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Put Jesus Christ in the driver's seat of your life and take your hands off the steering wheel.
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Knowing your purpose prepares you for eternity.
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Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye...
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Without God's glory, there would be nothing.
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Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give out. It is not enough to keep learning more and more. We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe.
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Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction and events without reason. Without a purpose life is trivial, petty, and pointless.
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You cannot arrive at your life's purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with God, your Creator. You exist only because God wills that you exist. You were made by God and for God - and until you understand that, life will never make sense. It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
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The most common myth about money is that having more will make me more secure. It won't. Wealth can be lost instantly through a variety of uncontrollable factors. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you -- your relationship with God.
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To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.
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Authenticity is the exact opposite of what you find in some churches.
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If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest.
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This is what God wants most from you: a relationship!
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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18"
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The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.
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Knowing and loving God is our greatest privilege, and being known and loved is God's greatest pleasure.
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But God's presence in your life has nothing to do with your feelings. Your emotions are susceptible to all kinds of influences, so they are often unreliable. Sometimes the worst advice you can get is "Do what you feel." Often what we feel is neither real nor right. Your emotional state can be the result of memories, hormones, medicines, food, lack of sleep, tension, or fears. Whenever I start to feel anxious about a situation, I remind myse..
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Most men lead lives of aimless distraction.
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Prayer lets you speak to God; meditation lets God speak to you. Both are essential to becoming a friend of God.
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Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God.
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THE HEART OF WORSHIP IS SURRENDER.
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Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.
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To discover you purpose in life you must turn to God's Word, not the world's wisdom. You must build your life on eternal truths, not pop psychology, success-motivation, or inspirational stories.
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Failure is a part of everyone's journey. But it is your attitude toward failure that will determine your ultimate success.
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Living the rest of your life for the glory of God will require a change in your priorities, your schedule, your relationships, and everything else.
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This is the paradox: victory comes through surrender. Surrender doesn't weaken you; it strengthens you. Surrendered to God, you don't have to fear or surrender to anything else.
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As so many people in the Bible did, tell God exactly how you feel.
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We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.
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Bringing enjoyment to God, living for his pleasure, is the first purpose of your life. When you fully understand this truth, you will never again have a problem with feeling insignificant. It proves your worth. If you are that important to God, and he considers you valuable enough to keep with him for eternity, what greater significance could you have?
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Benefits of Being in God's Family The moment you were spiritually born into God's family, you were given some astounding birthday gifts: the family name, the family likeness, family privileges, family intimate access, and the family inheritance!7 The Bible says, "Since you are his child, everything he has belongs to you."8 The New Testament gives great emphasis to our rich "inheritance." It tells us, "My God will meet all your needs accordi..
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It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
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In contrast, the Bible says, "A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense."15 Patience comes from wisdom, and wisdom comes from hearing the perspective of others. Listening says, "I value your opinion, I care about our relationship, and you matter to me." The cliche is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care."
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La cualidad esencial para el liderazgo no es la perfeccion, sino la credibilidad.
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You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech."
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Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.
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Repetition is the mother of character and skill.
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Point to Ponder: If there were no God, and everything was a result of random chance, there would be no purpose to your life. It all starts with God.
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Without God life makes no sense.
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Love others as you love yourself.'"1 Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. That's why we're given a lifetime to learn it. Of course, God wants us to love everyone, but he is particularly concerned that we learn to love others in his family. As we have already seen, this is the second purpose for your life. Peter tells us, "Show special love for God's people."2 Paul echoes this sentime..
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POINT TO PONDER: I'm as close to God as I choose to be.
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You cannot make God stop loving you, because his love is based on who he is, not what you do. It is based on his character, not your conduct.
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This self-absorbed perspective treats God as a genie who simply exists to serve you in your selfish pursuit of personal fulfillment. But God is not your servant, and if you fall for the idea that life is supposed to be easy, either you will become severely disillusioned or you will live in denial of reality. Never forget that life is not about you! You exist for God's purposes, not vice versa. Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's..
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Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, "If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest."
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Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty, and pointless.
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Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve. It wasn't in spite of his greatness that he did these things, but because of it, and he expects us to follow his example.
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