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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”

John Ortberg

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
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
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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Anand Thakur
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
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Anand Thakur
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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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Anand Thakur
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Anand Thakur
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

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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