Power Moves: Ignite Your Confidence and Become a Force
by Sarah Jakes Roberts
9 popular highlights from this book
Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Power Moves: Ignite Your Confidence and Become a Force:
Your power is not going to come from an opportunity, position, or person.
Where you start may not be where you land, but until you learn to make space for your truth, you cannot tap into the fullness of God’s goodness concerning your life, nor can you reasonably expect anyone else to do the same.
Deflecting from the way that you harm someone and highlighting the way that they harm instead is a sign of immaturity that keeps you from truly being powerful.
Life is a messy job. You get to decide whether you allow that mess to help you or bury you.
The foundation of my faith is connected to my profound belief that following the life of Jesus is the only way to experience the fullness of God’s plan for the earth and for you.
When expediency becomes more important than accurately living according to our values, there will be damage.
Most people are trying to determine what type of person you are. Once they’ve identified the type of person you are—shy, fashionable, athletic, smart, fun loving, clumsy, funny, forgetful, moody—they build walls around you and expect you to stay in the category that they understand.
Any relationship that requires you to be stagnant will frustrate you because the connection feels like restriction at a time when pursuing freedom has become your passion.
A person who seeks to move with power is only able to do so when they discern when the power they’ve been granted transformed from a tool into a weapon and wounded an undeserving soul. There’s nothing more powerful than being able to take accountability for where you’ve messed up so that you can grow. If you can’t admit where you failed, you cannot reflect God’s character on Earth. Power without accountability will always turn to abuse. I believe that this is why Jesus was intentional about taking time away from His close circle to have solitude with God.
