I don’t want to keep crawling when i have the ability to fly.
God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.
You’ve got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
Some of you could be worshipping God but you’re playing with a video game.
One of my biggest fears – maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian – is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.
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.
Why is it that we believe God’s promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?
Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.
God gave me the same power He gave Jesus. I ask myself daily, Why do I waste such a priceless gift?
God has not had an identity crisis. He knows that he is Great and deserves to be the center of our lives.
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.
A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.
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.
I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don’t push and prod people along.
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
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.’
Even in my own church I heard the words, ‘Francis Chan’ more than I heard the words, ‘Holy Spirit.’
The idea of holding back certainly didn’t come from Scripture.
There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.