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(Un)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things
(Un)Qualified: How God Uses Broken People to Do Big Things | Steven Furtick
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Who You Think You Are is Not as Important as Who God Says You Are Many of us wrestle with the gap between our weaknesses and our dreams, between who we are and who God says we are meant to be. We feel unqualified to do God s work or to live out the calling we imagine. But God has a way of using our weaknesses for good. In fact, God loves unqualified people. In"(Un)Qualified, "Pastor Steven Furtick helps you peel back the assumptions you ve made about yourself and see yourself as God sees you. Because true peace and confidence come not from worldly perfection but from acceptance: God s acceptance of you, your acceptance of yourself, and your acceptance of God s process of change. This is a book about understanding your identity in light of who God is. It s a book about coming to terms with the good, the bad, and the unmentionable in your life and learning to let God use you. It s about charging into the gap between your present and your hopes and meeting God there. After all, God can t bless who you pretend to be. But he longs to bless who you really are; a flawed and broken person. Good thing for us that God is in the business of using broken people to do big things. Being Unqualified Is God s Favorite Qualification Our culture tells us that the answer to our failures is to fix them. The solution to our weaknesses is to hide them. The secret to our success is to appear as flawless as possible. But God s qualifying system is different than the world s. So is his view of our weaknesses, our purpose, and our true selves. In"(Un)Qualified, "Steven Furtick explores who God is as the great I AM, and then helps us discover our own identity. Delving into the story of Jacob, Furtick invites us to acknowledge our weaknesses and ask God to work through them. The truth is, God has created us to be more, to accomplish more, and to love life more than we ever thought possible. But to become who he has called us to be, we must embrace who we are right now."(Un)Qualified"equips us to face obstacles and failures without losing a sense of purpose. We can have a thriving sense of hope that God is working in us and through us, not in spite of our weaknesses but often as a direct result of them."
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sarahgreatlove
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Mehso-so

This was… fine? Some good stories from his life. Not the most compelling Christian book I‘ve ever read by a long shot. But I finished it, and I don‘t finish books I don‘t like.

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maximoffs
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Love Furtick always and the message was strong and amazing in this one!

brendanmleonard Sounds very powerful- I'll have to check it out! 8y
maximoffs @brendanmleonard my favorite ever by him is sun stand still. Seriously life changing stuff. 8y
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God is not in love with future you. He's in love with the true you, even the most frustrating parts.

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We can't reduce Christianity to a self-help program. Jesus didn't bleed and die on the cross so we could perfect ourselves. A world around us is in desperate need of the love and grace of God. People are hungry for what we have, but we're too discouraged by our first world sins to notice. We think we have to be perfect to be effective.

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That moment when you accidentally pull all the laundry on you.

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Sometimes you want to read at the park before the 8pm service. But then you run into a million and one creeps on the way (Someone honked at me and expected me to just mosey on over to their car and another guy followed me and recorded a video of me on his Kindle until I noticed???) and you decide reading at church is safer 👌🏼💒

LiteraryinPA Yikes. Stay safe! 8y
maximoffs @LiteraryinLititz I have an app that shows my roommates where I am and tells all my ICE's if I activate an alarm. It just felt like a bad sign. 8y
BookishFeminist 😒 People are the worst. Sorry you had to deal with this. Never okay. Glad you have an app that does this! What's it called? I use a website called Kitestring that sends an automated text to my emergency contact if I am walking somewhere & don't respond to its check in prompt for the time I set it. 8y
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LauraBeth Be careful! Keep using that app. My hubby and I use the apple app friend finder so it's easy for him to track me if I'm at the park running (we had a perv in our neighborhood recently who was approaching women and flashing them but he just got caught). Read at church and stay safe 😀 8y
NatalieR Stay safe! I also want to know what app you have. 👀 8y
Sue Ew, that sucks. Why do people think that it ok? Be safe 😔 8y
Megabooks Disgusting! Take care of yourself. This is why we #needfeminism ! 8y
maximoffs @BookishFeminist the only thing I didn't like about Kitestring is that it's web based. It's called bSafe it's super awesome! 8y
maximoffs @LauraBeth oh man that sounds scary!! Glad you avoided it ❤️ 8y
maximoffs @NatalieR it's called bSafe! It's so awesome! 8y
maximoffs @sue people are gross 8y
BookishFeminist @steverogers I agree! It's not my favorite either but it gets the job done. Thanks for the app! 😊 8y
maximoffs @BookishFeminist @natalier You should check out bSafe! A great safety app that really works. Install it and let's help each other stay safer http://getbsafe.com/u/?vs 8y
BookishFeminist @LauraBeth That's disgusting & scary! Ugh. I am glad he was caught. I was assaulted in my local library a few weeks ago so this nonsense can really happen anywhere. 😒 I am so done with humans sometimes. I am glad you & others on here are staying safe! 8y
BookishFeminist @steverogers Done! Thank you SO MUCH. 8y
maximoffs @BookishFeminist no problem! And if you have a hard time finding people as a contact I'll give you my number and I'll be one for you 8y
BookishFeminist @steverogers I should have it covered but thank you for the offer. You rock! Ditto here for you or anyone else who needs it. Solidarity is the only way to help this stuff. 👊🏼 8y
NatalieR Thanks for sharing! 8y
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Our weaknesses don't disqualify us. They actually qualify us even more, because they are the portals through which God's power permeates our lives.

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Truth bombs.

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Hahahahah..okay???

Gezemice Donkey: like a cake? Cakes have layers! Shrek: NO! Ogres are not like cakes!Ogres are like onions!!!! 8y
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Love this.

ElizabethAndino Ummm...tears!!! 8y
QuoteQueen Love that! 8y
maximoffs @ElizabethAndino right? So poignant. @VeteransWife512 I loooove Steven Furtick because he drops truth bombs like this. 8y
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Books are here!

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