No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.

The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

In thinking about His many blessings, you view God's work from a new perspective.

God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.