Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.

The only way the corporate Body of Christ will fulfill the mission Christ has given it is for individual Christians to have a vision for fulfilling that mission personally.

We are God's productions, His compositions.

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.

Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our loving Father, we need to ask Him to help us develop a healthy Father/child relationship.