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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

John Ortberg

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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
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
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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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
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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
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
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
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
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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