If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?

Because God is better than we think we have to change the way we think.

Don’t be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn’t do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father doing… The moment I have a lesser sense of Him and a greater sense of the problem, I will live in reaction to the problem.

People follow courage, not titles.

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.