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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

If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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Church Giving Leader
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
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Church Hands Leader
God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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Leader Moving Stuff
Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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Cooperation Moments Mysterious
Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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Decisions You Leader Make Spirit
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.
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Leader Read Serious
If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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Desperation Discipline Learned Prayer
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It’s true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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Equipment Exercise Prayer
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
I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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Encouraging Evil Giving Humble Somebody
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
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
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Asleep Church Lifetime Thinking Years
Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.
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Conversation Credibility Way
You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
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Pursue Safe Vision
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
It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8.
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Bible Leader Spiritual

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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