Craig Groeschel Quotes - Page 2

If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
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Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.
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Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
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The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
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One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others.
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Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess.
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Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.
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You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.
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No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.
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So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.
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Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass.
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I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.
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We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.
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Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.
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God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...a burden.
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Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.
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You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spiritually healthy.
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We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
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Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.
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I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.
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If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.
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We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.
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She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.
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If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.
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Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
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For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.
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My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
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But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
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He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.
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You've never really know what it's like to trust God to provide for you today, because you've got today provided for. And probably tomorrow too. Maybe even into next winter, with all the food socked away in that extra freezer in the garage.
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Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.
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Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives.
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The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say it again. Prayer is simply communicating with God. That one uncomplicated thought began to revolutionize my whole prayer life. What is communication? It's transferring a thought, feeling, emotion, or idea to another person. So prayer is giving God my thoughts, feelings, emotions, and ideas, by whatever means works. It doesn't have to be formal. It doesn't have to be long and dry. It's simply communicating.
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Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
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Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.
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God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've found that the things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden.
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When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.
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Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.
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Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the joy in being alive today.
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Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.
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Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.
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Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God?
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Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know.
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It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world. You were snared. You were hooked. But you don't have to stay that way. Now is the time to deal with the shackles that keep you enslaved. Today you can leave the prison that sexual immorality has created from your past mistakes. Hear your Father's voice call out to you above the noisy clamor of our culture. He says, "I love you. You're free to go now. Sexual sin has no hold on you.
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If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.
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Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.
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Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.
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I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.
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He puts us here to make an eternal difference.He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He loves them.He puts us here to be His hands and feet, His body and His heart.
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She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.
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His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.
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Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?
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Where your money goes, there your heart follows.
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When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both.
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You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.
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The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring, and glorifying God. After all, generosity is fundamental to God's nature.
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Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God's goodness.
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God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal difference. So God gave you unique gifts, talents, passions, and experiences to propel you into your life purpose.
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To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit.
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If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.
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