“I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.”

Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.

Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.

Put very simply, Satan’s power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates.

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,

The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.

If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, ‘Hallelujah! Praise the Lord’ forever.

We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

I want nothing for myself; I want everything for the Lord.

Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!

God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.

Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ,

The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.

Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

The day before every revolution that’s ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks.

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

No beer before 5 p.m., wait… did I just say that?

How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime.

There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.