Stop Expecting Rejection!

" 'You've allowed a spirit of rejection to color everything you've heard each other say,' our marriage counselor told us. 'Every time one of you said or did something, a spirit of rejection interpreted it for the other. You both have to learn to relate to one another, not expecting rejection, but expecting acceptance and receiving it.' "

Stormie Omartian. Lord, I Want to Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing. Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nashville (2000). Page 187.

Worship--By Force of Will

One night she was at home alone, feeling her aloneness with a poignancy and depth that she had never experienced until the breakup with Susan. By sheer force of her will, Karen began to worship [Jesus].


Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 69.

Day-to-day Overflowing

"[Jesus] pointed beyond an initial experience in the Holy Spirit--beyond being baptized in the Spirit--to a lifestyle bathed in Spirit fullness to the point of day-to-day overflowing. --Jack Hayford



Living the Spirit Formed Life: Growing in the 10 Principles of Spirit-Filled Discipleship. Regal: Ventura, California (2001) page 120.

Feeling Rejection

"The lie we believe when we feel rejection is, I'm not worth anything, so it's completely understandable that people will reject me. A spirit of rejection convinces you that you will be rejected, and then every word and action of other people is interpreted through the eyes of rejection."

Stormie Omartian. Lord, I Want to Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing. Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nashville (2000). Page 187.

What is Your Primary Desire?

Karen wasn't ready at first to pray for the authority to break off her relationship with Susan.... She was unsure because Susan had become everything to her, so the loss of her was overwhelming. But God was faithful. He revealed to her the truth about their relationship--how it was inspired by need and brokenness and even emotional manipulation. Karen began to realize that Susan had overtaken God as the primary desire of her heart.


Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 69.

Extravagant Excess

Living Water is provided for us in our desert wastelands, "splashed and cascaded down" in extravagant excess.



This is not a quote but a thought prompted by Jack Hayford from his book Living the Spirit Formed Life: Growing in the 10 Principles of Spirit-Filled Discipleship. Regal: Ventura, California (2001) page119, 120.

Centre of God's Will

"The key to finding God's will, in this case, was to constantly give the situation entirely to the Lord, pray about it, praise Him for His perfect will in my life, and then wait on Him for the answer. Being in the center of God's will brings great security and confidence because there is something uniquely wonderful about knowing that you are exactly where you're supposed to be. It is a guaranteed place of safety and peace."

Stormie Omartian. Lord, I Want to Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing. Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nashville (2000). Page 185.

Admission of Utter Reliance

Confession to Jesus...involves a lot more than admitting wrongdoing. It's an admission of one's utter reliance on Jesus for every aspect of the struggle: the disorder and brokenness that require His healing, the deep needs that require His guidance, the sin that requires His cleansing and release.


Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 67.

Dangerous Respectability

"Are you tempted to keep your cool, to maintain control even while asking to be made 'full of God'? I'm inclined to believe the temptation to maintain respectability is more dangerous than we might think." --Jack Hayford



Living the Spirit Formed Life: Growing in the 10 Principles of Spirit-Filled Discipleship. Regal: Ventura, California (2001) page 118.

The Most Essential

"Nothing in the believer's life is more essential to his or her becoming a daily, fully empowered replication and representative of Jesus Christ than being and keeping filled with the Holy Spirit." --Jack Hayford



Living the Spirit Formed Life: Growing in the 10 Principles of Spirit-Filled Discipleship. Regal: Ventura, California (2001) page 116

Letting Things Slide

"The danger once we know the Lord and have been walking His way is thinking that we have learned the lessons. We've read the Bible. We're receiving the blessings. And now we believe we can let things slide...while the enemy sneaks up on our blind side."

Stormie Omartian. Lord, I Want to Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing. Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nashville (2000). Page 182.

Submit the Yearning to God

Jesus...invites the needy one who craves same-sex bonding to submit the yearning to Him out of the realization that he doesn't blame the struggler for possessing the tendency....


Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 67.

I Found You, O My God

In losing all the gifts, with all their supports, I found the Giver. In losing the sense and perception of You in myself, I found You, O my God.... Oh, poor creatures who pass all your time in feeding upon the gifts of God, and think in that to be the most favored and happy, how I pity you if you stop here, short of the true rest, and cease to go forward to God Himself, through the loss of those cherished gifts in which you now delight! ...[You] never enjoy God in all His fullness, which is a loss that cannot be perfectly known in this life.


Jeanne Guyon: An Autobiography. Witaker House, New Kensington, PA (1997). Page 120.
(Madame Guyon lived from 1647 to 1717)

Enthusiasm

"'Enthusiasm' is derived from the Greek word entheos, meaning 'God is in them.' The idea of enthusiasm, historically and etymologically, has to do with a person being so full of God (or, in the pagan world, the gods or the muses) that behavior is dominated by Him in a holy sense (or by them in a pagan or even demonic sense)." --Jack Hayford



Living the Spirit Formed Life: Growing in the 10 Principles of Spirit-Filled Discipleship. Regal: Ventura, California (2001) page 117.