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You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.
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God is always near us. Always for us. Always in us. We may forget him, but God will never forget us.
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Sunsets steal our breath. Caribbean blue stills our hearts. Newborn babies stir our tears. But take all these away--strip away the sunsets, oceans, and cooing babies--and leave us in the Sahara, and we still have reason to dance in the sand. Why? Because God is with us.
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In the days leading up to the war with Germany, the British government commissioned a series of posters. The idea was to capture encouraging slogans on paper and distribute them about the country. Capital letters in a distinct typeface were used, and a simple two-color format was selected. The only graphic was the crown of King George VI. The first poster was distributed in September of 1939: YOUR COURAGE YOUR CHEERFULNESS YOUR RESOLUTION W..
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El SENOR es bueno y hace lo correcto; les muestra el buen camino a los que andan descarriados. Guia a los humildes para que hagan lo correcto; les ensena su camino. SALMOS 25.8-9 (NTV)
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Gracias por tu constante instruccion y preocupacion por cada paso que doy en mi vida.
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Survival in Egypt begins with a yes to God's call on your life.
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But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naive. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.
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Joseph's story just parted company with the volumes of self-help books and all the secret-to-success formulas that direct the struggler to an inner power ("dig deeper"). Joseph's story points elsewhere ("look higher")."
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You will never go where God is not.
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God's unrivaled goodness undergirds everything else we can say about prayer. If he is like us, only slightly stronger, then why pray? If he grows weary, then why pray? If he has limitations, questions, and hesitations, then you might as well pray to the Wizard of Oz. However, if God is at once Father and Creator, holy--unlike us--and high above us, then we at any point are only a prayer away from help.
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Perhaps you do not understand that God is kind to you so you will change your hearts and lives" (Rom. 2:4 NCV). The"
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We choose our response--rock or sponge? Resist or receive?
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A whole new year is waiting for you. I pray that you'll pray for Jesus to grow in you, for everything you say and think and do to reflect more and more of him. For you and me, every day can be Christmas. Let's present the world with the greatest gift of all: Jesus.
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Las lagrimas son el material con el cual el paraiso entreteje su mas brillante arco iris.
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But there is no way we can move forward together if you're going to hold me hostage to the past.
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Think you have lost it all? You haven't. "God's gifts and God's call are under full warranty-- never canceled, never rescinded" (Rom. 11:29 MSG)."
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Grace is a God who stoops.
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Death is God's way of taking people away from evil. From what kind of evil? An extended disease? An addiction? A dark season of rebellion? We don't know. But we know that no person lives one day more or less than God intends. "All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old" (Ps. 139:16)."
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In God's plan every life is long enough and every death is timely. And though you and I might wish for a longer life, God knows better. And--this is important--though you and I may wish a longer life for our loved ones, they don't. Ironically, the first to accept God's decision of death is the one who dies.
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Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then enables us to yield to its transforming power. Grace matters because Jesus matters, and it works because he does.
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Moses preferred to go nowhere with God than anywhere without him.
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Cuando invitamos a Dios a nuestro mundo, el entra. Nos ofrece una multitud de regalos: gozo, paciencia, fortaleza. Las ansiedades llegan, pero no se quedan. Los temores se asoman, pero luego se van. Los pesares aterrizan en el parabrisas, pero luego viene el limpiaparabrisas de la oracion. El diablo todavia me presenta rocas de culpa, pero me volteo y se las entrego a Cristo. Estoy
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Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will.
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Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted. MATTHEW 5:4
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Esta es la promesa de la oracion! !Podemos hacer cambiar de idea a Dios! Su voluntad final es inflexible, pero la implementacion de su voluntad no lo es. El no cambia su caracter ni su proposito, pero si altera su estrategia debido a los ruegos de sus hijos. Nosotros no cambiamos su intencion, pero podemos influenciar sus acciones.
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Olvidate de la grandeza; busca la pequenez. Confia mas; presume menos. Haz muchas peticiones y acepta todos los regalos. Acercate a Dios igual que un nino se acerca a su papito.
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A los lideres religiosos les encantaba (y todavia les encanta) hacer un teatro de sus oraciones. Se situaban en lo alto de las intersecciones y practicaban la piedad publica. A Jesus le repugnaba el espectaculo. <> (Mateo 6.6, NVI).
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occupied with something else.
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El punto? A el le importa poco la elegancia y mucho la accesibilidad. Orar en el Vaticano puede ser significativo. Sin embargo, las oraciones que se elevan en casa tienen mas peso que las oraciones ofrecidas en Roma. Si quieres, viaja al Muro de las Lamentaciones, pero la oracion en la cerca de tu patio es igual de eficaz. El que escucha tus oraciones es tu Papito. No necesitas adularlo con el lugar.
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La oracion es realmente asi de sencilla. Resistete al impulso de complicarla. No te sientas orgulloso por las oraciones muy elaboradas. No pidas disculpas por las oraciones incoherentes. Nada de juegos. Sin encubrimientos. Simplemente se sincero... sincero con Dios. Subete a su regazo. Cuentale todo lo que hay en tu corazon. O no le digas nada. Solo eleva tu corazon al cielo y declara: Padre... Papito...
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He spent over three decades wading through the muck and mire of our sin yet still saw enough beauty in us to die for our mistakes.
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La manera mas rapida de extinguir el fuego de la ira es con un balde de oracion.
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Remarkable. He forgave their sin before they even committed it. He offered mercy before they even sought it.
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Nunca te pareces mas a Jesus que cuando oras por otros. Ora por la gente que amas; ora por los que no amas. Ora por este mundo que sufre. Presentale tu caso al Dador del pan.
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Mucha gente tiene pensamientos limitados sobre Dios. En un esfuerzo por verlo como nuestro amigo, hemos perdido de vista su inmensidad. En nuestro deseo de entenderlo, hemos intentado contenerlo.
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La conclusion esta clara: llevale tus problemas a Jesus. No los lleves al bar. Jim Beam no puede solucionarlos. No te desquites con otros. Los arrebatos de ira nunca pueden defender una causa. Tan pronto percibas un problema, ya sea grande o pequeno, llevalo a Cristo.
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28People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking and to do things they should not do. 29They are filled with every kind of sin, evil, selfishness, and hatred. They are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, lying, and thinking the worst about each other. They gossip 30and say evil things about each other. They hate God. They are rude and conceited an..
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Un problema por el que no has orado es como una espina enterrada. Se encona y se infecta: primero el dedo, luego la mano, despues el brazo entero. Mejor es ir directo a la persona que tiene las pinzas.
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La mayoria de nosotros puede llevarle nuestros problemas a Cristo, sin embargo, ?somos capaces de dejarlos alli? ?Permanentemente? ?Con fe? Otra vez, dejemos que Maria sea nuestro modelo. Ella le llevo su problema a Jesus y lo dejo alli. <>. Resiste el impulso de reclamar el problema una vez que lo has entregado.
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Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. JOSHUA 1:8 (NIV)
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Which leads us to a second tool you need--an open Bible.
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Through is a favorite word of Gods... [follow with] (Isa. 43.2)
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