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Find joy in the ordinary.

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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
When you’re full of yourself, God can’t fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
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Empty God Religious Yourself
The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.
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Fall Garden Religious Story
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
If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.
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Choice God Leaving Oneself 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
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
God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.
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Eyes Father God Himself Ourselves See Value
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
Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.
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God Problem 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
Don’t be defined by your failures, be refined by them.
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Choice Failure Yourself
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia.
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Creation Fear Form Spiritual
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
God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don’t feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what!
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Divorce God I Love You Ignorance Leaving Simplicity Togetherness Yourself
You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done – but simply because you are.
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Existence Simplicity Value Yourself

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