I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty.... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

Above all else, He loves you and chose to measure that love out not in words, but in blood. He loves you enough to give you the greatest gift conceivable. Would such a love allow you to suffer without purpose?

Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.

If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will not stand against the elements that will come against us. God has designed both our physical and spiritual lives to be ordered by one key attribute upon which the fruit of the Spirit is based—that foundation is love.

Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.

No one is going to be powerful in their ministry if they are hiding something that they are afraid people will find out at any moment.