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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

Timothy Keller

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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Bad Experience God Good Handle Live Our Out Powerful Prayer Taken Thing Turn
When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Attractive Cross Down Give Jesus Look Myself Think
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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Become God Happiness Happy Mean Most Tend Thing
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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Aband Agony Betray Do Down Father Greatest History Look Love Make
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Discover Look One Real Spend Think Time You
After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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After Creation Finish God Jesus Redemption Rest
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Comfort Grief Jesus Power Recognition Sacrifice Success Value World
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Adversity Important Maintain Midst More Nothing Painful Purpose
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Fail Grace More Much Need Remember Save Succeed
You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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Commit Fall Into Love Matter Say
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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Appreciate Deserve God Grace Offer People Relentlessly Save Seek
If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Desire Feel God Pray
No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Bad Good Jesus Lot One People Think
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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Christ Future Give Giving Handle Hope Now Only Resurrection Right Scar
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
The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Access Dull God History Miss Nobody Paid Resurrection Right Stamp
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
God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Back Become Believe Body Breakable Country Expert God People Someone Suffer
If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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Anything Crush Expectation Love More Object Under Weight World
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Accuse Cause Look Our Satan Savior Sin
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Bible Good Life Live Much Purpose Show
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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Both Cost Destroy Grace Grasp Infinitely Need Ridicule Righteousness Save Self Sinner Unworthy
The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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Access Child Children Glass Kind King Person Water
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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Christian Disagree God Idealize might Version Worship Yourself
The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Behavior Challenge More Racially Salvation Understand
Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Despite Faith Feel Living Out Truth
We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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Come God However Look Say Wash

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