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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.

John Ortberg

Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
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
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Anand Thakur
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
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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Anand Thakur
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Anand Thakur
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.

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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.

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