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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’

Elisabeth Elliot

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
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Better Father God Order Willing
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
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Gentle Love Man Relationship Requirement Woman
Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
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God Hard Life Time Yourself
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Circumstance Different Secret
Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
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Acceptance Affection Authority Beginning Understand
I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God’s business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.
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Business God Himself Ocean Planning Prayer
The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.
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Blessing Care Discipline God Himself Man Seek Walk
What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
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Action Feeling Myself
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
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Instant Life Oneself Surrender Time
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ”in spirit and in truth.” Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.
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Act Discipline Experience Feeling Mindset Worship
We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.
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Evidence God Guide Hands Himself Imagination Promise
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
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Better Big End Expectation God Willing
Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for
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Forever God Heart Heaven Himself Settle World
If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
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Faith Need Religious Uncertain Unknown Walk
The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
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Different Fact Kind Myself Religion Woman
We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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Ourselves Scripture Thinking

For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, ‘Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?’

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