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Great faith doesn’t come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

Bill Johnson

My future is drawing me into a hope-filled life that has a purpose of saying, ‘on earth as it is in Heaven.’
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Earth Filled Heaven Hope Purpose Saying
Beware ‘good’ main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.
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Character Evil Feelings Passionate
Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn’t said.
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Giving Obedience Priorities Priority
No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.
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Encouragement No One Overdosed
Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you
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Release Shadow
Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.
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Convenience Beyond Sacrifice Steps
There’s something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.
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God People Something Values
Most closed heavens for the Christian are between his ears. Believing a lie empowers the liar.
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Christians Empower Liars Lying
We don’t have the capacity to exaggerate God’s goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.
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Capacity Exaggerate God Goodness Misrepresent
You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.
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Passes Peace Right Understand Understanding
Why would anyone want to get up in the morning and not shape the course of world history?
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Anyone Course History Morning World
Once you’ve left the concept of family, you’ve left the concept of kingdom
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Cleaned Concepts Kingdoms Left
My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding.
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Giving Heart Myself Responsibility Surrender Up
Faith doesn’t deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.
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Deny Influence Problem
If you knew who God made you to be, you’d never want to be anyone else.
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Anyone God Made Want
God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.
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Demand Giving Love Return
When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.
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Kingdoms Kings Principles
Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.
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Results Strive Surrender
Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.
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Needs People Theology
We don’t believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.
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Believe Faith Understand
A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.
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Blessing Character Demonstrate Victory
God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.
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Already Dealt Occupied Pre Sin
Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.
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Divine Encounter Encounters Theology Word
The favor of God does not bless self-promotion
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God Promotion Self
One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.
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Imagination Intimacy Losing Memories Ministry Stop
If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.
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Created God Someone Want
Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship.
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Evangelism Form Worship

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