[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.
Chuck SmithThe purpose is not that you might get more of the Holy Spirit, but that the Holy Spirit might get more of you.
Chuck SmithPrayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.
Chuck Smith