Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

You have been given a ministry and your ministry is not your job and your job and your ministry are two things and beyond that is your work in life which isn't the same as your ministry and then beyond that is your life. And this is what God is more interested in than your work or your ministry-what He gets out of your life is the person you become. And He has plans for you, and these are long-range plans.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.