A few thoughts from Pasto

• God wants to give us His Spirit so that we can communicate with Him.

• It's our secret service that the Father sees.

• When you go to pray, if you have to spend time getting the door shut, do it!

• The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is the result of spending time in the quiet, secret place.

• When we consider God's character, we're moved to worship.

• True, pure, divine love comes from God.  Jesus was a channel for God's love.

• The character of God was manifested perfectly in the Son.  God wants His nature to be manifested in His family.

• The delight of God is to make us new.

• All the goodness that Jesus expressed was because the Father was in Him.

• The devil learned the weakness of man in the Garden of Eden.  He learned the power of submitted man in the Garden of Gethsemane.

• "I pray that God would save me from evil when it's still in the seed form."  Jesus was tempted, but it never took root.

• Words have power - to hurt or to heal, to offend or to pardon.  We don't want to let any words - offensive words or words of praise - corrupt our heart.

• We may get weary in our body, but we want to be indefatigable in our spirit.

• Abraham chose peace with his brother.

• We want to choose what will bring us closer to God.

• Faith produces peace.  Faith brings us into fellowship with God.  Faith makes us inheritors of righteousness.

The testimony that stayed with me:

I obeyed the world for 19 years, and all I ever knew was bondage.  I've been obeying the voice of God for just a couple of years now, and all I've known is liberty.