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  • The cave (of failure) is where God does some of his best work in molding and shaping human lives.
  • God wants His power to flow through your weakness.
  • As long as my sense of being valuable and significant is tied to my success, it will be a fragile thing. But when I come to know in the marrow of my bones that I am just as valued and loved by God when I have fallen flat on my face, then I am gripped by a love stronger than my success or failure.
  • "If I'm walking closely with God, if I have the sense of God being with me, I find that problems lose their ability to damage my spirit."
  • Taking action is very powerful. The reason many people become paralyzed in discouragement is because they fail to devote the time or energy to understand what was involved in the failure in the first place, and then they fail to take action toward change. They wait for some outside force or person to rescue them when God is calling them to action.
  • In any arena where you are concerned about failure, the single most destructive thing you can do is nothing.
  • The good news is that God has made us in such a way that taking one single step of action can be extremely powerful in robbing failure of its power.
  • "If you don't run, you can't win." Failure is refusing to run the race at all.
  • Trying and failing, learning from failure, and trying again work a lot better than waiting for perfection.
  • The cave is where we can learn from failure and follow God's plans.
  • In the cave, David discovered that, more than he wanted to be king, he wanted to belong to God... David had a better dream--to please God.
  • Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.
  • The cave is where God resurrects dead things.
may 13 2010 ∞
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