Monday, October 25, 2010

"We are never free until we are detached.  Holy detachment comes when we live not for our wishes or for another human or for our future, but only for God.  He is our life.  God does not want people who are grabbing for what they can get.  God wants people who can hold everything—their profession, their wealth, their status, their family—on an open palm.  The only thing we are to clutch to our hearts is God himself." ---Dennis Kinlaw in This Day With the Master

"There is only one thing God wants of us, and that is our unconditional surrender." ---Oswald Chambers

"Try an experiment today. Rather than praying for THINGS, pray instead for PEOPLE. Just for today. Open your heart to someone you know, someone you love—and pray for them. Then watch and wait to see how God responds. You just might be so amazed that it becomes a regular exercise from today forward. So much so that indeed you may be able to say along with the apostle Paul, 'Every time I say your name in prayer—which is practically all the time—I thank God for you.' " ---James Ryle