Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart.

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.