Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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