Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. It's not difficult to live a life in pursuit of our own dreams and ambitions.

And while those things aren't bad in itself, when you consider the reality of who God is, it's hard to know Him and walk away unchanged.

In this week's episode, Francis Chan brings us to Ephesians 3, verses 14 through 18, and reminds us to search our hearts and understand what it means to be filled with the fullness of God according to all the riches of His glory.

We pray that this episode will encourage you to truly live in Christ and to pray for others to live the same.

I need you guys to pray with me just for a minute. I'm still a little unsettled. I'm sure of what I want to talk about.

And it's getting close to the time when I'm supposed to speak.

And I want you to understand it's not, you know, people go, oh, yeah, I'm going to be like, Francis, I'm just going to get up and wing it.

And I do that occasionally, but that's after 20 years of verse by verse, getting into the word, you know, there's something, it's not like I'm just throwing stuff out of the air.

But I really look at each situation now and go, God, what do you want to say to this group of people?

You know, sometimes I come with a plan. I usually come with some sort of plan, but I get there and I look around and I sense what the spirit's doing and go, no, Lord, I don't think that's the passage for today.

What is the passage for today? And then once in a blue moon, you have a time like this where you go, I'm walking up, I still don't know.

And so then you pray, right? And you ask everyone else, would you just pray that God gives me the message that's specific for you, specific for today and for you?

I don't, I don't want to waste time. We're only on this earth for a little period of time.

And I want to say something that will actually impact you and will actually matter a hundred years from now, where maybe you even look me in the eyes a hundred years from now and say, thank you for having the courage to say that.

That's exactly what I need to say. I didn't like it at the time. Whatever it may be, like that, that's my purpose. I'm not here just going, okay, let me do the 20 minutes and jump back on the plane or this or that.

It's like, I'm thinking eternity. I'm thinking the clock is ticking and there's no time to just say whatever and just throw a can talk up there and be done with it.

I want this to matter. There's some serious hurts in this room. There are some serious lies in this room.

And it's like, Holy Spirit, how are you going to cut through all of this? The fears, the doubts, the lies.

And then others that are doing great and just need to continue to keep going that way. So would you pray with me?

Father, please give me wisdom to not waste our time here. Give me words to say so that when people leave, they'll be thinking about you and not me.

God, do something that is real and that is of your spirit, like the miracles we read about in the scriptures. I pray that what's done is from the Holy Spirit and not out of cleverness.

Let us lead us, Lord, in Jesus' name. Amen.

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