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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.

John Ortberg

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself

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