We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.

We are here for God's designs, not for our own