Matthew West Quotes

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• Father, break my heart for what breaks yours. Give me open hands and open doors. Put your light in my eyes and let me see, that my own little world is not about me.

  Matthew West

  Christian, Song, Father

  Matthew West, Terry Glaspey (2012). “The Story of Your Life Interactive Journey”, p.35, Harvest House Publishers

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• The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.

  Matthew West

  Christian, People, Together

  FaceBook post by Matthew West from Mar 04, 2015

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• To be called a child of God - there is no greater distinction. I love the final sentence of that Scripture with that emphatic exclamation mark. What a powerful assurance. Right here, right now, in this very moment, no matter how good or bad you feel about yourself, you're a beloved child of God. Throughout Scripture, God is conveying this message. He made you, he loves you, he pursues you, he's not done with you, and he's called you his child.

  Matthew West

  Children, Powerful, Love You

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Show me how to love the unlovable
  Show me how to reach the unreachable
  Help me now to do the impossible...Fo rgiveness

  Matthew West

  How To Love, Helping, Impossible

  Song: Forgiveness, Album: Into the Light, 2012

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• There's no substitute for the power of a personal story. The true stories of God redeeming a broken life shoot like arrows straight to our hearts and remind us that God wants to do the same life changing work in our lives. I love how one story can impact another story, causing a ripple effect of change if we let it.

  Matthew West

  Life Changing, Heart, Broken

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Christianity has always been against the flow of culture and continues to call us in the opposite direction of the way the world is heading. Instead of falling in love with ourselves, Christ followers are called to deny themselves. Instead of trusting in the power they possess, they are called to surrender to God's higher power. Instead of looking within for the answers in life, they are called to acknowledge that His ways are higher. The decision to follow Christ has always been an "all or nothing" decision. There's no way to stand up to the world while you're trying to straddle the fence.

  Matthew West

  Falling In Love, Decision, Trying

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We've got social media now where we can even create an identity for ourselves and show the world an inauthentic highlight reel version of who we are. But I'm drawn to real, not a highlight reel. The world doesn't need to see another plastic Christian pretending they've got it all together.

  Matthew West

  Christian, Real, Together

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian.

  Matthew West

  Christian, Offering, Dressing Up

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• I know I'm not strong enough to be everything that I'm supposed to be. I give up. I'm not stong enough. Hands of mercy won't you cover me? Lord right now I'm asking you to be Strong enough. Strong enough for the both of us.

  Matthew West

  Strong, Giving Up, Hands

  FaceBook post by Matthew West from Jun 04, 2011

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• Happy Day After Christmas, Merry Rest of the Year, even when Christmas is over, The Light of the World is Still Here!

  Matthew West

  Christmas, Light, Years

  FaceBook post by Matthew West from Dec 26, 2013

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• We are living in uncertain times. In a world where peace seems to be in short supply, I feel like the world is desperate to see an example of "peace that passes understanding." When someone goes "all in" for God, committing their whole life to Him, peace is one of the gifts we are promised. Someone who is all in for God can take to heart that even though we will have trouble in this world, our lives are in the hands of the one who has overcome this world. When we've been filled with God's peace, only then can we turn around and become instruments of His peace to a hurting world.

  Matthew West

  Hurt, Heart, Understanding

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• In the thousands of stories I've collected over the years there are people who just want to know that their story matters, that their story isn't beyond hope. And people, no matter how broken a story I might read, I have always found at least a glimpse of God's hand still at work in each and every story. I have been powerfully reminded that God is in the junkyard business. He willingly walks into the messiest parts of our lives, gets his hands dirty, and begins building something beautiful out of that very thing which the world might overlook as worthless.

  Matthew West

  Beautiful, Dirty, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• One of the things I love about the Bible is that it's page-by-page proof that God is not just a "broad strokes" kind of creator; God is in the details. So much so that we're told nothing is hidden from him. He sees everything; he's the beginning and the end. There's no greater authority on your life than the one who gave you your life.

  Matthew West

  Kind, Authority

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I’m sick and tired of life with no desire. I don’t want a flame, I want a fire.

  Matthew West

  Tired, Fire, Flames

  FaceBook post by Matthew West from Mar 19, 2014

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• I love David's prayer, "Search me, God, and know my heart..." [Psalm 139:23]. I prayed that a lot. "God, search my heart and my life, reveal to me any areas of my life that you want me to see, any identities you want to show me, and help me dare to believe that your grace has erased them once and for all."

  Matthew West

  Prayer, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I don't wanna go throught the motions
  I don't wanna go one more day
  Without your all-consuming
  Passion inside of me
  I don't wanna spend my whole life asking
  What if I had given everything?
  Instead of going through the motions.

  Matthew West

  Passion, What If, Asking

  Matthew West, Angela Thomas (2011). “The Story of Your Life”, p.174, Harvest House Publishers

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• I truly believe that if someone is believing a lie about who they are right now, that God's desire for you is to be set free from that once and for all. Ask him to show you where that false identity is coming from. Ask him to show you how differently he sees you than how you view yourself.

  Matthew West

  Lying, Believe, Desire

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Give me open hands and open doors.

  Matthew West

  Doors, Hands, Giving

  Song: My Own Little World, Album: The Story of Your Life, 2010

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• I think the biggest fear is the fear of what a life devoted to God will cost. We love our stuff, don't we? It's the fear of the thought that maybe, just maybe, a life going all in for God might mean we would have to let go of some of our stuff, our way of life, our comforts. That scares people. I know it scares me sometimes.

  Matthew West

  Letting Go, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores are lined with shelves filled with self-help books. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and every other social media outlets turn our focus inwards, allowing us to fall more and more in love with ourselves, our thoughts, our opinions, our voices.

  Matthew West

  Book, Fall, Focus

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.

  Matthew West

  Football, Stars, Father

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• What I've learned much about myself by now is as the quality and discipline of my quiet time with the Lord goes, so goes the rest of my life. Whether or not I'm staying in the Word daily decides how I respond to conflict, what kind of dad and father I am, and every other aspect of my life. That's probably why Satan seems to daily distract me from that most essential thing on my to do list: spend time with God.

  Matthew West

  Dad, Father, Discipline

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I have a friend who lives in Los Angeles. In past conversations, we've discussed the differences between being a Christian in Nashville and being a Christian in L.A. In Nashville the question is not, "are you a believer?" The question is "where do you go to church?" My friend always used to tell me that if you decide to be a Christian in L.A., you have to be really serious about the decision you are making because you will be the minority. And Christianity is so exclusive. It's not popular to believe that there's only one way to Heaven.

  Matthew West

  Christian, Believe, Past

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I told myself that if I hoped to write a book that helped people to take a good look at some of the names that have been written on their nametags, I would need to do the same. I had to write Hello, My Name Is from a place of authenticity, even vulnerability, being willing to let God show me areas of my life that have been incorrectly shaped by false identities I've allowed to hang around for too long. I truly felt like, 'if this book is helping me, then it's going to help someone else.'

  Matthew West

  Letting Go, Book, Writing

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When I saw how much the message of the song resonated with people I began to realize we're all on the same journey of discovering who we are. Why else would the bookstores be filled with self-help books? That's why I wanted to write Hello My Name Is; as a powerful reminder that when it comes to getting to the core of who we are, we simply can't help ourselves. Left to our own devices, we'll wander down a wide road filled with people slapping false identities on us at every turn. I've walked that road, and I don't want to anymore.

  Matthew West

  Song, Powerful, Book

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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