Being a servant will take you places where your talent will never take you.

With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.

It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.

Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you pursue becomes your purpose.

But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the son's new revelation of his poverty of heart that propelled him back into his Father's arms. Sometimes we use the very blessings that God gives us to finance our journey away from the centrality of Christ. It's very important that we return back to ground zero, to the ultimate eternal goal of abiding with the Father's in intimate communion. (pg. 243)

God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come.