You cannot go with God and stay where you are.

God is interested in developing your character. At times He lets you proceed, but He will never let you go too far without discipline to bring you back. In your relationship with God, He may let you make a wrong decision. Then the Spirit of God causes you to recognize that it is not God's will. He guides you back to the right path.

If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.

God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.

You cannot go with God and stay where you are.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.