Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

We grow small trying to be great.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.