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Encouragement

I was reading through some quotes I had written down a while ago, and thought I would share them with you all so you can be encouraged as well:) 

"If prayer is birthed out of desperation, than anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing."
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss


"God is always doing 10,000 things in your life and you may be aware of three of them." - John Piper

"You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have." - Corrie Ten Boom

"We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with idolatry." - John Piper 

"The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest." - Elizabeth Elliot

"The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of christian, but the fact that I am a christian, does make me a different kind of woman." - Elizabeth Elliot 

"Worry is like a rocking chair...It keeps you busy, but gets you nowhere." - Elizabeth Elliot 

"When gratitude becomes your default setting, life changes." — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

"In every season, in every circumstance, His grace is sufficient for me." - Nancy Leigh DeMoss

What keeps us pressing in, pressing on, pressing upward, pressing into Christ, persevering in the hard times, keeping us growing? It's the promise of the second coming of Christ. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

"Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Christ to keep you out of hell."      - Charles Spurgeon 

"Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else." - Charles Spurgeon

"Be anxious for nothing. So many "suffering" from anxiety or depression could find relief in the Lord"- Charles Spurgeon

I found these to be helpful and hope you do as well:)

Until next time,
Elise 

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