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God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.
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God Grace Life Mess Word
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
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Divine Faith Forgiveness God Yourself
You may go days without thinking of God, but there’s never a moment when He’s not thinking of you.
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Day God Moments Thinking 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
The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.
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Chance Differences Food Grace Himself Mercy
The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.
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Responsibility Tree Work
Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.
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Children God Parents Power
Nails didn’t hold God to a cross. Love did.
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God Hold Love
God can’t fill you when you are already full of yourself.
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Deep God Yourself
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
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
You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.
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Hurt Prayer World Yourself
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
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
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
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
When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.
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Guard Hate Jealousy Ourselves
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
God’s highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His
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Desire Goal God Himself Rich Success
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
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
Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.
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Care Life Run Thinking
You’re never without hope, because you’re never without prayer.
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Alone Hope Prayer Yourself
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
Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.
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Bird Darkness Faith Sing
As we meditate on Christ’s life, we find strength for our own.
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Life Ourselves Strength

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.

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