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What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.


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



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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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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.



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



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