Don’t seek more days in your life but more life in your days.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLVision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.
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All he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.
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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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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
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No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.
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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people’s unique worth. It also steals contentment from the heart. Is there anything or anyone you are envious of?
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The past is over forget it. The future holds hope reach for it.
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The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.
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We shouldn’t deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
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Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!
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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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The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.
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Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.
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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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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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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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We can’t solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.
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If God’s people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be – it must be – compassion.
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People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets
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No pressure is greater than God’s power.
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The world has changed and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
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One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable.
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Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
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Authentic men aren’t afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they’re sad, admit it when they’re wrong, and ask for help when they need it.
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