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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.

John Ortberg

Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True

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