The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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More Bill Hybels Quotes
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It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
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Prayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
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It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.
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