Quito convention - Nov. 24-26, 2017

• We don't need to know from which direction the adversary's roar is coming; we just need to know where our refuge is.

• Rest in our soul is a priceless gift.

• God loves to feel His children trusting in Him.

• There are many yokes that we can bear in this world - trying to do our own will, bearing our own sin - that become very heavy.  We can go to Jesus and trade burdens.

• Many entered into the Promised Land but not into the promised rest.  Moses didn't enter into the Promised Land, but he did enter into the promised rest of God.

• We want to be filled with grace so that we can fulfill the purpose of God within us.

• Now is the time to cry out to God, the day of our salvation.

• We could do what is right with a spirit that is wrong.

• When Ruth left Moab, she left everything of Moab in Moab.  As a result, she had a good testimony.

• Jesus' thoughts always caused Him to do the will of the Father.

• When the Lord passed over Egypt on the night of the Passover, He wasn't looking for good people; He was looking for the blood on the doorpost.  Nobody would have put their hope in anything else.

• Being different in this world is not an embarrassment; it's an opportunity to manifest Christ.

• God is not the only potter.  Every potter has a different design in mind.  God wants to give us depth so that we can contain more of the treasures that are in Christ.

• At a wedding, it's very evident who the bride is.  Is it evident that we are a part of the bride of Christ?

• Jesus never used anything for His help that wasn't/isn't available to His disciples: the Holy Spirit, the fellowship of faithful brethren, the word of God.

• There are many kingdoms: the mineral kingdom, the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, the human kingdom, the heavenly kingdom.  The mineral kingdom supports the plant kingdom, but a mineral never becomes a plant.  The plant kingdom supports the animal kingdom, but a plant never becomes an animal.  The animal kingdom supports the human kingdom, but an animal never becomes a human.  Think of the generosity of God to enable humans to enter into the eternal kingdom!

• God's messengers can tell about new life, but God alone can give it.

• The deepest expression of faith is submission to God.

• The wrath of God is not just because man sins but because God has provided a remedy and man has not accepted it.

• Jesus' prayer, "May they all be one" is a prayer that we can have a part in answering.  It means first being united with Jesus.  Then we can be united with each other.