Bryan Chapell Quotes

#1. God does not intend for us to predict outcomes as much as he intends for us to trust him in all circumstances.

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#2. Faith results in being faithful despite what comes, not telling God what should come.

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#3. Bitterness is the acid that eats its own container.

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#4. It was said of Charles Spurgeon that he "addressed two thousand people as though he were speaking personally to one man.

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#5. Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart.

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#6. Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own.

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#7. By praying in Jesus' name, we petition God to make our life shine for Christ's glory and eternity's purposes.

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#8. Belief in God's sovereignty coupled with his promises to reward those who diligently seek him (Heb. 11:6) provides even more powerful incentive to pray.

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#9. His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

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#10. Knowledge of our unchanging relationship grants us the will to fight and to reenter the fray when we have fallen,

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#11. Love for him compels us to live for him.

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#12. The reality of the ordinary progress of Christian understanding should not escape our notice: early believers "know no answers"; immature believers "know all the answers"; and mature believers "know the limits of our answers.

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#13. Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance; we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.

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#14. We sin not because we do not love Christ at all but because we don't love him above all.

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#15. To do anything in the Lord's name means to do it for his purposes. When we pray in Jesus' name, we are petitioning God to bring glory to Jesus and we are asking for his will to be done in everything so that he will be honored above all.

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#16. God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.

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#17. The love we show is the love we know.

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#18. Yet when our eyes see the full rainbow in Scripture - the completeness of God's plan - and know by faith that our lives are a part of God's design no matter what happens, then we can take whatever comes because we know that we are for the praise of his glory.

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#19. Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.

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#20. We also use the name of Jesus in our prayers to acknowledge what he is doing now. Not only does Christ give us his holy status

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#21. Prayer. Praying in Jesus' name is automatically a confession of our unworthiness and a proclamation of his worthiness.

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#22. Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heaven's purpose on earth.

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#23. Grace becomes not only the means by which God once justified us, it is also the means by which we are continually encouraged and enabled to serve him with undiminished delight.

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#24. Because of Christ's resurrection power at work in us, greater is he that is in us than the Evil One who tempts us (1 John 4:4).

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#25. Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

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#26. Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

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#27. The efficacy of the truths in God's message rather than any virtue in the messenger transforms hearts.

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#28. Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

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#29. John Calvin said he constantly studied to be simple.

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#30. I do not stop being a child of God because I am a problem child.

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#31. We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus' name to our prayers.

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#32. When we face real people with eternal souls balanced between heaven and hell, the nobility of preaching both awes us and makes us more aware of our inadequacies (cf. 1 Cor. 2:3).

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#33. God's care precedes his commands.

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#34. Paul preaches without shame in his delivery skills because he trusts that the Spirit of God will use the Word the apostle proclaims to shatter the hardness of the human heart in ways no stage technique or philosophical construct can rival.

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#35. Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

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