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July 7, 2017
Adversity is often a blessing in disguise.
Adversity can produce an increased capacity to serve God.
he cited numerous examples of other people who eventually became successful in the area
of their greatest weakness.
He wants to recycle your adversity and turn it into a ministry.
Most people came to me with an insurmountable problem. However, what happened was through our work together they discovered something more important than the problem and the problem lost its power and went away.
If you don’t turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain.
The more problems you have, the more potential you have to help people.
One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God.
If you don’t have any problems, you don’t hav...
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Your ability to help others heal is limited to where yo...
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My body simply compensated for its brokenness.
When you’re injured in one place, you’ve got to draw more strength from someplace else.
God breaks us where we need to be broken. He fractures the pride and lust and anger in our lives, but He does it to remodel us into His image. And once we heal, we end up stronger than we were to begin with.
Listen, I owe you a favor. Let me let you suffer.
The more problems you have, the more potential you have.
But lion chasers are more afraid of lifelong regrets than temporary uncertainty. They don’t want to get to the end of their lives and have a million what-if regrets. So they chase lions. In the short-term, it increases uncertainty. But in the long run, it reduces regrets.
We focus our energies on telling God exactly what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. In fact, we repeat ourselves over and over
again just to make sure God didn’t miss any of the important details. But what if, instead of spending all of our energy making plans for God, we spent that energy seeking God?
You can’t plan Pentecost.
What if we actually did what they did in the Bible? What if we fasted and prayed for ten days?
We fasted and prayed for ten days leading up to the Day of
Pentecost.
“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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Life is infinitely uncertain.
“infinite complexity.”
the incomprehensibility of God.
Just when we think we have God figured out, we discover a new dimension of His ka...
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Faith doesn’t reduce
uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.
faith has less to do with gaining knowledge and more to do with causing wonder.
Thank God for complications!
Sin will complicate your life in ways that it shouldn’t be complicated. One way or the other, life is complicated.
The longer I live, the more I think that spiritual maturity is less about figuring out the future and more about a moment-by-moment sensitivity to the Spirit of God.
spiritual maturity results in higher degrees of predictability.
I believe in planning. I believe in goal setting.
It comes standard.
we never outgrow the desire to know exactly where we’re headed and exactly when we’ll get there.
We’re control freaks. But faith involves a loss of control.
And faith is the willingness and readiness to embrace those uncertainties.
We hate negative uncertainties—
But we love positive uncertainties—the good things that happen that we didn’t expect.
God were manageable, we’d be miserable.
taste. I am discovering that the greatest moments in life are unscripted. They are unrehearsed and unplanned and unpredictable, and that is precisely what makes them unforgettable.
Some of the best things in life are totally unplanned and unscripted.
the greatest movies have the highest levels of uncertainty. Whether the uncertainty is romantic or dramatic, scripts with the highest level of uncertainty make the best movies. In the same vein, I think high levels of uncertainty make
the best lives.
Faith is embracing the uncertainties of life.
