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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

John Ortberg

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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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
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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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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

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