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Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.

Rick Warren

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
We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.
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Blessing Healing Heaven Help Wait
Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
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Act Greatness Service Small
It is never too late to start growing.
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Growth Knowledge Start Wisdom
For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can’t hold any back.
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Broken Heart God Pieces Yourself
If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.
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Irritate People Service Try Yourself
The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
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God Stop Worry Yourself
Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
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Distance Journey Travel 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
Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.
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Choice Different God Insult Race
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
Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.
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Devil Himself Limitation Prayer
A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.
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Acceptance Life Lying Majority Philosophy Right Truth
If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you’d have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.
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Argument Complain Mindset Peace Prayer Yourself
You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.
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God Time Yourself
The purpose of influence is to “speak up for those who have no influence.” It’s not about you.
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Influence Talk Yourself
Life minus love equals zero.
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Equality Life Love One Liner
Living by faith isn’t living with certainty. It’s trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.
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Doubt Faith God Live Question Trust
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you, too.
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Butterfly Change Diamond Gemstone God Himself Pressure Time Work
Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.
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Establishment Forever God Help Relationship
Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.
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Character Habit Ourselves Remember
Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.
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Crowd Follow Lost
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
Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.
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Failure Practice Reading Research Yourself
While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.
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Experience Learning People Wisdom
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
Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.
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Delay God Himself Planning Trust

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