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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.

Timothy Keller

The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Behavior Challenge More Racially Salvation Understand
We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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Come God However Look Say Wash
If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Frown God Inconsequential Other Smile
Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Accept Accepted Bible Different Every Gospel Page Religion Show Utterly
Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Bad Experience God Good Handle Live Our Out Powerful Prayer Taken Thing Turn
If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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God Grace Hard Humility Kind Muster Need Nothing Spiritual Want
Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Emotion Every Prayer Processed Single
There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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Hand Hold Inspirational Need People Reach Some
How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Behavior Bless Change Worship
Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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Christ Good Identity Performance Person Record Religion
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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Become God Happiness Happy Mean Most Tend Thing
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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Anything Become Fundamental God Identity Idol Idols Life Meaning
So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Bless Eternal Experience Many People Promise Succes Thing Time
When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Pray Proper Still Suffer
The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Creation Escape Jesus Purpose Put Renew Restore Right World
The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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Assurance Christian God Great Heart Much Set Unshakably

The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.

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