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Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

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Francine Rivers
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Francine Sandra Rivers
Repentance
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Eternal
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Temporal
Damnation
Restoration
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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 gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.
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You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.
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Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.
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Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.
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Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
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Anything less than your best dishonors God
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And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers
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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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God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.
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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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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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The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.
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Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah
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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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Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!
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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 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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Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
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