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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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Rockford
Illinois
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God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.
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