The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen to pray is to see and breathe.

By the time we were knit in our mothers wombs our lives were like open books before Him--every sentence read every paragraph indented every chapter titled every page numbered. He knew it all in advance--all the sin all the selfishness every weakness. Yet He chose to love us--lavishly.

God almighty Franny he said. If youre going to say the Jesus Prayer at least say it to Jesus and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidis grandfather all wrapped up in one. Keep him in mind if you say it and him only and him as he was and not as youd like him to have been.

My intellect is so limited Lord that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

The flesh resists this daily humiliation first by a frontal attack and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit i.e. in the name of evangelical liberty. We claim liberty from all legal compulsion from self-martyrdom and mortification and play this off against the proper evangelical use of discipline and asceticism we thus excuse our self-indulgence and irregularity in prayer in meditation and in our bodily life. But the contrast between our behavior and the word of Jesus is all too painfully evident. We forget that discipleship means estrangement from the world and we forget the real joy and freedom which are the outcome of a devout rule of life. As soon as a Christian recognizes that he has failed in his service that his readiness has become feeble and that he has sinned against anothers life and become guilty of anothers guilt that all his joy in God has vanished and that his capacity for prayer has quite gone it is high time for him to launch an assault upon the flesh and prepare for better service by fasting and prayer Luke 237 42 Mark 929 1 Cor. 75.

The more of Christianity is a myth a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles always seeking but never finding always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Trutha carrot on a stick if you will.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.

Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise youre not really praying. Youre just pontificating.You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye smile and say Hello.