Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.
It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.
Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.
Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field.
