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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

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
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

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