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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

John Ortberg

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
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
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
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
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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
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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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
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

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