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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

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The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.
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Chance Differences Food Grace Himself Mercy
Don’t worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It’s not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.
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Faith God Heart Himself Honesty Right Seek Word Worry
Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary’s finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that’s what love does. It puts the beloved before itself.
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Fingers Himself Humble Love Stars
Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.
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Best God Himself Kill Prayer
A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.
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Change Flower Life Love Rain
The next time you’re disappointed, don’t panic. Don’t give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He’s still in control.
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Control Disappoint Give Up Patience Time Yourself
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.
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Anxiety Fear Imagination Relationship
The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.
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Fall Garden Religious Story
When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.
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Guard Hate Jealousy Ourselves
Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.
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Bird Darkness Faith Sing
Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.
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Faith God Himself Life
You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done – but simply because you are.
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Existence Simplicity Value Yourself
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
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Divine Faith Forgiveness God Yourself
What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.
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Feeling Independence Option Prayer Reason Thinking
With God, every day matters, every person counts. And that includes you.
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God Person Self Love Value Worth
Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?
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Positive Time Wasted Time Worry

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

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