We need to be honest with ourselves. We need a place where we can sit down, reflect, and mourn. However, we must be careful not to mourn over the past longer than necessary. After the funeral, there is always a burial. The burial separates the survivor from the deceased, and it is as far as we can go. So you must come to a place of separation and decide to live on.

Actually, isn't that what we want to know—our purpose? Then we can use the power to become who we really are. Life has chiseled many of us into mere fragments of who we were meant to be. To all who receive Him, Christ gives the power to slip out of who they were forced into being so they can transform into the individual they each were created to be.

You, His fruit, having descended into the depths like Christ after being crushed, experienced the Inner Court fermentation. Now, however, that grape no longer exists. Something else has taken its place. The grape is now wine, having risen with new life in a new form like Christ. As a result, the veil that has always stood between the Vintner and the grapes no longer exists between the King and His wine.

People tend to glorify the past, especially when they are struggling with the future.

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live like a new creature and he will confess Christ.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.