We can’t be intimate because we can’t share feelings that we don’t have.
Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.
This is the year of expansion in the Kingdom of God! Tent pegs will span to the north, the south, the east, and the west in the realm of revelation in the dominion of the Kingdom, where you will walk in a greater dimension of the manifestation of the Kingdom for your life!
But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.
I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn’t find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.
I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.
I was taught that pain is bad.
There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.
We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.
We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.
All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.
The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.
Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
If God is in a life, it doesn’t have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.
My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.
I’ve seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too.
What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.