@Benjamin Eby cant it be the fact that he has great concern for your soul and has great conviction to share God's love to all of us? It's up to you to believe or not, but God is real and true. Everything even the things you see everywhere shouts His glory. You can say I'm crazy but most scientist were able to prove what was mentioned in the Bible! IN THE BIBLE!!!!Just imagine that! No technology to see the Universe and yet was able to explain all things that came to being. So Francis Chan is def not faking it. It's not for media purposes. He cares about your soul
I just love your message here on utube and I have only one book although my Pastor Lenny has another that I will get from our church library asap. God is great and you bring him to reality although my heart brings him to life. Pastor Len and you just remind me to remember to seek God daily. Now I do. Thank you and your family for being here. God has blessed us.
I just purchased your book ,"Crazy Love" on an E-book from Google; and I am a Hebrew Christian being born in Israel and coming to America at the age of 14 being a Reformed Jew and receiving Jesus into my heart on Easter Sunday morning 2004, and believing the verse John 3:16, and God brought to my mind that Jesus is the Son of God the Father, and now I have a real relationship with God and am blessed to have Him for the last 14 years.
God took something out of my life that I really loved, and I complained about it, fell completly back to square one. But I thank God for this book, for reminding me who he is and the majesty he beholds.
This book Crazy Love has reminded me of my first love in my relationship with God. And if you find your life stuck in a rut of repetitive works, I encourage you to pick up this book with your Bible and let the words jump off the page and breathe new life into you as it takes you to a place of returning to your first love of Christ. God is bigger than your biggest problem. And His love for you is so strong you can only handle a drop of it at a time or you would melt in His glory.
My first thought is I can not even wrap my mind around how Great and Awesome God is. I am lost for words. To think that God wants to have a relationship with me!!
I've been a Christian since I was a kid and I also have my own set of routine prayers, I completely relate to this! My only problem is that there are certain things I have to pray about every day (I don't remember a night in my life where I didn't pray for my parents and siblings and grandmother and the lost etc.). I've thought about changing it a bit but I just fall into another routine every time. I'm quite challenged though, I have to remember that God is a person and that I have a relationship with Him. I needed this !
I also used to pray as if I were talking to a friend when I was young and unchurched,then as I gave my life over to the care of Our Lord Jesus Christ and started going to church I felt like I wasn't praying RIGHT?? Thank you for helping me to realize I was praying CORRECTLY all along! God is GOOD!Thank you Lord for Loving and ACCEPTING a wretch like me!
Glory to god who picks us up while we are down and is always watching.I love you lord but not nearly as much as you love me.Since your love is never ending and no one can take that from us.This is the time to strength your prayer life with god there no better time! We are living in the end times and i believe we are the last generation so don't falter since Christ will be here soon.God bless everyone !!!!!
I took this approach even in my singing of songs during church service. I am humbled and brought to tears each time. Thank you. It is humbling and wonderful to realize the power and the essence of who God is.
this is how i pray when i was a kid, like i was talking to a person, and people told me i have awful prayers cause i don't follow the structure. i didn't know there was a structure and what too embarrassed to ask what it is so I went on doing on my prayer. now I realize it was actually okay not to follow structure as long as its heartfelt. thank you for this. :)
I am totally late to the game here! I acquired the book and subsequent Bible study of this from my sister. She hadn't filled in the Bible study, so I am! I love doing studies in the morning before work. Finding studies that do not require being a part of a group or paying for video sessions, however, is difficult, and my budget is minimal. I bought over $40 worth of Bible study books last year from a discount Christian book supplier and have only been able to do a few because the sessions and questions don't make sense without the videos... and the video sessions were only availabe for purchases, either on actual DVDs to play at home or as online videos. Thank you Francis Chan for making these free and to afast26er for having all the sessions available in one spot.
Amen!!!! I'm thankful I got to watch this and I"m reading the book CRAZY LOVE and I feel so inspired to start praying differently…and also challenged to think what I would really say to GOD. I think I would fall at my knees and say "You deserve my worship for you are GOD and it's all about you... not me. Thank you though for loving me enough to die for me and want a relationship with me. I want the best relationship with you I can have." And saying all that still wouldn't do God justice for who he really is but what I"m understanding about God is that he still loves me and wants to hear my prayers which really does blow my mind when I STOP TO THINK ABOUT IT. I always thought of myself as a pretty good person too especially compared to some people that I thought were pretty evil but the "STOP AND THINK ABOUT IT" video by Francis Chan really helped me understand that God doesn't compare me to people and he doesn't want me to compare myself to others and think I'm better because in reality I'm not better…I'm actually guilty just as much as anyone and everyone is guilty the bible says…but Jesus did pay for our sins and will consider us not guilty if we forgive and ask to be forgiven. I'm not trying to write a sermon, I just am blown away by how awesome and BIG our GOD really is and I hope and pray more people can know GOD better and see how amazing he really is and crave a relationship with him.
When he started to talk about how he saw God with diamonds and things, my eyes and mouth were wide open, i've never in all my 15 years saw God as someone as amazing and big as that. I saw Him in such a meek comparrison to what Francis described and even THAT isnt all God, you can't imagine how great He REALLY is, wowowow.!!!!
I also love the morning -- I savor it! Through and through. The gift of God is so present in the sunrise -- that He rises in my heart and spirit as well right along with the cosmic event of morning.
it's so important to remember who we are speaking too, yet we are so out of it to even think about even doing that! We kind of have to step back on a daily basis and stand in awe of the King who we are given the privilege to speak too!
What a blessing... I needed this message... I used to pray every day and feel God very close to me, but for some reason, not having found the right church for me yet I have not prayed liked I used to before and after this message I just feel burning in my heart to pray like I used to again knowing that God is listening. "God you know my heart, I love you and want you to forgive all of my sins again, thank you for everything you continue to do in my life. In the name of Jesus I pray Amem"
Thanks so much for your awesome book! I just started reading it, and your very first chapter is already changing my mind about who God is, and just how totally incomprehensible His Love is for us. I will never pray the same again!. Thanks sooo much..
I was brought to tears listening to this, wow what an incredible word! The first word I would say would be thank you father! Loving this new adventure I on with the creator of the universe, it doesn't get any betting than that!
My bible study leader sent this out to us on Facebook and all I could think of was "ugh I guess I shouold watch it" So I did and it was amazing. Thank you!
I love how in many different sermons francis uses word casual. With prayer with our relationship with god and not getting casual about things like that .. he speaks in a way young folks understand Keep it up francis love to you from monterey CA
Thank you so much, Francis, for such inspiring and jarring videos and also the emails I have been receiving on Lukewarm believers. you have really woken me up to try my very best at turning over a new leaf and becoming closer to the ONE who has saved me and who loves me dearly. If I met HIM for the first time I would thank him so very much for the creation that he provided for us and that my eyes get to see every day and how every day I see something or learn something new that literally has me in awe.
Yes Pastor Chan so true, thank you for sharing this and bringing it to light. It really changes your perspective of prayer. When in relationship with God it changes your prayer life, God wants us to have that father/child relationship with Him. We recognize His sovereignty, yes, and we come to Him as His children.
thank you so much for this! :-) I picture Jesus walking up and down the aisles while worshipping at church, but never really had that same perspective when I pray. Praise God! I've had your book and guide at my house for months now, never opened the book to read until today on a whim, really needed this :-)
My first words would be....I love you! As tears flow down my cheeks. As I type this.. I'm crying wanting Him to hear these words from my mouth to His ears....I love you! 💘
The sound the fork makes would be the same sound of your Chinese prayer. Lol. Just messsssin'. This was cool Brother Chan...listening from Korea. Thanks for allowing us to have devos annnnd breakfast with you.
Today, Sunday 19 July 2020, is a fresh start for me. Back in the 1980s & early 1990s, when I was in my teens & early 20s (man, I feel old! haha) I had so much passion for God. Bu then I started to let life get in the way. Today, though, I am starting to mive back towards my first love, to fall in love with Him again. This video has helped with that. Thank-you, Francis Chan.
I appreciate your transparency and passion for God!! Thank you for not getting caught up in the ridiculous American religious rhetoric out there! Thank you for teaching us to really see the Lord!♥♥♥👣💯
LOVE these videos, LOVE him, LOVE God! Man, I long to have this close relationship with my God. He makes it sound so easy. It's really hard for me. My brothers and sisters in Christ, if you could pray for me in this regard, I would really appreciate it! God bless!
Oh, My God, I love this! This is really nice. I really enjoyed the conversation. I like your spirit. I like your beautiful wife spirit as well. Thanks, this was nice.
The kids & I studied " The Lords Prayer ". The ages were 7yr-10yrs. We took it verse by verse and discussed it in detail. To see them realize and have that "a ha" moment was so awesome! To see them learning & absorbing Gods will & word was fantastic. Whats great is that I learned something as well. It stood out to me " your will be done on earth as it is in heaven " I realized that means I better act on earth as if I'm already in heaven. So if I wouldn't do it in heaven don't do it on earth!
when Francis spoke of how he envisioned God, with the diamonds and everything else he described I fell to me knees and my eyes were just wide open. I couldn't dare to move and my eyes started to tear as I recognized a piece of his glory. If only all men could have a taste or a sight of what he looks like. I feel so blessed that he would reveal part of his glory to me. Seek him, [as if] he is a king sitting on a throne in heaven with lightening and thunder and fire and diamonds covering him
