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The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.
Sickness helps us appreciate health. Failure helps us appreciate success. Debt helps us appreciate wealth. And the tough times help us appreciate the good times.
In the words of philosopher Walter Kaufmann:
“It makes for a better life if one has a rendezvous with death.”
It is adversity that gave Benaiah an opportunity to distinguish himself as a warrior.
Adversity is often the seedbed of opportunity.
from a biological perspective, zero gravity is hazardous to your health.
Adversity can produce an increased capacity to serve God.
He wants to recycle your adversity and turn it into a ministry.
God is in the business of recycling our pain and using it for someone else’s gain.
If you don’t turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain. But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else’s gain.
If you don’t have any problems, you don’t have any potential. Here’s why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you’ve been wounded.
two hundred and six bones in the body
it is almost as if God is saying: Listen, I owe you a favor. Let me let you suffer.
The more problems you have, the more potential you have.
It was the way Benaiah handled the adversity that led to his military promotions.
Opportunities often look like insurmountable obstacles.
We should stop asking God to get us out of difficult circumstances and start asking Him what He wants us to get out of those difficult circumstances.
Prayer is less about changing our circumstances and more about changing our perspective.
Worship is forgetting about what’s wrong with you and remembering w...
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“the circumstances you complain about become chains that imprison you. And worship is the way out.”
Name one area in your life where you could begin right away to replace complaining with worship.
back pain
it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.
Killing the lion was not a foregone conclusion.
lion chasers are counterintuitive.
security scares lion chasers more than uncertainty.
lion chasers are more afraid of lifelong regrets than temporary uncertainty.
embracing uncertainty is one dimension of faith.
you have to do something counterintuitive if you want to reach your God-given potential
and fulfill your God-give...
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what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God?
You can’t plan Pentecost. But if you
seek God for ten days in an upper room, Pentecost is bound to happen.
In 1932, a German physicist named Werner Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize for his theory of quantum mechanics.
Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principle”
We cannot know the precise position and momentum of a quantum particle at the same time.
“The imprecise measurement of initial conditions precludes the precise prediction of future outcomes.”
There will always be an element of uncertainty.
“You can’t never always somet...
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Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, found that
some shapes, like clouds and coastlines, are infinitely complex.
Any detail can be magnified to reveal even more det...
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technical term is “infinite c...
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Just when we think we have God figured out, we discover a new dimension of His ka...
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If you want to give God a good laugh, give Him a detailed description of where you’ll be and what you’ll be doing twenty-five years from now.
the decision to follow Christ is a relinquishment of control.
Following Christ is letting Jesus take the wheel.
You never know when a five-hundred-pound lion may cross your path. And faith is the willingness and readiness to embrace those uncertainties.
Faith is embracing the uncertainties of life. It is chasing the lions that cross our paths. It is recognizing a divine appointment when you see one.
Expect
