To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.
If you don't discover God's dreams, you'll either waste your life running in wrong races and crossing wrong finish lines or, like many people, have no finish line at all.
Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.
The only logical answer to the question of why Elijah needed to pray is to imply that God has chosen to work through people. Even when it is the Lord himself initiating something, earnestly desiring to do it, He still needs us to ask.
Baal-hamon, one of Baal's names, means "the lord of wealth or abundance. " Chuck Pierce believes, and I agree, that this is the principality warring against the great transfer of wealth to the Church. You must war against this spirit to see your inheritance released. Claim Jeremiah 51:44 (Bel in this verse is Baal).
A lack of endurance is one of the greatest causes of defeat, especially in prayer.
You may or may not be aware of it, but you have a dreaming nature. You inherited this part of your disposition from your Creator. He created us in His image and likeness so our hearts could relate to His and His dreaming heart could find millions of expressions.
Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
Marines are very good at fighting. . . And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.
I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never ever again come back.
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.