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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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