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Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

Bill Hybels

I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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Fall Knees Plain Prayer Writing
The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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Beats Days Onlooker Worst
The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
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Behavior Humans Levels
I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
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Faithful God Praying Tonight Trust
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t.
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Input Leader Read Serious
Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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Day Each Ears Heaven
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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Focus Moving Prayer Sufficient
Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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Character Quality Spiritual
It’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan
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Christian Day Each God Plan
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Local Church Locals Nothing
It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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Bother Clarity Night Perfect Understand
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
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Believe Leader Wise
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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Destructive Invites Track
Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.
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Leaders Matters World
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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Failure Helping Improving Leader
You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way
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Day Every Used Way
The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Grander Price Tag Vision
And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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Christ Country Eventually Positive Redeeming
Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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Conversation Credibility Way
For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
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Flourish Proud Relationship Spouse
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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Creative Leadership People
God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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God Made Purpose
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Goal Stewardship Wonderful
Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!
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Play Soar Spectators
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
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Discipline Doe Heaven
Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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Day Lead Privilege Savor
Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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Levels Lord Noise

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