We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
Francis ChanRead
God never breaks His promises.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the unwavering nature of divine promises.
Francis Chan's quote emphasizes the belief that God is infallible and that His promises are eternal and trustworthy. It suggests that no matter the circumstances, one can rely on the assurances given by God, reinforcing faith and resilience in times of doubt.
In practice
During a church service to inspire congregation trust in God's plans.
We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
A disciple is a disciple maker.
Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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.
...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God's kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress.
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.
They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age may be remembered chiefly for one fact: It was the time when the inhabitants of the earth first made contact with the vast cosmos in which their small planet is embedded.
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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