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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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Bais Bend God Into Mine Mold Prayer Purpose
This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Accept Accepted Bible Different Every Gospel Page Religion Show Utterly
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Emotion Every Prayer Processed Single
…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Christian Deeply Dream Jesus Marriage Must Relationship Single Status
The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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Believe Christ Deserve God Jesus Treat
God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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