Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast. If you look back on your life, when would you say were the times that you felt closest to the Lord. Was it when everything was going

well or was it during difficulty in trials? In this classic message

Francis Chan exhorts all of us to see suffering the way that scripture portrays it,

a means of fellowship with Jesus like no other. You guys, can we just forget for a moment that we're church planters or

pastors or whatever? Because this really has nothing to do with that.

It had to do with being a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ,

and actually hearing those words well done.

That's what so much of my life is about,

is not about how can I become this church planter or this or that. It's just, man,

am I going to do whatever he tells me to do right now. Am I open to his will right now?

That I may have shared with you before,

but it's that I just remember having a dream years ago

where one of those dreams I was so realistic and I thought that I had died in my

dream. First time in my life I ever died in a dream. I always got away somehow you know

and this was the one where I died and and I remember just in my bed, it was so real, I was on my knees and my face was in my pillow.

You ever have a dream so real, you're moving and, you know, like you're trying to catch a baseball or something and this one I'm on my

face and I am just shaking I'm literally sweating I'm terrified I really

thought I was in the presence of God and my face is in my pillow and I'm thinking

about everything I know about him. I'm thinking about Revelation Chapter 4 and I'm picturing

this throne before me and I'm picturing this being, this holy being, and these angels screaming out.

I'm picturing lightning and thunder and then all the, you know, the 24 elders, the 100 million angels,

the whole thing is going on,

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