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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
A key to everything is surrender – to really come before the Lord and say, – I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay’ or ‘God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.
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Earth God Myself Surrender
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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Call Comfortable God Himself Trust
The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
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God Himself Man Stand Wisdom Word
Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
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Consequence People Pin Save Warm
Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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Comfortable Experience Live 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
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
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
God’s presence is all that matters.
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God Matter Presence
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
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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Attention Close God Growth Ourselves Pursuit
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
We are here to love. Not much else matters.
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Important Love Value Worth
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
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
Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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Fall Religious Scripture Study Trap
Can you worship a God who isn’t obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
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Action Explanation God Himself Obligation Worship Yourself
Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.
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Commitment Display Humble Journey Love Marriage Platform Pride
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
Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
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Change God Live Relationship Yourself
We live in a time when Christians need to be told that they are supposed to live like Christ. That’s Weird.
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Live Modern Religious Time Weird
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
God never breaks His promises.
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Break God Himself Promise
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
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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Discipline Night Ourselves
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

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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