The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

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.

Never be hurried out of the relationship of abiding in Him.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.