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We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

Francis Chan

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Francis Chan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 31
Author
Pastor
Theologian
Hong Kong SAR
China
Prayer
Jesus
Life
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Relationship
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Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.
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As we begin to focus more on Christ, loving Him and others becomes more natural. As long as we pursuing Him, we satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment
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We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?
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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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Oswald Chambers writes, ‘Never make a principle out of your experience let God be as original with other people as He is with you.’ To that I would add, ‘Be careful not to turn others’ lives into the mold for your own.’ Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
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My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work. [Ephesians 2:10]
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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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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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
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Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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True faith means holding nothing back it bets everything on the hope of eternity
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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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Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.
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...no worship is better than apathetic worship.
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Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
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People who are obsessed are raw with God they do not attempt to mask the ugliness of their sins or their failures. Obsessed people don't put it on for God He is their safe place, where they can be at peace.
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I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.
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We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.
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