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The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.

Francis Chan

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
We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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God Need Ourselves People Reputation
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
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
Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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Blessing Grace Punishment Yourself
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
Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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God Himself Try
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
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
I don’t have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
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Expectation Myself Planning Success Worry
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
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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Activity Care Faith God Hero Religious
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
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
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Allow God Hard Joy Life Peace World Yourself
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
Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Call Expectation Follow God Himself People Radical

The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.

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