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Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ

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God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

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A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

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The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

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The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next …

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This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in pra…

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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see…

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Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

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We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

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