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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

John Ortberg

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
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
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself

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