Do you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
FRANCIS CHANGrace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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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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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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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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We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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God never breaks His promises.
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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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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ’s name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
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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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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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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
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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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