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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.

Francis Chan

God doesn’t want religious duty. He doesn’t want a distracted, half-hearted, ‘Fine, I’ll read a chapter, now are You happy?’ attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.
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Chapter Day God Himself Meditation Night Religious
Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
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Fertilizer Growth Help Togetherness
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
Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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Believe Live Wrong
We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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Action Alive Ourselves
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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Failure Fear Greatness Life Success
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
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
Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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Leaving Similar True
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
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
The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
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Glory God Himself Life
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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Action Fruit Meaning World
The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.
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God Life Loan Move Talk Thinking Word Yourself
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Desire Fight God Order Simplicity Yourself
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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God Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Treasure

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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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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