Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.