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No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It’s an emptiness only God can fill.

Lysa TerKeurst

We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God’s promises in every area of our lives.
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Area Compromise God Live Ourselves Promise
Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.
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Comfortable Experience God True Zone
Sometimes it’s the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.
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Character Choice Ourselves Talk Time Word
Raw emotions – anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment – are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.
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Angry Emotion Frustration Hide Love People
Remember: even the smallest drop of God’s strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.
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Enough God Ourselves Remember Small Strength Weakness
God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.
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Break God Love People Possible Surprise
My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world.
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Children Goal God Goodness Live Love Raise World
I want to honor Jesus with the things I say and the things I choose not to say. Lord, help us all be so careful with sharing opinions as if they are truth.
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Care Choice Myself Opinion Share Truth
What if God’s ‘NO,’ is really a gift? His way to protect us from what we cannot see, provide something better than we can imagine, or be part of the process of growing us closer to Him.
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Gift God Growth Himself Imagination Process Protection
When to give grace? I’d rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.
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God Grace Judgement Love Myself Regret Stand
Love isn’t what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.
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Generosity Love Myself Opportunity World
Don’t let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.
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Appointment Future Hope Hurt
It’s not my perfect performance that captures God’s attention. It’s my complete dependence on Him that He notices.
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Capture God Himself Notice Perfection Performance
Trusting God’s plan is the only secret I know in the gentle art of not freaking out.
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Art God Myself Planning Trust
My imperfections will never override God’s promises. God’s promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.
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Ability Dependent God Himself Imperfection Promise
Lord, help me to see what comes my way as an opportunity instead of an inconvenience.
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Myself Opportunity Perspective See Sight
The only way our faith can strengthen is if we use it.
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Faith Ourselves Religious Strength
Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God’s power.
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God Learning Life Power Process Religious Strength
Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.
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Assumption Born God Health Place Talk Truth
We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don’t become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn’t mean I have to be insecure.
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Insecurity Myself Need Peace
There is power in simply speaking the name Jesus.
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God Name Power Talk
Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.
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Abundance Peace Rest Stress
God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.
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Faith God Greatness People Small Willing
Great love isn’t two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.
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Greatness Love People Perfection Relationship
Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.
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Change Difference Earth Inspirational Life Power Prayer
Jesus, I don’t want to be a secret keeper with my faith. I want to be a bold and gracious truth proclaimer. For You. With You. Because of You. Me, the unwanted girl whom You loved, redeemed and wanted.
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Faith Grace Love Secret Truth Yourself
I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I’m not.
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Acceptance Guilty Learning Myself Thankful

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