He who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought.

1 Corinthians 8:2 (paraphrase)

The most interesting thing about the gospel is that, you could have all the words right, you could say all the right things, have all the right demeanor and mannerism, you could know when to shout and how to dance, but you could be just as much of a devil as Judas was.  That’s right.  It’s what’s on the inside that counts.

You don’t have what it takes.  You never have, and you never will.  If you can do it, it isn’t God, and it needs to die.

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, that when a man found it, he sold all he had, and for joy, went and sold all he had, and bought that field (Matthew 13:44).  What have you found in Him lately?  What facet are you in possession of?

You can speak as an echo.  You can speak what you know, or you can be a voice.  You can stand in His counsel, and lift your voice to Heaven, and hear Him speak.  When you open your mouth with those words, they will not be empty.

Your words are worthless, and you have nothing to say.  You have nothing you can contribute.  All you can do is bow to the great Holy Ghost, and say, ‘Yes Lord.’  Your success in ministry is the degree to which you submit.  Your significance in Eternity is determined by your yieldedness.

You can spend your time trying to get anointing, trying to get power, trying to get the things that make men’s heads turn, but when you get what makes Heaven move, all of Earth moves as you will, for He is.  There is nothing new under the sun, but there is one greater than the ball of fire in the sky, and it is the man who passed through all fires, and was victorious.

Your life is His.  What more do you have to offer?  One thing was required, and only one thing, to sit as His feet.

If Jesus didn’t utter one word that was His own (John 14:10), why do we think we can do better than His example?  If the tongue can set the whole course of a life on fire, why not submit it fully to the testimony of Jesus, which is the Spirit of Prophecy?  (Revelation 19:10).

The Way is not complicated, and there are only three types of soil that stop it.  The impenetrable heart, which the devil simply steals the word.  The shallow heart, which backs off when things are hard and don’t look good.  And the unconsecrated heart, which will not give the King His full sway.

Jesus said, I am from above, you are from beneath.  He said you are of this world; I am not of this world (John 8:23).  We who believe are born from above, we are born of imperishable seed, His word.  It is only the Spirit that gives life.

There is nothing I can give you to bring you to the Kingdom, except to bring you to the Word that gives life.  There is no teaching I can give that will produce it, if it is not given from above.  Yet, the word spoken, the word received, the word heard, brings faith from on High.  Faith, working through a heart in love brings forth His world, and it takes over all it touches.

What began as a flicker, becomes a blazing flame, and what started as a trickle, has become a flood.

The only thing that remains is to see His reign, the only thing that operates there is His glory.  It is not in the production of a man, but in a man who has become a vessel in which the Divine may flow.

His blessing, His divinity, partaken of, and out flown, to a world in need.  My part is the love, and my portion is His heart.  May I know Him forever, and may I cleave to Him always.