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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

The Church is a family expecting guests.
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Expectation Family God Guest
Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.
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Blame Future Issues Ourselves
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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Break Up Dreams Family Sexuality
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
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Behavior Creation People Problem System Yourself
Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.
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Faith God Love Oneself True
Lord, give me the wisdom to know what’s right and the courage to do what’s right-even when it’s hard.
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Courage Hard Myself Right Wisdom
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they’ve lost they’re ability to recognize that they’re rich.
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Challenge Matter People
If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.
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Difficult Old Originate Teaching
Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
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God Hands Need Thinking Trust Yourself
Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
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Line People Thankful Time
If you see your brother in need, it doesn’t matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother’s unexpected need.
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Brother Expectation God Ideas Need Open
Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.
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Men Soul Tension Vision
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
Your beliefs shape your attitudes!
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Attitude Belief Introxicant Shape
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

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