Lysa TerKeurst Quotes

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A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

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Food can fill our stomachs but never our souls.
Posessions can fill our houses but never our hearts.
Sex can fill our nights but never our hunger for love.
Children can fill our days but never our identities.
Jesus wants us to know only He can fill us and truly satisfy us.

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I know deep hurt. But I also know deep hope. Sometimes God's power is shown as much in preventing things as it is in making them happen. We may never know why. But we can always know and trust the Who.

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Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.

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Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.

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Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?

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I'm an encourager at heart. I love to give words of encouragement and I love to receive words of encouragement. That's probably why words of discouragement affect me so deeply.

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The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.

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The only way our faith will ever strengthen is for us to use it. We need to apply thought and prayer to our decisions and then trust God for the outcome. We need to set our sights on growing in faith, not shrinking back for fear of failure.

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Getting healthy isn't just about losing weight. It's not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It's about recalibrating our souls so that we want to change - spiritually, physically, and mentally. And the battle really is in all three areas.

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You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.

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Even Jesus, the Savior of the world, had to take time each day to ask for his portion.

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Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves.

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My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

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Saying yes to God isn't about perfect performance, but rather perfect surrender to the Lord day by day. Your obedience becomes radical the minute this desire turns into real action. Radical obedience is hearing from God, feeling His nudges, participating in His activity, and experiencing His blessings in a way few people ever do.

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We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

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Whatever attitude we bring into a situation will be multiplied

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If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

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Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.

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Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.

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Our decisions aren't just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we're about to head. Show me a decision and I'll show you a direction.

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God has challenged me to grow in my knowledge of Him but I have to CHOOSE whether or not to display this growth through my actions.

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God, I want to see You. God, I want to hear You. God, I want to know You. God, I want to follow hard after You. And even before I know what I will face today, I say yes to You.

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One thing you can be assured of is that God has already worked out all the details of what your obedience will accomplish - and its all good. we need not fear what our obedience will cause to happen in our life. we should only fear what our disobedience will cause us to miss. the sooner this truth resonates in your heart, the quicker you can make peace with a command from God that you don't fully understand.

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Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

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Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

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This life is not about me. It's about joining hands with Jesus to fulfill whatever tasks He sets before me and to share His love with all He brings my way.

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Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.

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Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

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Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power.

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