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.
FRANCIS CHANDo you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
More Francis Chan Quotes
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I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
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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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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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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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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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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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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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Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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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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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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We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
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God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.
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