Whatever We Focus On Determines

The Opponent Strikes You On Your Cheek, And You Strike Him On The Heart By Your Amazing Spiritual Audacity In Turning The Other Cheek. You Wrest The Offensive From Him By Refusing To Take His Weapons, By Keeping Your Own, And By Striking Him In His Conscience From A Higher Level. He Hits You Physically, And You Hit Him Spiritually.

God, To Redeem Us At The Deepest Portion Of Our Nature - The Urge To Love And Be Loved - Must Reveal His Nature In An Incredible And Impossible Way. He Must Reveal It At A Cross.

I See That I Am Inwardly Fashioned For Faith And Not For Fear. Fear Is Not My Native Land; Faith Is. I Am So Made That Worry And Anxiety Are Sand In The Machinery Of Life; Faith Is Oil. I Live Better By Faith And Confidence Than By Fear And Doubt And Anxiety. In Anxiety And Worry My Being Is Gasping For Breath - These Are Not My Native Air. But In Faith And Confidence I Breath Freely - These Are My Native Air.

A Johns Hopkins Doctor Says That 'we Do Not Know Why It Is That The Worriers Die Sooner Than The Non-worriers, But That Is A Fact.' But I, Who Am Simple Of Mind, Think I Know We Are Inwardly Constructed, In Nerve And Tissue And Brain Cell And Soul, For Faith And Not For Fear. God Made Us That Way. Therefore, The Need Of Faith Is Not Something Imposed On Us Dogmatically, But It Is Written In Us Intrinsically. We Cannot Live Without It. To Live By Worry Is To Live Against Reality.

Continuing A Lenten Series On Prayer: Prayer Is Co-operation With God. It Is The Purest Exercise Of The Faculties God Has Given Us - An Exercise That Links These Faculties With The Maker To Work Out The Intentions He Had In Mind In Their Creation.