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[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

Charles R. Swindoll

We shouldn’t deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.
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Focus Live Ourselves Pain
God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
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Beautiful Break Confusion God Inspirational
Don’t expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances.
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Decision Expectation God Greatness Life Principle Production Religion Right Spiritual Wisdom
When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
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Anxiety Fear Focus Insecurity Religion Satisfaction
Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.
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Feeling Forget Important Problem Worry Worth
It’s a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.
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Goodness Need Religion Time Word Yourself
On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don’t quit, whatever you do. Persevere.
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Day Heart Perseverance Quit Religion Tough Yourself
We really shouldn’t look like a church.’ I’ve heard that so much I want to vomit. ‘Why?’ I ask. ‘Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor’s office to look like a doctor’s office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?’
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Appearance Choice Clothes Doctor Yourself
It’s not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.
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Believe Enough God Yourself
Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can’t light the torch of another if yours isn’t burning.
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Burn Faith Light Person Torch Yourself
All he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.
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Faith Himself Integrity Patience Stand Trust Wait
God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.
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Demand God Goodness Himself Life Pressure Strength Win
We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn’t come naturally. It’s a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.
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Choice Exercise God Himself Natural Spiritual Thinking Trust
If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don’t you be bothered with him – leave him at the throne.
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Difficult God Himself Love Person Prayer Yourself
Let`s choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and belief and compassion.
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Attitude Belief Choice Compassionate Faith Joy
People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
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Action Attitude Change Inspirational People Success
The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.
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Accomplishment God Greatness Himself Impossible Situation Work
Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends
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Choice Friendship Religion Wisdom
Authentic men aren’t afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they’re sad, admit it when they’re wrong, and ask for help when they need it.
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Afraid Attention Authentic Children Cry Father Feeling Help Men Need Sad Wrong
One of the problems with worry is that it keeps you from enjoying what you have.
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Enjoyment Problem Worry Yourself
Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.
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Change Choice Pay Praise Prayer Strength Trust
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
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Best Change Desire God Introduction Ourselves Surprise Work
10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
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Attitude Decision Life Reaction Yourself
We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.
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Attitude Choices Day Life Ourselves Reaction
The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.
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Beautiful Hard Time Inspirational Motivational Root Strong Wind
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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Children Day Family Live Memories Mother Ourselves
I’m here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.
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Adversity Attention Guard Spirit Yourself

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

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[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

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