Tuesday, June 27, 2006

You Are Loved

Rebecca St. James


this is what i want to say to you
if i had one chance to speak to your heart.
you are loved, more than you could ever know.
this is what i want to say to you
if i had one chance to tell you something.
you are loved more than you can imagine. imagine

Invitation to Greatness: Becoming a Good and Faithful Servant

Mike Bickle, International House of Prayer-KC
Part One: Track 1-5


"Grace covers us when we fail and then inspires us to get back up and press in again."
"I charge you, I urge you to connect with [this] at the heart level. You just have to do commandments, the small ones and talk others into it, and stay consistent. And when you blow it, get forgiveness and push to lead, get back up and go hard again. and just do that for several decades."

- Failure does not ruin faithfulness. Just get up, repent, and keep
pressing forward. That is faithfulness.

"You're the kind of woman I want to run part of my government because when no one was looking, you were going hard after the things i went hard after when I was on down on the earth in the flesh and blood body."

"He's looking at what its costing you to obey when no one's looking, and to stay steady in the mundane, routine of life in a fallen world...and working without all the fanfare of the world. You're doing it because you want to be great in his sight."

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Listening to That Other Voice

Excerpts from Mere Christianity, author C.S. Lewis

That is why the real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.