Michele Cushatt

Speaker, @Zondervan author of A Faith That Will Not Fail (2023), executive coach, wife, mom to 6.

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In a world that seems to throw faith away like a toy that no longer works, you need to know there are many of us who have weathered the worst of life, who have had every reason to walk away, and yet didn’t.

#michelecushatt #storms #faith #butGod

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“You can not lead others until you first lead yourself.” —John Maxwell

#leadership101 #christianleadership #johnmaxwell

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“Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.” —Philippians 2:14-15

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"Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get." — Dallas Willard

#spiritualformation #faithjourney

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“To be the best you can be [as a leader, spouse, parent, friend, employee], you must develop a hunger for feedback and see it as one of the best gifts that you can get.” —Dr. Henry Cloud, Boundaries For Leaders

#christianleaders #boundariesforleaders #christianleadership

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“The Emotionally Unhealthy Leader is someone who operates in a continuous state of emotional and spiritual deficit, lacking emotional maturity and a ‘being with God’ sufficient to sustain their ‘doing for God.’”

—Peter Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Leader

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“God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation—a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth.” —George MacDonald

#revelation #creation

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“The way to be changed through our sufferings is to keep going. The proof that we are being changed is that we are persevering.” —J. Gary Millar, Changed Into His Likeness: A Biblical Theology of Personal Transformation

#perseverance #faithandsuffering

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“The truth of faith has little value when it is not also the life of the heart.” —Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart For Intimate Belonging

#heartwork #faithjourney

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“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’” —1 Samuel 16:7

#heartwork

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“Humility is being precisely who you are at any given time before God and at least one other person.” —Thomas Merton

#humility

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Father, giver of this new day of life, grant me the joy to embrace this day as a gift, the discernment to know how to use it for the best possible good, the wisdom to see your presence in all things, and the strength to follow you wholly, no matter what the day brings. Amen.

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“In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: What you create and what you allow.” —Dr. Henry Cloud, Boundaries For Leaders

#leadershipwisdom

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“Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.” —John Calvin

#wisdomofGod

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Father, tonight I settle in for bed with the thought that you neither slumber nor sleep (Ps 121:4). I relinquish all the loose ends of today and the uncertainties of tomorrow, knowing that you are always at work, even while I sleep. I trust you. It is enough. Amen.

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“God, of your goodness, give me yourself;
for you are sufficient for me.
I cannot properly ask anything less, to be worthy of you.
If I were to ask less, I should always be in want.
In you alone do I have all.”
—Julian of Norwich (1342)

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“To own my unique self in a world filled with voices contrary to the gospel requires enormous fortitude.” —Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart For Intimate Belonging

#brennanmanning #uniquelymade #michelecushatt

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“My heart is confident in you, O God; my heart is confident. No wonder I can sing your praises!” —Psalm 57:7

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“The goal of following Jesus is not just to get into heaven when you die, but to get heaven into you while you live.” — John Ortberg

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We must simplify our approach to [God]. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress and come with the guileless candor of childhood.” —A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

#awtozer #childlikefaith

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“You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.” —Psalm 56:8 (NLT)

#psalm56 #faithandsuffering