Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.

Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.