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Gods plan isn’t a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.

Rick Warren

In deep pain, people don’t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.
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Deep Logic Pain People Yourself
People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character
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Character God Impression Interest People
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
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Deep Despair Discover Journey Life Moments Transformation Valley
Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
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Act Greatness Service Small
When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.
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Faith Feeling God Live Teaching Yourself
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
Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is best for your life. You expect him to keep his promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.
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Best Faith God Impossible Life Necessary Trust Yourself
The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.
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Deep Distance Himself Level
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
Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.
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Consequence Earth Eyes Forever Measurement Time
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD
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Difficult Happiness Moments Thankful
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
God doesn’t owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I’ve found is that explanations don’t comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.
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Comfortable Explanation God Ourselves Present
If Jesus is king in heaven then the Kingdom of God is in heaven. If Jesus is king, reign on earth then the Kingdom of Heaven is on earth. If Jesus is king in my heart, then the Kingdom of God is in me.
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Earth Heart Heaven King Myself
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
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Best Expression Life Love Philosophy Time
Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.
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God Light Myself Need Warning Worry

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