The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
The biblical basis is the numerous biblical texts which describe prophecy as a spiritual gift that should characterize God's people in the age of the New Covenant.
Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!
The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!
Grace does not demonize our desires nor destroy them nor lead us to deny them. Grace is the work of the Holy Spirit in transforming our desires so that knowing Jesus becomes sweeter than illicit sex, sweeter than money and what it can buy, sweeter than every fruitless joy. Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!
The Spirit has determined that he will operate through certain means and at certain times and if we sinfully put obstacles or warnings or prohibitions in the way, he may well not do for us what he otherwise would have done.
God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.
I live for now, not for what happens after I die.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.