We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough, to stand before a holy God.

Prayer without faith is as futile as a body without breathe.

Though the fire and water tried to overtake me, I have come out to a place of great abundance and God has given me hope again.

I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'.

Take away the pomp and circumstance, at the end of the day, only eternal things will be truly celebrated.