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Let your failures refine you, not define you.

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
Author
Theologian
Writer
San Angelo
Texas
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We’re grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days?
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God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.
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Jesus came to save us, not just from politics, enemies, challenges, or difficulties.
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Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.
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No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters.
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All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.
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What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.
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Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.
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What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.
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It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering]. There's no solution for this. Despair is when you think that your suffering has no purpose, and your suffering has no end.
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Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.
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In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship
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Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?
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I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.
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Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.
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Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.
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Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.
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I choose faithfulness...Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word. My wife will not question my love. And my children will never fear that they father will not come home.
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If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.
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My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.
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