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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.

Rick Warren

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
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 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
You’ll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.
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God Himself Stop Success Try Yourself
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 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
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
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
One day it’s all going to be clear. It’s all going to make sense. You’re going to be able to say, “So that’s why God allowed that in my life!” Until then, God wants you to trust him.
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Allow God Himself Life Mystery Trust Yourself
Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.
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Character Habit Ourselves Remember
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
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
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
You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
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Focus Fulfill Life Planning Purpose
Because every day of your life was written on God’s calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.
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Born Day Life Significance Spiritual
Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
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Bridge Humility People Pride
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
God specializes in giving people a fresh start.
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Fresh God People Start Yourself
If your activities don’t match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
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Activity Life Priority Wasted Time Yourself
The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.
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Deep Faith God Happiness Himself Loud Praise Time Trust
Prayer is the greatest use of my words.
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Greatness Myself Prayer Word
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
Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.
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Best Live Surrender Way Work
Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.
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Choice Commitment Life 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
You don’t bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
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Ability Glory Happiness Hide Yourself
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.
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Compassionate Humility Thinking Yourself

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