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Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.

Charles R. Swindoll

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
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Best Change Desire God Introduction Ourselves Surprise Work
The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.
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Accomplishment God Greatness Himself Impossible Situation Work
10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
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Attitude Decision Life Reaction Yourself
Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man’s or a woman’s shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being’s day, week, or life.
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Breathe Capacity Change Day Dreams Encouragement Human Inspirational Life Man Power Thinking Transformation Woman
The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.
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Beautiful Encouragement Religion
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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Children Day Family Live Memories Mother Ourselves
When you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you’ll get to rest and relax until He says, ‘Go.
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God Himself Humility Trust Wait
Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
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Inspirational Motivational Patience Production Sweet
When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
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Acceptance Control Discover Divine Dry Fact God Hard Hope Season Yourself
Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn’t complicated. ‘I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.’ We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.
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Believe Complication Eyes Himself Human Lesson Limitation Ourselves Simplicity Son Word
God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.
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Expectation God Himself Need Order Recovery Seek Slow Speed Voice Walk
Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn’t lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.
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Discipline Failure Greatness Investment Moments Ourselves Prayer Wind
People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.
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Beautiful Flower Garden God Himself Intimacy People Relationship
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
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Care Compassionate Earth Heaven Inspirational Spiritual Tears
God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Expectation God Himself Need Order Recovery Seek Slow Speed Voice Walk
We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn’t come naturally. It’s a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.
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Choice Exercise God Himself Natural Spiritual Thinking Trust

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