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There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.

Andy Stanley

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
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Fruit Peace Spirit Wealth
Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.
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Faith God Success Yourself
We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
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Decision Future Impact Moments Ourselves Thinking
Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.
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Everyone Leader Shut Wonder
The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
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Goal Navigate Uncertainty
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
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God Myself Religious Surrender Trust Yourself
It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing’s going to change.
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Break Change Day Direction Generosity Habit Prayer Yourself
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
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Challenge Journey Leadership People Place
God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.
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God Human Stage Weakness
People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.
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Different Direction One People
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that’s when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
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Direction Happiness People Point Smart Stupidity Wisdom Yourself
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
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Better Give Up Investment Sacrifice
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
I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.
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Believe Group Preparation
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
What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.
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God Patience Time

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.

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There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.

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