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We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.
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God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God.
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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.
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Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."
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The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It's about God who wants to give to you.
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The enemy just hates our prayers.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
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I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
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We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
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We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
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We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.
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The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
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I am just an earthly sinful father & I love my kids so much it hurts. How could I not trust a heavenly, perfect Father who loves me infinitely more than I will ever love my kids?
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I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.
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But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything
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I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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What are you doing right now that requires faith?
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