Reading is from James 4:4-10

The exodus was not a movement from slavery to freedom, but from slavery to covenant. Redemption was for relationship with the redeemer, to serve his interests and his purposes in the world.    ~ Christopher Wright, Missiologist / Old Testament Scholar

Our communion with God lies in his giving himself to us and our giving ourselves and all that he requires to him. This communion with God flows from that union which is in Christ Jesus.~ John Owen, 1616-1683, pastor, theologian and Oxford academic

Everyone can prosper in this world, but the end is different. Those who worked with God, their works speak for eternity. If you did not work with God, then your works have a time frame… they die when you die. ~ Dr Paul Gitwaza, 1971- , Evangelist & Preacher, Rwanda, E. Africa

When the enemy realizes he can’t derail God’s covenant with you, he’ll work overtime to derail your faith response to it.  ~ Andrena Sawyer, 1986- , Ministry Strategist, Author, Consultant

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. ~ Vance Havner, 1901-1986, Pastor and Evangelist

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it’s there for emergencies but he hopes he’ll never have to use it. ~ C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963, ‘The Problem of Pain’

The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night. ~ John Piper, 1946- , Author, ‘A Hunger for God’