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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Anand Thakur
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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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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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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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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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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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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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