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“This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness”
-- David Platt
#Greatness #People #Way
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“Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.”
-- David Platt
#Jesus #Believe #Decision
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“Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.”
-- David Platt
#Christian #Powerful #Inspiration
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“That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.”
-- David Platt
#Order #Needs #Culture
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“In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.'”
-- David Platt
#Jesus #Mean #Self
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“The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.”
-- David Platt
#Letting Go #Safety #Risk
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“Passionate worship always leads to personal witness. Always. And what that means is . . . if we’re not witnessing, there’s a problem with our worship. We’re not seeing God for who He is! We’re not realizing what He’s done! We’re not realizing the magnitude of what He’s done for our souls!”
-- David Platt
#Mean #Soul #Passionate
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“I believe that the gospel and the American Dream have fundamentally different starting points. The American Dream begins with self, exalts self, says you are inherently good and you have in you what it takes to be successful so do all you can, work with everything you have to make much of yourself. The gospel begins with God, the reality that we were created to exalt his name to the ends of the earth.”
-- David Platt
#Dream #Believe #Successful
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“To everyone wanting a safe, untroubled, comfortable life free from danger, stay away from Jesus. The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.”
-- David Platt
#Jesus #Safe #Depth
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“As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.”
-- David Platt
#Dying #Normal #Obedience
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“When God tells us to give extravagantly, we can trust Him to do the same in our lives. And this is really the core issue of it all. Do we trust Him? Do we trust Jesus when He tells us to give radically for the sake of the poor? Do we trust Him to provide for us when we begin using the resources He has given us to provide for others? Do we trust Him to know what is best for our lives, our families, and our financial futures?”
-- David Platt
#Jesus #Issues #Giving
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“We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us...because we love His glory more than we love our lives.”
-- David Platt
#Moving #Glory
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“My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. ”
-- David Platt
#Jesus #Settling #Obedience
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“We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.”
-- David Platt
#Messages #Christianity #Settling
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“God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.”
-- David Platt
#Concern #Ultimate
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“The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.”
-- David Platt
#Love You #Biblical #Enemy
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“But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.”
-- David Platt
#Wish #Looks #Care
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“If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.”
-- David Platt
#Trust In God #Lifetime #Eternity
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“God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.”
-- David Platt
#Ready
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“In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.”
-- David Platt
#Biblical #People #Grace
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“A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.”
-- David Platt
#Church #World #Materialistic
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“We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.”
-- David Platt
#Encouraging #Fighting #Needs
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“God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.”
-- David Platt
#News #Way #Salvation
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“The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.”
-- David Platt
#Jesus #Strategy #Mega
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“May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.”
-- David Platt
#May
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“If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative strategies and plotting elaborate schemes. We would organize conventions, develop programs, and create foundations… But Jesus is so different from us. With the task of taking the gospel to the world, he wandered through the streets and byways…All He wanted was a few men who would think as He did, love as He did, see as He did, teach as He did and serve as He did. All He needed was to revolutionize the hearts of a few, and they would impact the world.”
-- David Platt
#Jesus #Heart #Men
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“While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.”
-- David Platt
#Dream #Goal #American Dream
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“The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.”
-- David Platt
#Nice #World #Glory
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“I want to be apart of something that can only be explained by the hand of God!”
-- David Platt
#Hands #Want
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“When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus”
-- David Platt
#Jesus #Wealth #Prosperity
