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My only prayer for my time with you is, God I just want these men and women to long for you.

Francis Chan

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Francis Chan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 31
Author
Pastor
Theologian
Hong Kong SAR
China
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Christian
Women
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Leadership
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With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
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...if God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?
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There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.
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A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.
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The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
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We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
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Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.
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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 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. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.
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Lukewarm people think about life on earth much more often than eternity in heaven.
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