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God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.

Francis Chan

Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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God Impossible Understand Way Yourself
When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice.
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Command Consumption Family Important Life Problem Rejoice
Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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Better Planning Trust Yourself
God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.
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God Invitation Life Ourselves
Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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Freedom Power Thinking Yourself
God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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Definition God Live Love Measurement Ourselves Straight
Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they’re not obeying the things that He called them to do.
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Earth God Himself Live Obedience People Weird
I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
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Believe Compassionate Generosity Help Love Myself
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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Answer Love Myself Prayer
God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards.
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Definition God Love Ourselves Standard
Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Call Expectation Follow God Himself People Radical
Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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God Himself Try
But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.
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Afraid Call Comfortable God Himself Situation Trouble Trust
When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
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Feeling Love Manifestation Obligation Work
Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
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Education Focus Follow Love People Student Teaching
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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Discipline Night Ourselves

God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.

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