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Principles of Prayer - Part 4
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What does sacrifice mean? Is it a bad thing?
To sacrifice is to forfeit something of great value to you, but you do it for something of even greater value.
When you understand the worth of sacrifice, it changes everything.
In the Christian life, to come to Christ, you’re forfeiting your life and your will for something of much greater value - and that is God’s will - His plan for your life.
But most of us don’t like that word sacrifice. It sounds so negative. We confuse it with the idea of deprivation - like I’ve just got to deprive myself of something and there’s nothing really in it for me.
We need to understand that there’s a huge difference between deprivation and sacrifice.
As you grow in wisdom and maturity, there are often things that you realize you need to eliminate from your life just because it’s wise and good.
If you really want to know what a person’s life is really all about, what’s really important to them, all you need to do is look at two things.
What are those two things?
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