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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.

Bill Hybels

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
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Commitment Leader Needs
Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
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Ability Energy Valuable
If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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Ears God Hear Noise World
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
We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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Christian Mistake Spiritual
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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Beget Example Grit
Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
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Feel Given People
These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we’re going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we’re going to do this together.
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Come People Shoulder Together
The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
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Exercise Leader Stronger
You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
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Better Increase Leadership
The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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Attention Intended Jesus Prayer
This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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God Promise Solely Throttle
One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .
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Cooperation Mysterious Nudge Prompting Simple
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Goal Stewardship Wonderful
And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.
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Brokenness Depth God People Plumbed
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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Community Conflict Spirit

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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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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