We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.