Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.

God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?'

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.

The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.

Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.