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

Dallas Willard

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
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Anand Thakur
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
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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