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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

John Ortberg

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
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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Anand Thakur
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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