Talk

Trusting What God Says About Me

Francis Chan

January, 3, 2017

Francis Chan invites us to take steps forward into trusting what God says about us rather than relying on our own opinions and feelings about ourselves. While we struggle with our identity and not measuring up to human standards, Francis illuminates the scriptures, identifying us as God’s richest inheritance.

Scripture References

18You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm;

19to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them,

20because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”

21The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”

22But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,

23to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

24to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways,”

declares the

Lord

9“As the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

16I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.

17I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

18I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

19and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength

20he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,

9However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,

what no ear has heard,

and what no human mind has conceived”—

the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.14The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16for,

Francis Chan

New York Times bestselling author and pastor of Cornerstone Community Church