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.
BILL HYBELSGod led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we’re going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we’re going to do this together.
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We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
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If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
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It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.
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How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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People join organizations, they leave managers.
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You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.
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Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.
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Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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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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It’s spelled ‘D-O-N-E’, which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God’s gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
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Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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