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• The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.

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  Life Is, Moments, Irreplaceable

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• The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

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  Jesus, Mean, Choices

  John Ortberg, Stephen Sorenson, Amanda Sorenson (2003). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat: A 6-session Journey on Learning to Trust God”, p.32, Zondervan

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• Prayer allows us to wait without worry.

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  Prayer, Worry, Waiting

  John Ortberg, Stephen Sorenson, Amanda Sorenson (2003). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat: A 6-session Journey on Learning to Trust God”, p.195, Zondervan

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• For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

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  Soul, Needs, Wells

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• To become truly free, you must surrender.

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  Surrender

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• Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

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  Waiting, Want, Becoming

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• We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Race

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• You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

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  Only Love, Knows, Known

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• Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

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  Grace, Irrational, Offers

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• Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Self

  John Ortberg (2008). “When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box”, p.149, Zondervan

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• The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

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  Jesus, Past, Climbing

  John Ortberg (2008). “When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box”, p.44, Zondervan

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• Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

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  Godly, People, Obeying God

  John Ortberg (2001). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat”, p.124, Harper Collins

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• The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.

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  Essence, Transformation, Possibility

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.23, Zondervan

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• In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

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  Spiritual, Reality, Littles

  John Ortberg (2010). “God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God”, p.105, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

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  Doe, Mass, Masterpiece

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.48, Harper Collins

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• Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

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  Trying, Want, Willpower

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

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  Joy, Everyday, Contentment

  John Ortberg (2014). “Soul Keeping Study Guide: Caring for the Most Important Part of You”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• How hard is it for God to get your attention? Do you regularly practice turning aside in your day? That is, taking a moment to listen to God- because God, through the Holy Spirit, really is speaking, because we know, every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit.

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  Practice, Space, Doe

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• The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.134, Harper Collins

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• Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

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  People, Way, Reason

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.55, Harper Collins

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• Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

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  Sloth, Pilots, Needs

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.100, Harper Collins

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• It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

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  Pain, Reality, Comfort

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• The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

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  Devotion To God, Devotion, Devotional

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

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  Goal, Scripture

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.184, Harper Collins

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