"Praise is not designed to change your circumstance. Praise is designed to keep you in contact with God. No matter what the circumstances may be, 'praise' says, "He's still in the mix." It takes maturity to give God praise: because when you said, "God, I need you to do this," and His answer was "no, but give Me praise anyhow" - you've got to know him for yourself in order to praise God when you don't get the expected answer or the desired answer for your intercession. God has to know that you mean your praise for real, it is not disingenuous. You're praising God because He's God, not because He's done anything; and not because you need Him to do anything. You're praising God just because He's God! The only reason somebody won't praise God is because they don't know Him as God! You know him as food; you know him as gasoline; you know him as a roof over your head; you know him as some clothes; you know him as money, but there's some other folks that know him as Jehovah!" - @BishopHennings

"I don't know who wronged you. I don't know who made you bitter. I don't know who made you cry. I don't even know who broke your heart. But one thing I do know... YOU SURVIVED IT!" - @BishopHennings

Once I learned that I had to carry my cross, the cross prevented me from doing things that I wanted to do. [Jesus] tells us to deny ourselves, but I had to get over denying the cross... Sometimes you want to deny the cross to do what you want to do, but you must deny yourself and carry your cross!.. Sometimes you fit in, but your cross won't; and the only way to get in is to take off your cross and take off your salvation.. But, if you're bearing the cross that Jesus had in Matthew 16, he said take up your cross [and follow me]. Your cross goes to bed with you. [Your cross] wakes up with you. [Your cross] goes to the amusement park. [Your cross] goes to the golf course. [Your cross] goes to the hair salon. [Your cross] goes to the mani pedi shop. Your cross goes everywhere you go and if you can't take your cross, you should not go! - @BishopHennings

“[in this context] ‘showing off’ DOES NOT mean showing ‘you.’ To show off in God is to show what God has done for you in spite of your enemy not wanting it to happen… The same people that don't want you to make it will be the same people asking you for a job; and the same people wanting to be your friend. All because they saw you show off in God! [What do you mean?] I mean, there was a booby trap, there was a pit fall, there was a setup; there was slander; there was gossip - but you are still here!” - @BishopHennings

“When you're innocent, the obligation of your existence is on people who are [aware] not innocent… For example, a baby is innocent. You're not innocent. You're more obligated and concerned about that which is innocent. So [a child’s] innocence depends upon your [awareness]… Two innocent people can make things happen… One of you has experienced life, you're no longer innocent, so you move towards perfection… A lot of people have innocently [hurt] people in the church. You thought you were saying something, but in your ignorance, you innocently hurt somebody. You didn't have the wisdom and the maturity to be slow to speak. So now, two people are angry because of your innocence.” - @BishopHennings #TheAgonyofInnocence #BlackHistoryMonth #ItsAMatterofDominion!

"When they were about to crucify Jesus, there was a tar baby that showed up 978 miles from home... Your Bible calls him Simon, the Niger, the Nigerian... How did this black man show up? Because when [Jesus] had to carry the TAU of the cross, that's the crossbar, He couldn't go any further and He fell; and a black man, Simon the Niger, the Nigerian, picked up the cross!... The Nigerian is traced all the way back to HAM - whose great, great ... Grandfather is KUSH... Science say's 1/3 of black people are Nigerian. You're everywhere!.. Why would God have you everywhere? Because sooner or later you're gonna end up caring the cross!... It's your time to preach! It's your time to pray! It's your time to worship! It's your time to intercede! It's your time to cast out devils!'" - @BishopHennings