When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.
Dallas WillardFasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
Dallas WillardIn the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.
Dallas WillardIndividually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.
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