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WISDOM NOTES |
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Are you expecting the unexpected and preparing for the unforeseen? |
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Do you possess the necessary mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual tools to successfully and effectively weather seasons of turmoil? |
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Always remember: the Kingdom of God is never in crisis. |
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God knows what to do—He cares for you. |
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God has never failed His people. |
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Are you sure that you are one of His people? |
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What crisis are you facing today? |
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Are you facing your crisis alone or with God? |
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You cannot control the crisis that has come upon you suddenly, but you can take control of some of the details. |
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Get a grip on how to overcome your circumstances. |
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Regain your emotional footing to overcome a crisis. |
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Put your feet on the Rock-solid foundation of God. |
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Evils travel together because all of them originate in the sinful hearts of human beings. |
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Do not let your financial uncertainty make you do something rash and foolish. |
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Do not do something dishonest. |
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Do not go the way of the world. |
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Do not worry about yourself. |
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Put your trust in God and ask Him what to do. |
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The seeming defeat inherent in every crisis holds the keys to an unanticipated victory. |
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Believe that your crisis becomes your best opportunity. |
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Remember, you are not under the world’s system. |
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Instead of worrying, rejoice. |
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Do not throw away your confidence. |
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God, who began a good work in you, will finish it. |
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God created people in His own image to manage the earth. |
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When you follow the Master Plan, you will flourish. |
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When you mismanage, you lose. |
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The principle is honesty. |
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Proper management is the correct use of something. |
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Proper management is timely use of another person’s property. |
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Figure out what your resources are, and then use them wisely. |
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The resources we need come to us in the natural course of living our lives according to God’s design and intention. |
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Kingdom of God benefits come to us as we seek the Kingdom. |
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The provisions and resources that we need are by-products of our faith. |
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Kingdom-dwellers have faith. |
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True Kingdom people treat their faith as a relationship with an invisible King. |
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Your King has made blessings accessible to all who have eyes to see and ears to hear. |
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God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (see Heb. 13:8). |
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God is in charge of all changes. |
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It does not matter what is happening because it will not last. |
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There will be an end to every crisis. |
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Everything is seasonal, times of plenty and times of poverty. |
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Are you open to change? |
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God does not make mistakes. |
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Do not be surprised when God’s answer is in the form of harvest-producing seed. |
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Out of the midst of the fire, God purifies you. |
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Find God’s seed for you. Plant it. Nurture it to maturity. |
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Your seed will multiply greatly. |
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Your job is what you were trained to do. Your work is different. |
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Your work is what you were born to do. |
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No kind of educational system can teach you your true work because it is your life purpose |
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Your work [life purpose/God-given assingment] is revealed by your God-given gifts. |
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You are much more than your job. |
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If you can find yourself, you will gain a new perspective on what you were created to do on this earth. |
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The King created you, and the King called you. |
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You were created to contribute to the great bringing-in of the Kingdom of God. |
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He gave you special gifts that match with His purpose for your life. |
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He wants you to discover that purpose so that you can fulfill it. |
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No employer on earth can take away your work. |
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Fulfilling your God-given purpose can happen wherever you go. |
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God likes to move people around. He makes sure that He has representatives in many places |
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Your work is ongoing throughout your life on this planet. |
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Your job is only your career. It is temporary. You can lose it. |
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Your whole career can collapse. You can also have more than one career in your lifetime. |
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Your work is your life assignment. You cannot lose that. |
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You were created to serve the world around you with Kingdom compassion and Kingdom energy. |
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If people are always asking you for help, you must be reflecting the character of your King. |
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If you shoulder your share of the work without murmuring or complaining, then you have probably already been deployed in the service of the King. |
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God’s Kingdom designates every single citizen as a king in his or her own right. |
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You work your way up the Kingdom management ladder by working your way down in lowly service. |
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You are a king who serves the world with your God-given gifts |
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“What is the key to life?” |
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Is love the key? |
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Is life just an accident? |
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Is your existence a kind of “living death”? |
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Finding your true purpose and living it is the key to life. |
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The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but life without purpose. |
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Do you long for a focused, purposeful, organized life and simplified lifestyle? |
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Do you have a problem putting first things first? |
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Are you drifting through life with no focus or sense of purpose or direction? |
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Do you shoot off in too many directions trying to do too many things? |
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Are you focused on the wrong thing? |
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What can you do today to better prioritize your life? |
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If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. |
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Life is daily and constantly demanding of our time, energy, talent, attention, and focus. |
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You must know what your priorities are. |
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The absence of priority is dangerous and detrimental. |
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If you’re not doing the right thing at the right time, you are doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. |
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Prioritizing sharpens your vision so you can focus on the most important things. |
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The key to maintaining right standing is obedience. |
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Your pursuit of righteousness places you in the right positioning to receive all the rights, resources, blessings, and privileges of the Kingdom. |
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It’s very simple: you obey, God opens; you disobey, He closes. |
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Sin interrupts your communication with God and shuts down the flow of His resources to you. |
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If your mind is pure, you will see God in everything and in everyone. |
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Righteousness bears abundant fruit in your life. |
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Generosity is a character trait of the righteous. |
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God never forsakes the righteous or their children—He always provides for them. |
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Righteous living will bear the fruit in your life of an inheritance you can leave to your descendents. |
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The only true material wealth of any lasting value, particularly as an inheritance to pass on, is real estate. |
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Not only will the righteous inherit land to dwell in forever, but that land will be covered with peace and security. |
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The world is ruled by dead men. |
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Our planet spins under the power of ideas. |
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The big idea is the ideology that served as the foundation of the first and original government instituted on Earth. |
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The big idea is the divine aspiration, celestial vision, and eternal purpose of the Creator for His creation and humanity on planet Earth. |
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The big idea is the concept of the ultimate governing program for mankind on Earth that provides for all the fundamental needs of humanity and produces a culture that integrates all the noble aspirations of all mankind, such as equality, justice, peace, love, unity, and respect for human dignity, human value, and personal and corporate empowerment. |
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Death can never kill an idea. |
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Ideas are more powerful than death. |
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Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed. |
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Everything began as an idea and is the result of the conception of an idea. |
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The most difficult thing to fight against is an idea! |
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Ideas can be transferred and live on for generations. |
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God is the Master Gardener who ensures that the gardens of our lives produce good fruit. |
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Whoever tends your garden determines your culture, values, beliefs, and behavior. |
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Has the devil taken up residence in you? |
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You were created to be filled with the Spirit of God and live in perfect harmony and fellowship with Him. |
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You have a choice as to who you allow to tend your garden. |
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Are you a holy sissy? |
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Are you afraid of the devil? |
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Temptation is a fact of life. |
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Satan tempts with the intent to destroy. |
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If you occupy and stand firm during temptations, a rich reward lies in store for you. |
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Your King will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear. |
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Whatever temptations you do face, you can bear, as long as you do so in His strength rather than your own. |
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a religion and has nothing at all to do with religion. |
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The Kingdom of Heaven is the sovereign rulership of the King (God) over a territory (Earth). |
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a real, literal country, although invisible to physical eyes because it is spiritual in nature. |
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The most powerful expression of any nation is its culture. A strong and rich culture can wield an influence far beyond its geographical boundaries. |
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Are you spreading the culture of the Kingdom of Heaven? |
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There are two kinds of influence: the influence of the moment and lasting influence. |
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Kingdom influence operates gradually, based on eternal, unchanging principles of God and according to a timetable that encompasses millennia. |
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The influence of God’s Kingdom is irresistible. |
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Christ is the King of an eternal, all-powerful, all-knowing, present-everywhere Kingdom. |
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Yeast is one of the most powerful influencing agents in the world. |
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Are you influencing others for the Kingdom of God? |
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Rebellion against God is called sin. |
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Sin is the singular act of rebellion, while sins are the manifestations of that one act. |
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Adam and Eve could have freely chosen to obey God rather than disobey Him. |
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Jesus Christ came to Earth to put an end to our sin of rebellion through His blood. |
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Christ came as a “second Adam” to reverse the consequences of the first Adam’s failure. |
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Christ came to announce the return of the Kingdom of Heaven and to give us access through the sin-cleansing power of His blood. |
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Everything Jesus said and did—His prayers, teachings, healings, and miracles—was focused on a kingdom, not a religion. |
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Have you had to come to grips with your own personal defects to understand Jesus and His message? |
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The original intent of God’s mandate to Moses was not to establish a religion, but a nation of people who would love, serve, and honor God. |
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Do you understand Jesus? |
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Have you reduced His message to nothing more than an escapist plan for getting to Heaven and His promises as a mere fire insurance policy for escaping the pains of a tormenting hell? |
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Religion is one of the greatest obstacles to the Kingdom. |
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Few pastors have any formal instruction at all in any Kingdom concept. |
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Humankind’s greatest challenge has been to learn how to live in peace. |
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The need for government and order is inherent in the human spirit and is a manifestation of a divine mandate. |
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Man was created to be a governor and ruler. |
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It is in man’s nature to seek some authority mechanism that brings order to his private and social world. |
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Democracy is the best form of civil government as we know it. |
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Democracy is built on the premise and principle of “majority rule” and the protection of individual rights. |
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From the Creator’s perspective, life is politics, and He is the essence of life. |
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In Him there is no distinction between government and spirituality. |
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We all are political and religious. |
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Democracy can succeed only where there is a clear accountability to a moral code. |
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The big picture means to see the end from the beginning throughout the creative process. |
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A good artist already sees the end result in his mind. |
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Purpose defines the big picture. |
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What was God’s purpose as the Artist who created humanity? |
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Without purpose, human life has no meaning or significance. |
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Can you see the big picture? |
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Your life has the potential to fulfill your purpose. |
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If you imprison that potential, you rob your life of its purposeand fulfillment. |
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You possess an awesome treasure. |
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Your valuable deposit of potential was given to enrich the lives of others. |
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You have the ability to change your attitude and your internal environment until they are conducive to the germination of your potential seed. |
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You owe it to the next generation to live courageously so the treasure of your potential is unleashed. |
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Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential. |
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Don’t allow the grave to rob this world of your latent, awesome potential. |
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Deep within you lies a seed of greatness waiting to be germinated. |
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You have been endued with natural talents, gifts, desires, and dreams. |
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Hidden within everything is the potential to fulfill itself and produce much more than you see. |
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You have the ability to accomplish everything your God-given purpose demands. |
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The releasing of your potential is not up to God but you. |
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Abortion is the ignorance of responsibility and the denial of obligation. |
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Abortion is self-comfort at the expense of fruitfulness. |
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The abortion of potential is the death of the future. |
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Abortion is the ignorance and the lack of understanding of the principle of potential that pervades our world. |
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All creation was affected by man’s sin. |
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What are your thoughts about abortion? |
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Most of the potential God gave you at birth still remains within you, unseen and unused. |
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On any given day, you are not all you can be. |
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God can always do more than He has already done. |
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Everything came forth when God spoke it into a material substance, in accordance with His master plan. |
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What steps can you take to begin realizing your potential? |
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Can you see yourself in God’s master plan? |
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Jesus promised that He would return to redeem your body. |
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God intended your body to live forever. |
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God’s making you a new home. |
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God’s in the business of giving you a new body. |
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Don’t worry if your body isn’t all you’d like it to be. |
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You are much more than your imperfect, deteriorating body. |
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Fear and anxiety shadow our lives. |
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God is well acquainted with the insanity of your world. |
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God offers Himself as the solution to your problems. |
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God will not force you to accept the new environment He offers. |
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God waits for you to come to your senses and admit your sin and your need of His forgiveness. |
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Are you immersing yourself in God’s commandments? |
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Marriage is a companionship covenant. |
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Procreation is a function of marriage, but it is not the main focus. |
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The social and moral requirement of being married before having children is still very strong in many, many places. |
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Most people are still sensitive to the respectability of marriage. |
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Married couples who take their responsibilities seriously are careful not to conceive and give birth to more children than they can adequately love and care for. |
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True family planning is mature, responsible stewardship. |
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Marriage is the beautiful accommodation of another lifetime. |
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Building a strong marriage takes time, patience, and hard work. |
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Difference of viewpoint is one of the biggest sources of stress and conflict in young marriages. |
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Adjusting to these differences is critical to marital survival. |
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No one enters marriage “clean.” |
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Fusion creates oneness. |
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A husband and wife should know each other better than they know anyone else in the world. |
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A husband and wife should know everything about each other, even those undesirable traits that they hide from everyone else. |
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Relationship does not guarantee knowledge. |
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Labels that imply closeness and intimate knowledge may in reality hinder true relationship building. |
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Marriage is a lifelong journey into intimacy, but also into friendship. |
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As your relationship develops, you should grow into true friends and love and accept each other. |
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Have you fully utilized your abilities, talents, and gifts? |
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Have you settled for the norm? |
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Have you done your best? |
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Have you allowed others to place limitations on your potential? |
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Have you created self-imposed limitations? |
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You determine the degree to which your destiny is accomplished. |
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Have you resigned yourself to a normal life? |
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Your Creator never intended you to be normal. |
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God created you as an original. |
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Are you so preoccupied with trying to fit in that you neverstand out? |
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You were designed to be distinctive, special, irreplaceable, and unique. |
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Be satisfied with nothing less than your best. |
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Great minds and souls never settle for great work. |
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All individuals throughout history who have left their footprints in the sands of destiny were driven by a passion greater than the desire for personal comfort. |
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Retirement is a great myth that traps untapped potential. |
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Retirement is never a concept in the minds of world changers. |
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The enemy of better is best, and the tomb of the extra-ordinary is the ordinary. |
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Your responsibility is to maximize life to its fullest potential |
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All the great things God has put inside you—your visions, dreams, plans, and talents—are satan’s targets. |
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He is afraid of people like you who have faith in God’s wisdom and power. |
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The deceiver fears the treasure you possess. |
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Only as you are “strong in the Lord and in His mighty power” (Eph. 6:10) can you withstand satan’s onslaught against you. |
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The Holy Spirit, sent by Jesus when you received Him as Savior, is your Helper. |
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Understand the provisions of God’s plan and put them into practice to defend your potential. |
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Commit yourself to the goal of dying empty. |
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Discover what you were born to be, then do it. |
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Fulfill your own personal purpose for the glory of God. |
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Don’t rob the next generation of your contribution to the destiny of mankind. |
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Time is God’s gift for accomplishing your purpose and fulfilling your potential. |
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Will you waste or use wisely the days God has assigned to your life? |
