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Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

Bill Hybels

Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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Change Character God never
If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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Growth Request Timing
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
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
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
The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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Best Gift Giving Introduction
When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community.
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Changing Country Jesus Life
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
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
The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.
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Envisioning Leadership Organization
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
Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships.
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Ideas Long People Underestimate
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
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Delight Pouring Risk
God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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God Made Purpose
God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
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Crowns Easter Jesus
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
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Church Healing Suffering

Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

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