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When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

Rick Warren

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
Many people allow their need for other people’s approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
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Control Live Need People Thinking
The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.
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Expectation God Responsibility Yourself
Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God’s face.
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Act Encouragement Face Kind Simplicity Smile Truth
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
Worship isn’t an event to attend & watch. It’s a lifestyle to be lived.
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Event Lifestyle Live See Worship
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.
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Build Character Moral Opportunity Potential Problem Spiritual
Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.
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Character Habit Ourselves Remember
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
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’s LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end.
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Beginning End God Love Ocean Yourself
Most of the time, it’s your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.
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Hold Talent Thinking Time Yourself
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
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
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
Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.
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Feeling Important Insecurity Love Yourself

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

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