I will not run away this time

“God wants us to think correctly… . He wants us to forsake the thoughts that are built on lies … and He wants us to embrace truth… . How can we do that? There are four imperatives: (1) We must ask God to make us aware of our faulty thinking; (2) we must ask His Spirit to conform us to His image; (3) we must consciously deny the wrong things we think; and (4) we must consciously replace those wrong thoughts with truth.”

“When we engage in the act of prayer itself, there is no preparing, no getting the right words, no posture to take, no mood to assume. We simply do it. Prayer is primal speech. We do not first learn to do it, and then proceed to do it; we do it, in the doing we find out what we are doing, and then deepen and mature in it.”

“You must drop your sin to draw near to Him, but it is an infinitely worthwhile exchange. Sin hinders prayer and fellowship. Confess it, repent of it, right your wrongs, and get closer to the heart of God.”

“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.”

“One of the best feelings is finding someone who really gets you. A person who lets you be vulnerable and honest. The kind of person who encourages you to push past your flaws because they accept you as you are. Someone who never tells you that you’re too much of this and too little of that. Because to them you’re just enough of everything they love.”

“I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.”

“The sin of the heart affects the prayers of the mouth. There is a cleansing that must happen before we enter the throne room of God. There is an emptying that must take place before God occupies the throne of our heart. The interference must be dealt with so the communication will be clear.”

“What a better world it would be if all marriages centred on commitment rather than convenience, on giving rather than receiving, and on God rather than self!”