The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
FRANCIS CHANGod 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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My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.
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If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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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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The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It’s about God who wants to give to you.
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Lukewarm people call ‘radical’ what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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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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He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a ‘Christian’ without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
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Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
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True faith manifests itself through our actions.
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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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Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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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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We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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