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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.

John Ortberg

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
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
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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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
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
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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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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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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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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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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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