All I Have Learned Through Trial And

The Most Powerful Thing That Can Happen In The Place Of Prayer Is That You Yourself Become The Prayer. You Leave The Prayer Room Able As Jesus' Hands And Feet On Earth. This Is What It Means To Pray Continually (without Ceasing), To See With The Eyes Of Jesus And To Hear With His Ears With Every Waking Moment.

The Good News Of The Gospel Of Grace Cries Out: We Are All, Equally, Privileged But Unentitled Beggars At The Door Of God's Mercy!

What Makes Authentic Disciples Is Not Visions, Ecstasies, Biblical Mastery Of Chapter And Verse, Or Spectacular Success In The Ministry, But A Capacity For Faithfulness. Buffeted By The Fickle Winds Of Failure, Battered By Their Own Unruly Emotions, And Bruised By Rejection And Ridicule, Authentic Disciples May Have Stumbled And Frequently Fallen, Endured Lapses And Relapses, Gotten Handcuffed To The Fleshpots And Wandered Into A Far County. Yet, They Kept Coming Back To Jesus.

We Are Not Cowed Into Timidity By Death And Life. Were We Forced To Rely On Our Own Shabby Resources We Would Be Pitiful People In Deed. But The Awareness Of Christ's Present Risenness Persuades Us That We Are Buoyed Up And Carried On By A Life Greater Than Our Own.

Anyone We Come In Contact With, We Either Offer Them Life, Or We Drain Them.