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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Dallas Willard

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
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Anand Thakur
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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
Keep eternity before the children.
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Anand Thakur
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
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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Anand Thakur
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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Anand Thakur
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Abundance Obedience One Liner
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Anand Thakur
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
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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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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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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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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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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

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