"It is Impossible to please God without faith. Jesus headed off to do what He needed to do and the disciples said Look they want to kill you there, don't go back to that area. And Jesus said I'm going anyway. And they looked at each other and kind of shurgged their shoulders and said, 'Well lets go die with him.' In a sense, they were warped. In a sense, they were being devoted. But they weren't believing. They were doing something believing that it would result in nothing. ...When God has commanded me to do something there's a reason for it and there is an end result. Although I might not see the promise, although I might not grasp it in my hand, there is an end result. I will do this! Because God is truth. Because He is, and He is a rewarder of those who seek Him! If I obey Him there is a reason for it - an end result that is good. I see so many people that almost treat themselves as though they were martyrs and martyred by God. 'I'll serve Him for the sake of nothing.'"

"If you close yourself off from God... you can really miss out on what God's going to do. ...Possibly Jesus came to you and said, Behold! I want you to do this! And so you started going, but you've fallen into the trap of 'This is God's will for my life.' And you're missing the fact that maybe now He wants you to go into another direction, or maybe He wants you to run in a different way, or do a different thing. And so we always have to be seeking Him. Always believing that He is the rewarder, never getting trapped in some spiritual rut, thinking, 'Okay, this is what I do. Now God doesn't need to talk to me anymore.' We have to believe that He's the rewarder of those who seek Him, and you have to begin seeking Him again if you're not seeking Him now. Every aspect of your life, seek Him. Every aspect. I don't care what it is."