Stephen Venable: Unable to consistently find our keys and remember names, we turn around and champion our newly-formed opinions about the Bible with unflagging confidence.... read on here.

Stephen Venable: The "freedom" of grace is not the expression of the desires of the flesh but rather the subduing of them so we can enjoy the glory of Jesus.

Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God - Mike Bickle

Bill Johnson: Fire always falls on sacrifice. Be the sacrifice.

Josh Hawkins: The wisest thing we can ever do is sit before Wisdom incarnate and hear as Mary did.

"God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good." AW Tozer

John Piper: Have you climbed to the top and looked over the ridge of your knowledge? The endless ranges of God take your breath away.

"God created us to be worshipers, but sin draws us into everything else but worship." AW Tozer

Justin Rizzo: What caused the Father to anoint Jesus with the oil of joy? Jesus hated wickedness and loved righteousness Heb 1:9

John Piper: Ask for his Christ-revealing fullness now. "How much more will the Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask!” Luke 11:13

David Sliker: The uniqueness of our faith is this, "God came to us to die, comes to us by His Spirit, and is coming again to dwell amongst us." At no point is Christianity ever about, "We get to God." Even heaven comes down to us at the consummation of all things.

Corey Russell: The fear of the Lord is jealously guarding the gift that we have received in Jesus

Sarah Sun Kim: When Jesus commands us to "learn," He zeroes in on mercy (Mt. 9:13), gentleness & lowliness of heart (Mt. 11:29) & the end times (Mt. 24:32)

David Sliker: If your theology does not produce the fear of the Lord and trembling at His word, it lacks wisdom.

David Sliker: The definitive statement of God’s approval, acceptance, and delight in us was spoken thunderously and eternally, at the cross.

misty edwards: Jesus' humility moves me so deeply. There is no other god in all of history who is the "Servant of All"... O how I love Him!

Benjamin Nolot: Facing the injustices of this world doesn't make me just, but it drives me to the One who is.

David Pawson: The Jesus who could take little children on his knee and bless them could whip money-changers out of the temple. There are a few people on earth that can be a lion and a lamb, perfectly balanced. Jesus is a Lion and a Lamb together.

Corey Russell: If we could get people to understand what they possess in Christ, and then teach them how to access it, we would see the greatest revival ever

Mike Bickle: Jesus didn’t put on humility to just accomplish a task on earth. Humility it is part of His eternal nature.

Dana Candler: As I behold by meditation the little eyes of God as a newborn, my heart swells with joy and then pines with longing to see His Eyes of Fire.

David Sliker: Nobody's admiration or recommendation will be of any help to me at all on the day I stand before Jesus.

David Pawson: Jesus is the only hope, the only person with sufficient ability and authority, to right the wrongs of this sick, sad and sinful world.

David Sliker: As believers, it's our joy to mourn for the return of Jesus.

Josh Hawkins: When we buy into the delusion of comfort in this present evil age, we numb our God-given heartache of the absence of Jesus.

Stephen Venable: The life-coach version of Jesus so common today only yields a weak, sentimental remembrance of His 1st coming & no longing for His return. It's the beautiful & terrible Jesus of the Bible who incites wonder when our eyes look to the manger & longing when we look to the sky.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. -Corrie Ten Boom

Stephen Venable: After His resurrection, Jesus did not appear to Herod, Pilate, or the high priest to try to convert them. He appeared to Mary Magdalene.

David Sliker: Question: do you talk about Jesus as a concept to be understood or a Man to be known? How intimately have we connected to the details of Jesus' life, the depth of His concerns, and the breadth of His emotions and values?

Dana Candler: Getting up close with an open heart to the wonder and awe of Jesus' First Coming always sweeps my heart into the raw ache for His Return.

"Far be it from us to seek a crown of honour where our Lord found a coronet of thorn." (Spurgeon)

Bob Sorge: The task of preachers is to make manifest the mysteries of Christ (Col. 4:3), that is, the things about Christ which men don’t understand.

Corey Russell: The judgement seat of Christ will be the great "shocker".We will be shocked over all of the seemingly insignificant things that moved heaven. We will also be shocked over all of the seemingly significant things that are consumed in a moment by His fire. 2 Cor 5.10 and 1 Cor 3.13-15

Stephen Venable: Nothing anchors our faith to a Person & guards it from degenerating into a mere ideology or lifestyle like prayerfully reading the Gospels.

Corey Russell: The Fear of the Lord is the awareness that God sees, He cares, and He will act. This is terrifying and comforting all at the same time.

Think of running a race with no clear knowledge of the finish. So too our lives without lucid vision of Jesus' return & kingdom. - Stephen Venable

Kurt Miller: I don't want to live in ease and comfort in this life; I want to take up my cross to demonstrate the worth of Christ to the world.

David Pawson: One loving heart sets another on fire.

The gospels are "records of a life which, in its majesty & beauty, infinitely transcended the capacities of invention or imagination"-Farrar

Bob Sorge: Gal. 6:14 ...the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. A manned cross is grossly detestable. So when it says “the world has been crucified to me,” it means that the world has been made utterly abhorrent to me. Reciprocally, when I have been crucified to the world, the world looks at me and finds me entirely loathsome.

Matt Candler: All the beautiful streams of the knowledge of God come forth from one fount - Jesus, the Living Waters.

Lou Engle: Jesus said 'My house will be a house of prayer for all ethnic groups.' I believe we can empty out all our baggage of unforgiveness together and find each other in the place of prayer. Let's find each other at the cross.

Bob Sorge: Psa. 105:24 He increased His people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies. God put Israel inside Egypt so they would grow. In 430 years, they grew from a family of 70 to a nation some three million strong. They became strong enough to conquer, inhabit, and hold their promised land. God sends you into captivity to grow you. Never waste a good prison sentence—get large enough to inhabit your promises.

Stephen Venable: The gospel is the coming of Yahweh and His eschatological kingdom of justice. The cross is what makes this good news instead of terrible news.

Bill Johnson: I pay no attention to the warnings of possible excess from those who are satisfied with lack.

Bob Sorge: Prov. 13:12, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.” What is to be done with the grinding heartsickness that hope deferred produces? Harness the heartsickness: put down roots into God. When the desire comes, your testimony will be a tree of life to an entire generation. The thing about a tree is, it feeds more than just you.

David Pawson: The most important opinion about your church and my church is not what anybody else says, but what Jesus says. (Rev 2 and 3)

"The knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man with knowledge of both God and sin simultaneously." - Blaise Pascal

"The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God." AW Tozer

"...one great reason why people sometimes doubt the abiding value of God-centered preaching is because they have never heard any." John Piper

A branch does not labor to produce fruit, it simply draws on the life in the vine. “‘I am the true vine…Every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.’” John 15:1-2 -Bob Sorge

“If we do our simple part of obedience, the Lord will do His part, which is the largest."- Allen Hood

Bob Sorge: Matt. 11:7 As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see?” Jesus affirmed that people went into the wilderness not to hear but to see John the Baptist. John was a burning and shining lamp, and people came from all over to watch him burn.

Leaders: People don’t come to listen to you but to watch you.

David Sliker: He is a King we are subject to, and a Judge we are accountable to; He is also a Bridegroom, which disarms our objections to the first two.

Stephen Venable: Service of others begins with ministry to the Lord. I have nothing to offer my family or community unless my soul is actually alive in Jesus

Stephen Venable: Skimmed thru a prominent Christian magazine & found no content that was actually focused on Jesus. How has that become normal?

David Sliker: The Lord gave us so many ways to reach for "more" of Him: prayer, fasting, giving, worship, obedience. We can build our lives around Him.

David Sliker: The way you live before God may seem foolish to many, but wisdom will be justified.

Bob Sorge: Never assume God’s silence means no. If God hasn’t answered your prayer yet, here’s what you should take that to mean: He hasn’t answered your prayer yet. His silence is an invitation to wait on Him until He answers. 2 Cor. 1:20 For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen

Lou Engle: Our passion is so dim because we only put a little wood on the altar once in a while. We were born to burn!

David Sliker: God has given us everything we need to attain to godliness - every spiritual blessing has been made available; He desires our fullness.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the cross than anywhere else in the world. J. C. Ryle

Stephen Venable: "I meditate on all Your doings..." Ps 143:5 What a stunning statement! Few desire greater grace in intercession, fewer still in meditation.

David Pawson: Those whom others would dismiss as relatively unimportant, Jesus treats with greater care.

Shelley Hundley: When we understand that Jesus is the Judge, we understand an equally important truth-we are not! Rom.12:19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves

Ron Downing: Whatever you set your gaze upon will consume your inner life (Luke 11.34-36; 2 Cor 3.18)

Josh Hawkins: Pondering the childhood of Jesus never gets old. What must Mary have thought years later about her 5-year old upholding all things?

Stephen Venable: Do we possess wealth? Are we comforted? Are we well-fed? Today do we laugh? Do men speak well of us? If so, Jesus says woe to us. Luke 6:24-26

Bob Sorge: Things don’t change when I talk to God; things change when God talks to me. When I talk, nothing happens. When God talks, the universe comes into existence. That's why listening prayer is so important.

Christology sessions 5-8 begin this Sunday downstairs. Sign up is in the dining room. May Jesus be exalted forever. -david

Stephen Venable: I find I'm more stirred to pray by books about Jesus than by books on prayer. The latter can give vision, but the former is the substance.

John G Lake: Is it not time that we came out of our theological debates, & get hold of the Eternal God, & called the power of Christ down?

John Piper: We measure the worth of a treasure by what we will gladly give up to have it. (Philippians 3:7-8; Matthew 13:44)

"I want night and day prayer because that's what they do in heaven. And I want earth to be like heaven." -Lou Engle

Shelley Hundley: Jesus as Bridegroom is the best & worst news for humanity. It means we are cherished beyond measure, but also that Jesus will not share us.

"There is no place to hide but in the blood of the Lamb." AW Tozer

David Sliker: "Who, for the joy set before Him, endured the cross, despising (thinking little of, not regarding) the shame..." (Heb.12:2) The joy set before Jesus as the reward for His suffering so filled His mind upon the cross that He paid no regard to the shame of it all. A victorious Bride, mature in love - consumed w/ the incomparable greatness of knowing Him in power & suffering is the reward He fought for.

Bob Sorge: Fast from your little indulgences and pleasures, which keep your heart close to your belly and crowd out Kingdom perspective.

"How many Christians really harbor within their own spirit the daily expectation of God's presence?" AW Tozer

Bob Sorge: Your appearance before Christ on the Day of Judgment is going to be a very personal encounter between you and Jesus. When your eyes lock with His, the only important thing in the universe at that moment will be the words that come out of His mouth.

Bob Sorge: Holiness is not merely the absence of sin; it’s the presence of fire.

David Sliker: There is a day soon coming when the pulpits of the earth will be consumed with preaching the incomparable beauty & worth of Jesus.

David Sliker: The 1st agenda of the Holy Spirit in this hour is to reveal Jesus to His church. 2nd agenda: bring the church into agreement with His plans.

Bob Sorge: About devout people who reject Jesus: “One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination” (Prov. 28:9)

Stephen Venable: One's maturity as a Christian (Phil 3:15) will never go beyond the depth & clarity of one's knowledge of Christ (Phil 3:8).

“Only one life will soon be past, only what is done for Christ will last.” - J.Hudson Taylor

Stephen Venable: I think the weak words of one soul spoken in the prayer closet are more important to God than the rhetoric of politicians spoken to millions

Stephen Venable: The vista of the splendor of the divinity of Jesus (Jn 1:1-4) must be our vantage point if we are to behold His humanity rightly (Jn 1:14).

John Piper: In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forever (Ps.16:11). You can't improve Full and Forever.

Stephen Venable: The one needful thing is not generic zeal. It consists of gazing long upon the beauty of Jesus, hearing His word & meditating on His life.

For all those in central Illinois, I will be teaching on Mark 14 at herman's barn worship night, this Friday Sept 30th. -david.

The love that you have for Jesus
come and put inside of me.
Burn it on my heart like a seal,
that in the famine of your presence,
or in the floods of persecution,
or in the comfort of the culture,
it’s still real!
I just want a heart that is fully in love!
-Jon Thurlow

David Pawson: We shall be judged for 'every careless word', because it is the careless words, spoken when you are tired or busy, that reveal your heart.

Only God can move mountains, but prayer moves God - E.M. Bounds

Stephen Venable: "I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene - walk!" Peter in Acts 3:6 We differ from John & Peter on both levels. No longer can we say we lack silver & gold & no longer can we tell a lame man to walk.

Stephen Venable: The chief crises in the Church today are the authority of Scripture & the truth of the identity of Jesus. Other issues are just symptoms.

Stephen Venable: The greatest miracle of the Holy Spirit is taking a self-absorbed, sin-enslaved, rebel & turning them into a Christ-exalting bondservant.

John Piper: God's eagerness to work for us is astonishing. His eyes are running through the earth looking for occasions (2 Chron. 16:9).

David Sliker: Sin is an open confession of dissatisfaction with the life of the Holy Spirit and the leadership of Jesus in our lives. Sin is also an open confession of our lack of faith in the superior pleasure found in love from Jesus & the riches that reward our love for Him.

Josh Hawkins: When the Sustainer of all is in the boat with us, we need not worry about the storm. He alone has power to both give and take our breath.

"Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul." AW Tozer

Stephen Venable: How would it feel to have Jesus, the Beautiful One, tell you about the glory of His return? (Mt. 24) Eschatology & intimacy are good friends

Public preaching is the fruit of private weeping - Leonard Ravenhill

Bill Johnson: When I live out of discipline, I'm admired. When I live out of passion, I'm contagious.

"The birthplace of fasting is homesickness for God." - John Piper

Stephen Venable: All we do is judged solely by the extent to which it's motivated by loving desire to exalt & honor Jesus. The rest will burn. 1 Cor 3:10-15

David Sliker: To act without prayer is to attempt to build without the help of the architect, who also has all the resources & leads the workforce.

"My house shall be called a House of Prayer for all nations." - Jesus of Nazareth, approx. 33 AD

Bob Sorge: “Bring them here to me”(Matt. 14:18). A disciple’s job is to place stuff in Jesus’ hands and then watch what He does with it.

Lou Engle: Those who are famous in the secret place are those who make Jesus famous in the earth.

‘The gospel’ is not ‘you can be saved, and here’s how’; the gospel, for Paul, is ‘Jesus Christ is Lord’. - NT Wright

Stephen Venable: I'm praying that our hope would be set fully on Jesus & His return. I'm mourning that it seems this will only happen through very severe means (Heb 12:27).

The opposite of love isn't hate, it's fear. The reason you have fear is because you have a love deficiency. -David Sliker

"You can't really be so well-adjusted to your world if it ends by nailing you up to a stake of wood." C. S. Lewis

"When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it solves a great deal of anxiety." AW Tozer

Stephen Venable: The question upon which all things hang: "But who do you say that I am?" Mk 8:29 Everyone answers this each day, either with truth or lies.

Josh Hawkins: The spearhead of attack from Satan on believers is to move their focus away from the singularity of devotion to Christ (2 Cor. 2:3).

David Sliker: Life is a ferris wheel, favor is but a moment; yet trouble & trial are but a moment as well. The love of God helps us navigate both.

David Sliker: At the end of the day, the truest, most real, and most powerful thing about my life is that Jesus loves me, values me, & fights for me.

for all Peoria AC's: I will be teaching a four week sunday morning class on Jesus: Exploring the excellencies of the God Man. sept 11 to oct 2 10am. Sign up sheet is in the dining room at church. So excited to study the One who was, and is, and is to come.

David Sliker: It's amazing to me that God keeps counting my weak, broken attempts at loving Him as real and worth His all to cultivate and champion. I put my five pennies on the table. God puts His trillion dollars on the table. He smiles & celebrates. He says, "look at our money!"

Do not give the most precious season of your life to that which will not comfort you in the latter days of your life. -JC Ryle

David Pawson: It is no surprise that in Psalms theology very quickly becomes doxology. Truth leads inevitably to praise.

Bill Johnson: When in doubt, worship.

Shelley Hundley: Without recognizing Jesus the coming Judge, we have no comfort to offer those withering under the weight of a wicked and a perverse world.

Bob Sorge: Those who eat food sacrificed to idols share in the altar at which that food was sacrificed (see 1Cor. 9:13; 10:18). This applies to TV, movies, etc. Those who are entertained by (feast upon) the sins of sinners are partakers in what they are offering. Many believers would not commit the sins they watch, but by being entertained by them they have a share in them.

For all the crazy worshipers of Jesus! Steph and I will be leading worship at the Garage in East Peoria, this friday 8/26 @ 7pm.

John Piper
A crumpled check is still good money, if the signature is on it. So is a crumpled prayer, if Jesus name is really on it.

David Sliker: You may not like the way your race started, or how it is going today - but how you finish really matters to Jesus.

Stephen Venable: The greatest man ever born of a woman (Mt 11:11) said he was not even fit to untie the sandal of the Mighty One who was coming (Lk 3:16). The main thing to emulate about John the Baptist is his revelation of the majesty of Jesus. That is what empowers imitation of his lifestyle.

Stephen Venable: Our reading of the Gospels should produce the same amazed response as the eyewitnesses: "We have never seen anything like this." Mk 2:12

Bob Sorge: The Father has given me to Jesus (Jn. 6:37), and He has given Jesus to me (Rom. 8:32). What sweet intimacy!

I will be teaching on Luke 18 for the College IJM Awareness Night at Hermans barn on Sunday the 14th 7pm. It should be a great night.

Stephen Venable: "Deny yourself" and "hope fully in the age to come" may be the rarest utterances heard from pulpits but they are at the core of discipleship.

Stuart Greaves
Only Jesus' opinion about our life matters in the end

Matt Candler: To know Jesus is to love Him...but ONLY IF we seek His exaltation & evaluation above our own, otherwise we will abhor Him... as most do.

David Sliker: Marriage between two who love Jesus is a prophetic sign for all of THE wedding to come; our hearts are to be freshly stirred for that Day.

Bob Sorge: Nowhere does it say God had mercy on Jesus. Grace, yes (Lk. 2:40). Mercy, no. The only Man who needed no mercy. He WAS mercy.

Josh Hawkins: The Christian's answer to the question "what's the meaning of life?" is simple - that Jesus may be preeminent in all things (Col. 1:18)

Stephen Venable: God is the One who has decreed that our bodies die & we return to the dust (Ps 90:3), but by that same voice those in Christ will rise again

Bob Sorge: When you see God, the fear of man becomes a non-issue.

Josh Hawkins: Jesus, let me never buy into views or perspectives that falsely soothe the ache of You not being here on the earth with us.

David Sliker: I'm grieved by any grace message that gives license to live at a distance from Jesus; it's His gift to help us walk in agreement with Him!

Richy Clark: Demons don't have to openly manifest to divide Christians, just whisper a few lies to insecure hearts.

Corey Russell: I believe in early morning prayer. The Lord sent manna every morning and told them to pick it up before sunrise. Get up and get the manna!

Stephen Venable: Jesus created all things, sustains all things, is the reason for all things & will have supremacy in all things (Col 1). This is our hope.

Stuart Greaves: The focal point of true apostolic preaching is the proclamation of a Person - Christ Jesus

Stuart Greaves: The Bible is simple enough for a child to read and too deep for a scholar to master.

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David Sliker: Many can worship the "bleeding Jesus" on a cross; but can we worship the "bloody Jesus" of Isa. 63?

David Pawson: Even our understanding of Jesus can be faulty if we derive it only from the Gospels and ignore his self-portrait and letters in Revelation.

Josh Hawkins: No matter how much I meditate on it in this age, I think I'm going to be shocked when I see a human sitting on the throne in heaven.

Corey Russell: If we quote God's words then God's ability will be released. If we quote the devil and his lies, then his ability will be released

Stephen Venable: God doesn't exist to ensure comfort for our bodies. Our bodies exist to glorify God.(1 Cor 6:20) That includes imprisonment & death. Phil 1:20

"The promise of Habakkuk: You share you heart with God and He will share His with you" David Pawson

Bob Sorge: God’s not on trial in your wilderness, you are. God’s faithfulness has been proven over the centuries, you’re the one who’s unproven.

Bob Sorge
The cross surfaces everybody’s loyalties. You cannot remain neutral before the cross. The cross forces everyone to choose sides.
1. Judas showed his loyalty was only to himself.
2. The loyalty of the eleven was tested to the max, and although they stumbled, they still loved Jesus and so were preserved.
3. The chief priests showed themselves loyal to their own standing in the nation.
4. Pilate, when having to choose between loyalty to Christ and loyalty to Caesar, chose Caesar without hesitation (John 19:12-13).
5. Jesus demonstrated His loyalty to His Father, even in His hour of utter forsakenness. The cross is the ultimate symbol of loyalty.

Stephen Venable: For Jesus to truly be supreme in worship, preaching, community, lifestyle & mission is the most revolutionary vision possible for His Church

"The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality to which all previous history leads and from which all subsequent history flows." - Peter J. Leithart

We must stop using the fact that we cannot earn grace as an excuse for not energetically seeking to receive grace. (Dallas Willard)

Bob Sorge: At the Last Supper, John laid his head on the spot where, hours later, the spear would pierce Jesus’ side. (John 13:25; 19:34) Your scars, Jesus, are my pillow.

John Piper: Since the curtain is torn from top to bottom, don't dawdle in the courtyard of the temple, run for the altar.

Bob Sorge: Resurrection not only raised up Christ, it also vindicated and glorified God as a good Father. "I will be a Father to you” (2Co. 6:18).

Stephen Venable: Jesus died. Try to cast off the familiarity between those two words & imagine what Jesus' friends & family felt after His crucifixion.

John Piper: "Serve the LORD with fear" (Ps 2:11). "Serve the LORD with gladness!" (Ps 100:2). Solution: "Rejoice with trembling" ( 2:11).

"Any 'passion' not completely anchored in the Lord's identity will be fleeting zeal and hollow sentiment." - Stephen Venable

John Piper: There is only one person God has treated worse than he deserved.

David Pawson: Jesus was the king of the Jews in the past, he is the king of the Church today, and he will be king of the world in the future.

corey russell - barren wombs give birth to prophets.

Bill Johnson: Heaven has perfect confidence in God. This world is filled with unbelief and resistance to God. We will always reflect the nature of the world we are most aware of.

"The perfect will of God will hem you in on a pathway of embracing the cross throughout your life." - Mike Bickle

Brian Kim: Does what you read, watch, listen to, even eat, draw your affections towards Jesus? If not, why waste your life? Waste it on Jesus instead.

Tim Cone: The best thing we can do with our time is worship Jesus. Why give ourselves to anything less?

Stuart Greaves: The fundamental motivation of night & day worship and prayer is the indescribable wealth and the glorious worth of God. Ps145:3, Rev4:8

David Sliker: Sing the word of God until you feel something on the inside move. Then sing more.

"No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it." AW Tozer

Stephen Venable: The farmer awaits the harvest, the espoused looks to the wedding, the warrior fights until victory - such is our life in Christ in this age

John Piper: Conversion to Christ: a pearl-trampling swine miraculously sees One Pearl and sells all its sty and mud to buy that pearl.

Rick Warren: God did not put you on earth to knock things off your to-do list, but to love Him and make Him known to others.

Reinhard Bonnke: To a bird that flies, it doesn’t matter how high the fence is.

Karli Venable: His word to us is faithful & true. Brings me great hope that He has spoken time & again. It is His silence that I fear, not His correction.

David Sliker: It will be sooner than we think - in a just moment we will be with Him where He is..

Bob Sorge: This planet is on an unstoppable, inexorable, irreversible crash course with the Glory of God. Num. 14:21; Hab. 2:14.

Matt Candler: Contemplation of the Eschatological End breaks the dam of the future, flooding the present with desires for our blessed hope realized.

Stuart Greaves: We're of the aristocracy of the eternal city. We're married into indescribable wealth. We're of the government of the eternal city.

110 Person choir singing with Justin Rizzo and Anna Blanc in the Prayer ...

"It is atheism to pray and not to wait in hope" -Richard Sibbes

David Sliker: Jesus loves me so much, He is fiercely committed to destroying that which has afflicted me: my deep infatuation with myself.

Dana Candler: When it's all said & done, I'll show my love for Jesus more by countless choices in monotony than by the few radical moments of intensity

John Piper: Lord Jesus, give me the midnight spirit of Paul and Silas, and turn my sorrows into midnight songs. Acts 16:25

Josh Hawkins: Convicting chorus from our 8am set this morning: "If you want to see what's really in me, listen to my speech."

John Piper: If everybody on earth died tonight, the most important person would still be alive, and his purpose would not have changed.

Stuart Greaves: Doctrine without power is not true doctrine - Mark1:27

John Mulinde's prophetic message at IHOP 3/1/11

worth the time.

The motto of all true servants of God must be, “We preach Christ; and Him crucified.” A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching. (Spurgeon)

David Sliker: There's no one I fear more, and feel safer with, than Jesus.

Even so Lord, come!" John the Beloved declared this *after* he saw the vision of unprecedented trouble & trial preceding the Lord's return." Even so..." are, in that light, some of the most beautiful & tender, yet haunting & intense words ever written.

David Sliker

David Pawson: In the Garden of Eden Adam said 'I won't'. In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus said 'not my will but yours be done'. Each began a human race.

IHOPKC: We can't repent of our longing for fascination. We either satisfy it in God or in darkness. It isn't neutral and won't go away.

Josh Hawkins: Everything that humanity desires to know about God can be found in a Man who walked our streets and ate our food for 33 years. (Col. 2:3)

Brian Kim: Suggestion: Spend 1 hour every morning, 1 day a week (Sabbath), 1 week every 6 months to get away and be alone with Jesus

Tim Cone: I live to worship Jesus. I will die worshiping Jesus. I will rise from the grave worshiping Jesus. I will live forever worshiping Jesus.

John Piper: No one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. (Mat 11:27) Now we know whom to ask.

Bob Sorge :Warriors who love are prone to ministry exhaustion; lovers who war go further because they’ve found the source of unceasing oil.

David Sliker: One of the most intense lessons humility teaches the heart is when you discover you're no different than your fathers who came before you.

"Wherever we find Jesus is the perfect place to worship." AW Tozer

-- wes martin: Only by fully loving Jesus are we able to experience the fullness of what it means to be human.

David Pawson: True faith is not a single step, but a long walk.

"Jesus did not heal the sick to coax them to be Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal." John G Lake

"Although knowing God exhaustively is beyond our grasp, knowing Him truly is not." – Allen Hood

David Pawson: "We mustn't be too upset when people say things about us; after all, we need to remember that it would be much worse if they knew the truth"

behold the man upon the cross, His love comes streaming down.

Zack Hensley: My vision in prayer is not a revival of Azuza Street or the Jesus Movement. I pray until Jesus and His just government are on the Earth.

Oh God, You became a man, You took on flesh, You're so beautiful.

-justin rizzo

Josh Hawkins: The Word of Life who spoke the cosmos into existence had to learn how to speak and write as a young Child. I wonder what His first word was?