The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.

Here is a spiritual principle: We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace. You cannot truly love others unless you are convinced that God's love for you is unconditional, based solely on the merit of Christ, not on your performance. Our love, either to God or to others, can only be a response to His love for us.

Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only the Holy Spirit can change our children more and more into the likeness of Jesus. Our problem is we tend to depend upon our planting and watering rather than the Lord.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.