Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Anand Thakur
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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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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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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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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