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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

John Ortberg

If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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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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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
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
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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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
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
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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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

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