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Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on Earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, old age, and, inevitably, by death.

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Most people fail to realize that money is both a test and trust from God.

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Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

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When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.

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God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

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Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.

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Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem.

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Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.

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God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

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People are always more encouraged when we share how God's grace helped us in weakness than when we brag about our strengths.

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The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

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What is the glory of God? It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His importance; the radiance of His splendor; the demonstration of His power; the atmosphere of His presence.

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Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.

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Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when your out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone.

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Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.

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Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God's permission.

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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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Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.

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The things you're most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others

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Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

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Paul says that as Christians we can rejoice even in tough times because we have hope and because we know that God is working in our lives.

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Because God is love, the most important lesson he wants you to learn on earth is how to love.

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God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

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Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

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Patience is a form of faith. It says, "I trust God. I believe that God is bigger than this problem."

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