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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

John Ortberg

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself

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