All fruitfulness flows from intimacy.

Sometimes we make things too complicated when we really need to remember that the kingdom belongs to children.

If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.

If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.

Why go to the ends of the earth if you have nothing to give?

But God's love is big enough to touch any life, to make light out of any darkness. Jesus came that we might have life, so that no more would we have to die in depression, anger or pain. He loved people back to life. He would go anywhere, talk to anyone. And wherever He went, He would stop for the one-- the forgotten one, the one who was rejected, outcast, sick, even stone dead. Even a thief who was dying for his crimes on the cross next to Him. In the Kingdom of God's love there is no sinner who cannot come home.

The poor know they are in need.