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Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you – to pray more, trust more, expect more.

Rick Warren

God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
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Book Circumstance God Problem Purpose Reading Scripture
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
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Day Greatness Life Opportunity Surround Time
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
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God Life Understand Yourself
If you are facing trouble right now, don’t ask, “Why me?” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing what’s right.
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Face Learning Right Trouble Yourself
The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
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Act Feeling Thinking Way Yourself
I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
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Apology High Myself Power Service
Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.
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Development Life Opportunity Problem Respond Yourself
The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.
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Conversation Greatness Prayer Run Word Yourself
God doesn’t intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.
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Each Other God Life Pain Stress
In God’s garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit…
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Fruit Garden God Grace Tree
Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren’t.
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Activity Fake Mask Pretend Yourself
People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character
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Character God Impression Interest People
The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
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Happiness Learning People Service
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.
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Experience Help Pain Wasted Time Yourself
People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
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Message Ourselves People Prayer Refusal Rejection
In pain, I’d rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.
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Answer God Pain Walk
God’s ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
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Earth God Life Spiritual Ultimate Yourself
Don’t’ call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
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Call Education Failure Ourselves
You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
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God Hard Time Religious Yourself
Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.
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Himself Life Purpose Yourself
What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.
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Day Face God Grace Hope Strength Yourself
It is never too late to start growing.
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Growth Knowledge Start Wisdom
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
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Gift Greatness Time Yourself
I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.
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Believe Change Forever Invitation Yourself
Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you – to pray more, trust more, expect more.
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Expectation Impossible Motivational Scare Situation Trust Yourself
Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable.
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Change Control Misery Past Wasted Time Worry
Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.
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Experience God Lonely Problem Rejection Yourself

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