True seekers are different. On meeting them you feel their purpose, their energy, their integrity, their idealism, and their desire to close in on an answer. Something in life has awakened questions, has made them aware of a sense of need, has forced them to consider where they are in life. They have become seekers because something has spurred their quest for meaning, and they have to find an answer.

It really does take grace to know how much you need grace.

We got a dying world around us.

We can depend upon it that people will never come to Jesus and stay with Jesus and live for Jesus unless they really know why they are to come and what their need is.

Weak moments don't make weak faith. Weak moments make us even more aware of our need to press in to faith.

The poor know they are in need.

When there is little awareness of real need, there is little real prayer.

Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.

For without His power at work in our hearts, we easily become unaware of the need all around us, or within us, so that we either go through the motions of Christianity or become slaves to a works-based theology—which may fool others but doesn't impress God.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.