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Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

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Francis Chan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 31
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Hong Kong SAR
China
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My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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God never breaks His promises.
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When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
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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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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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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 to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.
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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.
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We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.
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True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.
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Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.
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It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
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The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff?
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Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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...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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Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
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He does not have to know us so well, but He chooses to.
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James 2:19- 'You believe there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that- and shudder.' God doesn't just want us to have good theology He wants us to know and love Him.
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If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.
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