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The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
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Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
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Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
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What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
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The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
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When the heart no longer feels the truth of hell, the gospel passes from good news to simply news
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Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.
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