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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Bill Hybels

It’s spelled ‘D-O-N-E’, which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God’s gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
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Christian Done Forgiveness Gift Ourselves
Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
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
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
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
Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
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Day Lead Privilege Savor
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Goal Stewardship Wonderful
Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
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Awareness Self
One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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Engage Hands Self The Reality
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
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Beget Example Grit
It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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Coincidence Praying
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
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Gains Insight Something
There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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Attention Escaped Motivation Undivided
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
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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Local Church Locals Nothing
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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Courage Encouraging Uplifting
God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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Appreciate Father 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
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
Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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Authenticity Business Spiritual
Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
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Figure Leader Map
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
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
Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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Each Other Enables Humility
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Children Praying Proud
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
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