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Beth Moore, Believing God: Experiencing a Fresh Explosion of Faith

"Very few of us took our first leaps of faith without hearing God say with our spiritual ears, 'Get thee out of thy comfort zone.'... if we were already where we are going, for all practical earthly purposes, we'd be dead. We can rest assured what God has for us even in our earthly future is not identical to our present" (86).

"Based on Christ's example, God our Father calls us to make contributions of quality, not just quantity. Time is often where He tempers and tests us so that premature births of ministries don't result in lifelong handicaps.... We alone waste [time] when our impatience to receive our earthly inheritance hinders our preparation to know what to do with it."

"... ask Him to clarify... God does not begrudge our attempts to make sure we're on the right track" (87).