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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.

Francis Chan

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 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
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God
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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Call Devotion Follow Person Thinking Weird
Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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Comfortable Experience Live Ourselves
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
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
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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Action Crazy Faith Religious
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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Education Focus Follow Love People Student Teaching
The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
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Difficult Joy Life Season Teaching True
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
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Identity Lost Ourselves Scripture World
Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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Commitment God Ourselves Religious
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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God Heaven Message Yourself
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
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
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Complete God Himself Leadership Understand Worship
Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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God Himself Love Yourself

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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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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