Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Anand Thakur
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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