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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

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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
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Abundance Obedience One Liner
Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Anand Thakur
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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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’s address is at the end of your rope.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
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

Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

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