Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

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If you'll quit moaning and crying, I'll use the things to make you into someone I can use in the lives of others to show them that no matter where they've been, no matter how deep the hole, no matter how painful the trial, there's hope. There is victory.

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The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.

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The problem is that so often we forget that we are in warfare and that Satan's target is our mind.

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God is in control and therefore in everything I can give thanks.

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I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.

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When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

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Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.

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Ultimately, the goal of personal Bible study is a transformed life and a deep and abiding relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

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