Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.
Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.
A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology.
There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian’s right to live luxuriously “as a child of the King” in this atmosphere sounds hollow – especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.
The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God’s gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. “In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.
Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.
The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.
The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases – or any other way – is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long – like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald.
Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.
The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.
The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.
It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.
God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.
God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.