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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

John Ortberg

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
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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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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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