Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we're waiting and we're really waiting with God.

Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him.

Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn't a part of their lives because they aren't "religious." But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

Don't dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God's all-sufficiency.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

If you're waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you're always waiting on God, you'll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.