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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

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
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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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
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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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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
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
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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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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