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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

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
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.
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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.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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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
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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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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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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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
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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