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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.

Elisabeth Elliot

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Circumstance Different Secret
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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Better Big End Expectation God Willing
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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Hands Leaving Wound Yourself
We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
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Evidence God Guide Hands Himself Imagination Promise
Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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Forever God Heart Heaven Himself Settle World
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
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Happiness Himself Love Myself Obedience Thinking
The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God, or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
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Add Choice God Government Life Principle Willing World
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
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Discover God Greatness Heart Life Peace Simplicity Willing
Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies.
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God Himself Mercy Perspective Rejection Time
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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Come Government Peace Soul Teaching
God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
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Better Desire Expectation God Heart Ourselves
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.
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Change Impatience Joy Ourselves Peace
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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Generosity Habit Life Morning Myself Offering Prayer Thankful Yourself
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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Heart Himself Learning Obedience Prayer Slow Sorrow
God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.
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Beyond God Himself Holy Obedience Talk Trust
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
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Different Fact Kind Myself Religion Woman

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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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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