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Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.

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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 gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
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God Love People
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
A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
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Exploration Glory God Problem Reward Season Suffering
Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.
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Difference Oneself Ourselves Prayer Stay
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
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 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
God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us.
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Connection God Spiritual
As we meditate on Christ’s life, we find strength for our own.
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Life Ourselves Strength
Find joy in the ordinary.
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Happiness Inspirational Joy One Liner Ordinary
Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.
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Deep Expectation Heaven Nature
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
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
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
God can’t fill you when you are already full of yourself.
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Deep God Yourself
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
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.
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Anxiety Fear Imagination Relationship
If you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today? Then do it!
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Action Death Yourself
God does uncommon things through common people in common places.
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God Magic People Place
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
Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary’s finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that’s what love does. It puts the beloved before itself.
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Fingers Himself Humble Love Stars
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
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
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
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, “I can clean that if you want.” And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.
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Act Darkness Grace Kindness Live Ourselves Reach Sin
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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