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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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Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.
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Age Mess Stay Strong Yourself
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia.
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Creation Fear Form Spiritual
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
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Belief Faith God Right
You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.
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Accident Confidence Nature Planning Positive Success
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
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
God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.
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God Grace Life Mess Word
Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.
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Deep Expectation Heaven Nature
God sees in you a masterpiece about to happen.
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God Pieces See Self Love Yourself
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
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God Love Photograph Yourself
No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren’t praying. When we pray, we aren’t worrying.
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God Prayer Religious Time Worry
Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.
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Himself Inspirational Ourselves World
Prayer pushes us through life’s slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.
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God Need Prayer Religious Seek
God does uncommon things through common people in common places.
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God Magic People Place
If you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today? Then do it!
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Action Death Yourself
Don’t worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It’s not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.
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Faith God Heart Himself Honesty Right Seek Word Worry
God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.
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God Hands Heart Himself Trust
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
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 can’t fill you when you are already full of yourself.
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Deep God Yourself
Find joy in the ordinary.
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Happiness Inspirational Joy One Liner Ordinary
Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.
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Enemy Forgiveness Hope Myself Poison
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.
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Control Failure Grace Joy Kindness Love Patience Seek Thankful
Don’t be defined by your failures, be refined by them.
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Choice Failure Yourself
Focus on giants – you stumble. Focus on God – Giants tumble.
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Belief Focus God Hope Inspirational Yourself
What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?
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Gratitude Morning Thankful Wake Up Yourself
People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
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Act Inspirational Listening People Talk

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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