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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

You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.
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God Grace Resistance Time Yourself
We’re so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.
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Deep Effort Gratitude Realization Recognition Rich
Learning never takes place while you’re talking.
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Learning Place Talk Yourself
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
What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!
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Break Change Design Divine Heart Yourself
The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
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Day Decision Determination Health Marriage Yourself
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
The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
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Generosity Life Value Yourself
You can’t influence people you refuse to associate with.
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Association Influence People Refusal Yourself
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
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Giving Investment Sacrifice
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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Ability Freedom Story Yourself
The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
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Goal Navigate Uncertainty
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.
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Education God Ignorance Virtue Wisdom
One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.
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Believe Excitement God Live Ourselves Planning
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Application Christian Holy
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
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
Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
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Accomplishment May Raises
Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what’s right.
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Difference Inspirational Leadership Right Wrong Yourself
If you devote yourself to more than yourself … you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.
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Devotion Yourself
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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Honor Order Planning
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
What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, “tenth.” For some people, that’s extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.
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Give Mean People Percentage
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
Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.
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Development Leader Strategy
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Ink Planning Vision Writing
Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
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Morning Simple Sunday

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