God has a purpose in bringing hateful people into our lives and it's not to harbor offenses in hatred and unforgiveness. We are to witness love.

Jesus is Love and if I let Him be my Life, then Love will express itself through my life and doings. Yes, it is true, all we need is Love!

‘God, whatever it takes for me to get to know You, I want it, because there's nothing else that can satisfy my heart like You.’

God's ways are not our ways. His love is often rough and easily seen as cruel. His love batters our hearts until our hearts are completely His.

Batter My Heart, Oh God! Let's look at someone in the Bible who lived with an open heart towards God to see if God battered it.

Either God catches us like a fish with a hook (enticing and wooing) or He hunts us like game (force to break, overthrow, imprison).

There is no diminishing a living testament to the great Love that makes all things new, so let's end the week with a love story like this one.

Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Batter my heart three-personed God, for I'm lost unless You ravage me! You must quell my passions and bend me—yes, even bruise me. I will be yours!

Whichever way you choose, God supports. It's amazing how much the prodigal's father supported his son's choice. He enabled him to go and held back nothing!

I don’t celebrate a pagan holiday. No, I pray with exuberant joy that Jesus' name will come to be known to lost multitudes throughout the Christmas season.

The more God shows this debtor of the vast, Everest-like mountain of forgiveness I require, the more joy I have in extending forgiveness to someone else.