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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

Dallas Willard

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
DALLAS WILLARD

Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Anand Thakur
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
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
The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Anand Thakur
Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Answer Believe Right True
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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Anand Thakur
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Anand Thakur
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

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