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.
MAX LUCADOThe 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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Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.
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Don’t be defined by your failures, be refined by them.
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Meet your fears with faith.
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God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us.
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Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.
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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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Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, “Do you like it? I did it just for you.”
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The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.
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When grace moves in guilt moves out.
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God does uncommon things through common people in common places.
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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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Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.
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I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.
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Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
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