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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.

John Ortberg

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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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
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
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 most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value

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