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Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

Andy Stanley

Direction, not intention determines your destination.
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Destination Determination Direction Yourself
Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don’t run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
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Adversity Follow Leadership Preparation Run Step
Leadership is stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable!
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Accountable Leadership Temporary Yourself
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
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Forgiveness Gift Hurt Myself Shadow Soul
Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.
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Blame Future Issues Ourselves
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God’s commands regarding sexual purity.
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Broken Dream People
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
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God Long Past Sorry Tell
Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
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Compassionate Kindness Oneself Yourself
Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
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Farmer Fear God Himself Irrational Lose
Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.
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Change Environment Growth Life Progress
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
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Communication Complex Information People
I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
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Coach Faster Own
Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.
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Help Leadership Listening Surround Talk
There’s a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.
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Believe Difference God
People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.
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Deep Live Mess People Planning
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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Gratitude Guilty Heart Positive

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