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• God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

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  Mother, Jesus, Father

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• I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.

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  Life Lesson, Suffering, Depth

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• Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

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  Knowing, Secret, Atheism

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• Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

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  Age, Christ, Defeated

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• God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

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  Grace, Drink, Easier

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• Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

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  Pride, Form, Boast

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• The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

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  Prayer, Giving Up, Order

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.77, B&H Publishing Group

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• Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

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  Hands, Design, Holiness

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• God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

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  Three, May

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• The Gospel is not how people get to heaven.
  The Gospel is how people get to God.

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  People, Heaven

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• Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

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  Grace, Enabling, Sin

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• Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

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  Christian, Easter, Pain

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• We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.

  John Piper

  Thinking, Joy, Needs

  John Piper @JohnPiper, twitter.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

  John Piper

  Giving, Christ

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• The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

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  Heart, Longing, Glory

  John Piper (2016). “A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness”, p.150, SPCK

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• Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.

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  Brain, Devoted

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• We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.

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  Joy, Done, Idolatry

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• The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

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  Our Generation, Leisure Activities, Heaven

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• There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

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  Christian, Missionary, Three

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad! DVD Study Guide”, p.8, Baker Academic

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• Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.

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  Lying, Fall, Broken

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• Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

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  Promise, Devil, Favors

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• The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

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  Believe, Delay, Detours

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.170, Multnomah

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• Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

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  Prayer, Causes, Praying

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• Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Bed

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• Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

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  Life Is Too Short, Waste, Painful

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