Charles Kraft Quotes

When we bless people and treat them lovingly, we are using our status the way God intended.

Being unemployed, Kurt set in motion a routine that he would follow for the rest of his life. He would rise at around noon and eat a brunch of sorts. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese was his favorite food. After eating, he would spend the rest of the day doing one of three things: watching television, which he did unceasingly; practicing his guitar, which he did for hours a day, usually while watching TV; or creating some kind of art project, be it a painting, collage, or three-dimensional installation. This last activity was never formal— he rarely identified himself as an artist—yet he spent hours in this manner.

I continue to take critiques like his seriously, but I will not stop working in Jesus' authority merely because people do not like what I am doing. If I must choose between helping a person to freedom by using approaches not found in Scripture (though not antiscriptural) or else allowing that person to remain in bondage because my approach is not specifically taught in scripture, I choose to help. The fact that God blesses our efforts so regularly, using them to bring freedom to people in amazing ways, encourages us to continue both ministering and experimenting to find better ways to help people, in spite of the criticism. I take the approach of D.L. Moody, who said, I understand, in response to a person criticizing his evangelistic methods, "I like the way I do it better than the way you don't do it.

We were intended for second place. We are created “only a little lower than God” (Psalm 8:5, nlt), in the image of God Himself (Genesis 1:26). Our position at Creation (as we saw in the last chapter) was far above all created beings, including the angels—in second place in the universe. We must never forget this, for the enemy will not be content until he has blotted it out of our minds.

An important part of responsibility is to not neglect it. I wonder how often we have neglected the authority Jesus has given us by not applying His power to illness, weather, poverty or other life situations that He expects us, as His agents, to deal with? I wonder how many people Jesus heals directly because we do not participate? Worse yet, how many go unhealed because we who have been commissioned to operate in Jesus’ authority and power have neglected our responsibility?

The Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid [or fearful]; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control” (2 Timothy 1:7).

was to happen. We also claimed His protection from demonic attack for all of us and for our families. Our prayer apparently roused a demon called Anger. As I tried to question Sue concerning her problems, Anger insisted on butting into our conversation. He seemed to be at about level 5 or 6 on our scale, so he had the strength to interfere. If the demon had not interrupted us, I would have paid no attention to him until the inner work had been done, even though, on the basis of what

bit of pain, but the demon’s arrogant words and threats stopped completely. Once the demon was thus bound, I began questioning Sue about her past. After a few minutes, she confessed that she was harboring deep anger toward her husband in response to his constant verbal abuse throughout their marriage. After again asking the Holy Spirit to guide us, I led Sue to picture herself in one of those abusive situations. I asked Sue to let herself feel again her hurt

done,

Studies show that the two greatest stress-producing factors to body, mind, and emotions are the death of a spouse and divorce.

God has set certain limitations on Himself by giving to humans and, apparently, to angels a certain amount of autonomy that we can use, if we choose, even to oppose the One who gives it to us.

I lived most of my life with a Charlie Brown or Murphy’s Law attitude that said, “It’s normal for things to go wrong, so if anything goes right, it must be a mistake.

converting cannot leave certain American values unchanged. For although God is willing to start where Americans are, he is not content if we continue to be crippled by simply continuing in our commitment to the values in which we have been trained.