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Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone. - Proverbs 16:24

Too preachy about eating "right"! Acting like God only created organic foods and everyone needs to eat a ketosis diet or they'll die. God made sugar, too.

"Heavenly father, I recommit myself to the house of prayer for all nations. Lord, You have brought me to Your mountain and made me joyful in the House of Prayer. I will enjoy the house of prayer and I will take my place in it. I drive out prayerlessness, laziness, slothfulness, lukewarmness, and apathy. Let a fresh wind of prayer blow into our church. I believe it and I receive it in Jesus's name."

"Lord, I pray for religious leaders who are not leading your people righteously. Open their eyes to their own injustices. Empower them by Your Spirit to repent and be delivered. Lord, I pray that a new spirit of prayer will sweep through the body of Christ. I thank You for salvation and deliverance coming to my country, and for revival coming to the Church."

"Lord, I pray for deliverance to hit this nation, for devils to be cast out, for strongholds to be broken, for wickedness to be loosed, for the power of the HOLY SPIRIT to hit this nation, for a mighty power of deliverance to sweep my church, my nation, Your global church, and all of the nations of the earth in the name of Jesus."

"Let wicked leaders be exposed and if they do not repent, let them be removed from their positions. Let righteous leaders arise and take their place."

"What stood out to me [re: Matthew 21:12 -] was that when you don't appreciate something, God will take it from you and give it to somebody who does. You can have something so special but take it for granted. When you had it, you abused it, neglected it, took advantage of it, mistreated it, and ignored it. But the people without it, when they get it, are so excited to have it."

"Saving Grace might well be your saving grace."

"In the movies, she may play dead, but in life she had the victory of Christ. Perhaps she should live more like a winner than a loser."

I've practiced programmed evangelism (neighborhood outreach), presence evangelism (or servant evangelism or lifestyle evangelism), proclamation evangelism (social media), persuasion evangelism (or apologetics), prayer evangelism, power evangelism (miracles, signs, and wonders), and prophetic evangelism (divine encounters).

"And just as Amos sometimes found it necessary to wound a straying sheep in order to save it, so God must now discipline His straying people."

"She'd had to pick Allie? His Allie? The only woman who'd ever made sense to him. The only woman who could make an obsession with anything in the shade of turquoise seem cute. The only woman who had ever possessed the power to steer his heart straight over a cliff - and probably still did."

"When she was fifteen, she'd adopted a mantra from a traveling evangelist. Live for God. Everything else will fall into place. She'd done well by her motto until college, then lost more of her faith in the air force. And what remained, she lost with Dax. Maybe now was the time to return. She'd chased adventure. Pursued men and what she thought was love. Maybe now it was time to pursue God with the same abandon."

"Nothing grieves me more than Christian parents who discourage their children from going to the mission field or becoming active in full-time Christian service. They have raised the kids to be obedient to God, but when obedience conflicts with Mom and Dad's plans, it becomes evident whose ends were being served by such upbringing...can be avoided if [the parent] remembers [they're] just a steward for [God]."

"Nothing grieves me more than Christian parents who discourage their children from going to the mission field or becoming active in full-time Christian service. They have raised the kids to be obedient to God, but when obedience conflicts with Mom and Dad's plans, it becomes evident whose ends were being served by such upbringing...can be avoided if [the parent] remembers [they're] just a steward for [God]."

Wonderful!