A few thoughts from Quito convention

• It takes effort to humble ourselves, but God wants to help us.
• If God is going to be able to make us like Jesus, we must be completely committed to the process.
• Murmuring against our brethren is really murmuring against God.
• Our human is not attracted to the things of God.
• One of the secrets of Timothy's success was that he could be advised and instructed.
• Matt. 23 - This chapter applies to the tendency in every one of us to be like the Pharisees.
• We have to sacrifice on the correct altar - the will of God.  That's the only sacrifice that brings blessing.
• God's temple, our body, has no value without the presence of God.
• When we respond to the voice of Jesus, He will protect us from all that is wrong around us as well as every wrong tendency within ourselves.
• God is a giver, not a taker.  He draws us to Himself to give us something, and He loves what He is trying to give us.
• We worship God by seeking to have a spirit like Him.
• God's love is one of the most misunderstood things in the world.  How does God love us?  He loves us by making us like Jesus.
• We show our love for God by trying to be like Jesus.
• Choose what is good by how it affects our spirit.
• We don't want to miss out on the most important thing in life just because we feel unworthy of it.
• When the younger son in Luke 15 left the house, he felt worthy to receive what was his, but he returned with another feeling completely.
• We're all citizens of somewhere.  What are we choosing?
• A truly professing person has the feeling, "I don't belong to this world; I belong to God."
• Elizabeth and Mary had wonderful fellowship together despite being in very different situations.  (great joy for Elizabeth, possible humiliation for Mary)
• The thing that is important is how we appear in the eyes of God.
• Our enemy wants to impoverish us.
• Bread from God comes in the secret place.