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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.

Francis Chan

Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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Leaving Similar True
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
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Desire Fight God Order Simplicity Yourself
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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Answer Love Myself Prayer
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
A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
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Addiction God Relationship Simplicity Team
Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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God Himself Try
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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Call Comfortable God Himself Trust
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
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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Action Crazy Faith Religious
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
We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
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Creation Fake God
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
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

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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