If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Anand Thakur
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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