J. D. Greear - God Quotes

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True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.

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If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.

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God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

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Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

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When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.

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Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.

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The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy than anything we could own. When we see Jesus as greater than anything the world can offer, we'll gladly let everything else go to possess Him.

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Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.

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Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

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My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God's acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

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What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?

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We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.

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True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

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The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.

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A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.

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As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".

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Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God's absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good.

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