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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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