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If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

Elisabeth Elliot

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Faith Need Religious Uncertain Unknown Walk
Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
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Myself Need Reminder Talk
Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.
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Act Choice Death Errors Feeling Forget Necessary Obedience Possible
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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Hands Leaving Wound Yourself
You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
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Believe God Himself Necessary Understand
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
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Different Hard Imagination Limitation Nature Ourselves Reality Suffering Togetherness Tragedy Vision
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
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
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Circumstance Different Secret
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
A whole lot of what we call ‘struggling’ is simply delayed obedience.
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Obedience Simplicity Struggle
Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
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Failure Healing Heaven Himself Order Recognition
God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don’t have now, we don’t need now.
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God Material Need Promise Requirement
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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Generosity Habit Life Morning Myself Offering Prayer Thankful Yourself
What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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Answer Enough God Prayer Urgent
Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
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Come Government Peace Soul Teaching
I believe with all my heart God’s Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
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Believe Experience Face God Greatness Happiness Heart Myself

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