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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.

Francis Chan

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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Comfortable Experience Live Ourselves
In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
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Consistent Distraction God Himself Intention Ourselves Reminder World
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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Believe Live Wrong
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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Desperate God Himself Time
The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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Follow Heart Love Religious World Yourself
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God
True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.
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Faith God Himself Hope Promise True
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
Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Call Expectation Follow God Himself People Radical
Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
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Alone Communication Himself Intimacy
God never breaks His promises.
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Break God Himself Promise
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
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
Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.
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Big Enough God Live Ourselves Quite Trust Worry
I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
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Better Fall God Life Myself Relationship Wonderful
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

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