As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before.

Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.

I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating" has the same root word as "humility"? Part of humility is taking responsibility for my sin and asking forgiveness even when it doesn't feel good. God wants to heal and restore your relationships, but it's not easy.

Let's help people get on board with what God wants to give them, but what we don't want is the process. Everyone wants the product.

As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.

The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.

Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what they're like until you put them in hot water.