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Don’t be defined by your failures, be refined by them.

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God has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.
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Children Fall Father God Trust
Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.
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Blessing Eyes Gratitude Ourselves
Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.
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Prayer Quick Stop Talk Yourself
Be patient. God is using today’s difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.
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Difficult God Growth Help Himself Patience Strength
God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
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God Love People
The key is this: Meet today’s problems with today’s strength. Don’t start tackling tomorrow’s problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow’s strength yet. You simply have enough for today.
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Enough Problem Simplicity Strength
Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.
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Choice Decision Fight Option
Engage with the Bible. Meditate on it day and night. Think and rethink about God’s Word. Let it be your guide. Make it your go-to book for questions. Let it be the ultimate authority in your life.
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Authority Day Home Life Night Religious Thinking
God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue… He is able to do what you can’t. He already has a plan. God’s not bewildered. Go to Him.
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Accomplishment God Himself Path Planning
Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.
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God Problem Yourself
What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.
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Feeling Independence Option Prayer Reason Thinking
Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.
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Best God Himself Kill Prayer
Focus on giants – you stumble. Focus on God – Giants tumble.
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Belief Focus God Hope Inspirational Yourself
Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.
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Deep Expectation Heaven Nature
Here’s what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.
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Inspirational Live Mindset Present Yourself
First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God’s high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.
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Choice Expression Force God Hell Himself Man People Simplicity

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