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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

John Ortberg

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
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
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
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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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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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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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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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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

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