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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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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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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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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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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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