God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world. Prayer gives us the significance of front-line forces, and gives God the glory of a limitless Provider. The one who gives the power gets the glory. Thus prayer safeguards the supremacy of God in missions while linking us with endless grace for every need.

Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.