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Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

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Francine Rivers
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Author
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the United States of America
Francine Sandra Rivers
Students
Please
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Pressing
Everyone
Forgot
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Student
Wanted
Servant
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I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.
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We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.
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I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.
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I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.
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Anything less than your best dishonors God
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Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.
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As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.
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Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance
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Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
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Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.
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God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.
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Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.
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Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.
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I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free You are free. You just don't know it yet
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