If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
ELISABETH ELLIOTFor one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’
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Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
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God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
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A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
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You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.
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I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
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