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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.

Bill Hybels

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
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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Courage Encouraging Uplifting
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
Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.
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God Leadership Position Seriously
If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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Desperation Discipline Learned Prayer
Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.
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Attack Hurt Passion Personal Real
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
Prayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
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Cutting Numbers People
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
Build something with enduring value.
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Endure Something Values
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
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Failure Helping Improving Leader
Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
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Authenticity Business Spiritual
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
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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Hate Real Teaching
If you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
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Battle Fighting Home Running
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

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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