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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

Dallas Willard

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Forgiveness Grace Life
A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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$Dallas Willard Quote - Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.$

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution

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