Joe Warren’s Reviews > Meeting God Face to Face: Daily Encouragement to Seek His Presence and Favor > Status Update

"Religion is the antithesis of the kingdom of God. And the kingdom - the realm of the King's domain - is what every man, woman, and child longs for deep within their hearts. Religion creates appetites it cannot fulfill. By nature it carries a value for form without power, information without experience. It makes outward appearance a priority over issues of the heart."

Appropriately the history of Israel begins, just as the Christian life does, with such an act of radical obedience - a man left the human boundaries that had hitherto defined his life and stepped into a journey of total dependence on God's perspective and commands.

Like the members of a human body, every part of the body of Christ is unique, yet each finds its significance and function only in relationship to the rest of the body, particularly the brain.

Finding wisdom is the process of discovering and correctly aligning our lives in relationship with the head, Christ, and with our unique destiny to express an aspect of His nature in a way no one else can.

In the same measure that faithfulness is rewarded, unfaithfulness is judged.

"If you can accomplish your dream on your own, that is a sure sign that your dream is too small. We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts."

If you gain favor with people, you gain access to them. The same is true about gaining favor with God;

At your conversion you learned God's grace is His unmerited favor toward men through the blood of His Son, but it also means that you have access to the very presence of God in the same way that Jesus did.

Does the knowledge that you have the same access to the Father as Jesus affect your thinking and behavior?