Craig Groeschel - God Quotes

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Seek God. Hear from God. Receive his vision. Let it overwhelm you. Consume you. Burden you. Tell the vision. Cast the vision. Communicate the vision. And watch it spread.

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Doing the wrong new things, things that usurp what God calls us to do, is dangerous. Focus tends to let it breathe. Lack of focus generally suffocates it.

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Don't let the rules of man stop you from following God. When he gives it to you, go with it.

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I believe that God makes it available to anyone who wants it. I believe he wants to give it to you and your ministry.

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The best explanation I can give of what it is, is this: it is what God does through a rare combination of these qualities found in his people: Passion for his presence; A deep craving to reach the lost; Sincere integrity; Spirit-filled faith; Down-to-earth humility; Brokenness.

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Those with it recognize that God brings it. It is not found in the things the eye can see.

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If you've ever been part of a ministry that had it, you knew you were part of something special. In other words, you knew it when you saw it. And it was an awesome work of God that couldn't be contained, couldn't be harnessed, and couldn't be explained.

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If there is any group in the world that should be motivated to make improvements, reflecting God's creative nature, it should be Christians.

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Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.

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Let God turn fear into faith. Instead of becoming a hesitant leader, ask God to make you bold and aggressive.

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The clearer your vision becomes, the easier it is to guard what God calls you to do.

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To have it, we have to care about those who are far from God.

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There's a huge difference between a good idea and a God-inspired idea.

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Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

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Sometimes the fruit of your steps of faith is measured not so much by what God does through you as by what God does in you.

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God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

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When you increase your focus, you decrease your options. Good things are not necessarily God things.

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You are not who others say you are. You are who God says you are.

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God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

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God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

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God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

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Have you hit an obstacle that appears impenetrable? Maybe God will guide you to see something that you couldn't have seen if he'd just removed the wall.

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I believe Christians often perceive obedience to God as some test designed just to see if we're really committed to Him. But what if it's designed as God's way of giving us what's best for us?

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Whenever you're tempted to whine about what you don't have, remember that God has given you everything you need to do everything he wants you to do.

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When we look at other people comparatively and competitively, we're not seeing them as our brothers and sisters. We're not loving them more than we love ourselves, and we we're definitely not seeing them as God sees them.

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