. On the other hand, if you choose to lean in, I believe God has more for you, and not just a little bit like at least a ten x amount of him. Ten x more peace. Do you want that? If it were available, would you want ten x more joy if you could have it? Would you want ten x more sense of purpose? If you could? Ten x more sense of his pleasure and his affirmation? If you could have that, would you want it? Because that's the stakes. That's what's on the line." [41:46] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "Listen, that's not your real objection. How do I know that? Because it's really easy to find out. That's not true. We do an independent audit every year. We spend our money as prodigiously as we can to make it go as far as possible for ministry. We don't have big fat savings account. We do everything, everything we say we're going to do. You can see it happen. That's not a real objection. Take you five minutes to correct that one. See, if you don't choose to engage, just be honest with yourself. It's because you're scared that if you actually hear God's voice, he's going to push you. And if he pushes you, it's going to be uncomfortable. And if you feel that way, man, so much empathy, so much grace, please hear that from me. And let me just tell you, by the way, that what you're thinking is 100% true. He will show up, he will push you and it will be uncomfortable. But do you know what's on the other side of uncomfortable, the unimaginable life. God has a life for you that you can't. Your brain can't stretch to ten x." [43:12] (62 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | )