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Anything under God's control is never out of control.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Charles R. Swindoll God Hope Inspirational Jesus Relationship

Attitude is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, money, circumstances, than failures and success, than what other people think, say, or do. It is more important than appearance, ability, or skill. It will make or break a business, a home, a friendship, an organization. The remarkable thing is I have a choice every day of what my attitude will be. I cannot change my past. I cannot change the actions of others. I cannot change the inevitable. The only thing I can change is attitude. Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it.

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Charles R. Swindoll Attitude Choices Inspirational

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

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Charles R. Swindoll Faith God Trusting God

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity Comparison Discipleship God Leadership Witnessing

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

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Charles R. Swindoll God Grace

When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity Comparison God Gods Will

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity God Gods Will Holy Spirit Life

Fortunately Jesus didn't leave [the disciples]-or any of us-without hope or direction. Where we fail, Jesus succeeded. The only One who as able to recognize and follow His purpose from the beginning was Jesus. He alone was able to obey consistently and please God completely. And His divine mission was to make a way for each of us to do the same.

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Charles R. Swindoll Destiny Direction God Hope Jesus Christ Purpose

It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity Faith God

God gave laws to His people to bless them, not to burden them. Every rule either elevates the quality of human life or restores one's relationship with God after a breach. He makes no extraneous demands and He is never capricious.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity God Law

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity God Gods Will

Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.

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Charles R. Swindoll Bible Christianity God Prayer Trials

The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch.

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Charles R. Swindoll Challenge Christianity Faith God Provision

God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.

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Charles R. Swindoll Faith God Providence Trust

God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, Be still and know that I am God!

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Charles R. Swindoll God Peace Quietness Satisfaction Worry

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak, you believe My word, your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

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Charles R. Swindoll Belief Believe Faith God Jesus Christ Prayer Providence Trust

To be in Christ is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be in Christ is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the cross paid the complete debt of death we owe for our sin; to trust that His resurrection gives us eternal life instead of relying upon our own ability to please God. To be in Christ is to claim, by faith, the free gift of salvation. To be in Christ is to enjoy a completely restored relationship with our Father in heaven by virtue of His Son's righteous standing.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Charles R. Swindoll Free Gift God Jesus Christ Salvation Works

Choose to view life through God's eyes.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity God

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.

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Charles R. Swindoll Faith Fear God Standing Firm

Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26)

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Charles R. Swindoll Creator Death Faith God Life Sin

Jesus never commanded believers to produce fruit. Fruit is the *purpose* of the branch, but it is not the *responsibility* of the branch. The branch cannot produce anything on it's own. However, if it remains attached to the vine, it will receive life-sustaining sap, nourishment, strength, everything it needs.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity God Jesus Christ

The matters we or the world might consider trivial, He cares about and wants to remedy. He longs to relieve our worries and has promised to supply our most fundamental needs.

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Charles R. Swindoll God Provision

In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna--a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night--to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

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Charles R. Swindoll Faith God Israelites Providence

Israel's first king, Saul, looked like he was born for the role. He was tall, handsome, intelligent, and sensitive to God's leading. But he eventually lost most of his attractive qualities, the most important being obedience.

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Charles R. Swindoll God Obedience Saul

God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity God Peace Relying On God Rest Works

Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity Fear God Worry

The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity Faith God Jesus Christ Providence

While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christian Life Creation God

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity Doubt Fear God Trust

Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again. The secondary activity of obedience to the law of God was always intended to serve the primary activity: to love God and enjoy Him forever. When that is primary, the secondary becomes a labor of love, a joyful, and easy burden to bear. (Matthew 11:28-30

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity God Jesus Christ Law

Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.

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Charles R. Swindoll Faith God

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.

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Charles R. Swindoll Faith God Providence

The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it...

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity Free Gift God Israelites

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

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Charles R. Swindoll Beleive Faith God

At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity God Sabbath

Elizabeth's barreness and advanced age--a double symbol of hopelessness--became the means by which God would announce to the world that nothing is impossible for Him.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christian God Hope Hopelessness Impossible Inspirational

The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!

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Charles R. Swindoll Hope Jesus Christ Resurrection Trials Worry

[Jesus] tilted His head back, pulled up one last time to draw breath and cried, Tetelestai! It was a Greek expression most everyone present would have understood. It was an accounting term. Archaeologists have found papyrus tax receipts with Tetelestai written across them, meaning paid in full. With Jesus' last breath on the cross, He declared the debt of sin cancelled, completely satisfied. Nothing else required. Not good deeds. Not generous donations. Not penance or confession or baptism or...or...or...nothing. The penalty for sin is death, and we were all born hopelessly in debt. He paid our debt in full by giving His life so that we might live forever.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Charles R. Swindoll Crucifixion Death Jesus Christ Sin

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

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Charles R. Swindoll Christianity Faith Suffering Trials

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Charles R. Swindoll Christianity Contentment Faith Joy Trials Trust
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