If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

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Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

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Christ didn't die just so you could make to heaven; He lives so you can make it through earth!

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Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

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People say all the time 'I don't have a good testimony' because they think their story has to involve some dramatic story of change from 'bad' to 'good'. But Jesus didn't come to save people this way. Sin doesn't make us bad it makes us dead. Jesus came to save by bringing the dead to life. And that's an amazing testimony.

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It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate.

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It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.

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You don't have to know everything about the mountain in front of you to take the next step

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We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history - 400 years where there wasn't a prophet, 400 years where God's voice wasn't heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night.

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Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

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