The Prayer That Changed My Life | An Interview with Francis Chan

Crazy Love Podcast

Crazy Love Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this recent interview with Charisma Magazine, Francis Chan reflects on his personal journey from insecurity to freedom in God’s love - the message at the heart of his brand-new book, Beloved. Francis shares how the Word of God has not only convicted him but opened his eyes to God’s promises, how prayer shifted his life at a crucial moment, and why our deepest identity must be rooted in being God’s beloved children. Don’t miss this conversation that weaves together reverence, freedom, and the joy of experiencing God’s love. Francis Chan’s new book, Beloved, releases October 7, 2025, but you can pre-order now through Amazon: https://www.crazylove.org/link/amznbk

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast.
0:07.0	What would change in your life if you really lived as someone completely secure in the love of God?
0:15.0	Today we're sharing a recent conversation between Francis Chan and Charisma magazine, where Francis discusses the
0:22.5	heart behind his new book, Beloved. He opens up about his own personal journey and the freedom
0:28.8	he's found in moving from insecurity and fear to resting fully in the Father's Love.
0:38.6	Well, Francis Chan, it's an honor to be able to speak to you here on Charisma Media.
0:43.5	Thank you for giving us the time to be able to share about this important message about the love
0:48.7	of God and truly what it means to receive that love of God.
0:53.7	We're going to talk about this new book that you have,
0:57.2	this new powerful message that God has really revealed to you more and more over the years
1:02.7	and how this has come about.
1:04.7	But I want to kind of bring in a little bit of my personal connection with you.
1:10.2	I started listening to your podcast years ago
1:13.1	and one of them from about 16 years ago is a message that you titled the most important lesson
1:19.4	I could ever teach it really marked me and I've used that to to play in front of other groups that
1:25.5	God has on the mission field to drive us towards the love of
1:31.5	the Word of God and how to read the Word of God until the Word reads me. But your new book,
1:39.4	Beloved, has added a layer that has been challenging me again and learning more to live securely
1:46.5	from the father's and be the father's beloved.
1:50.3	With these two threads, like trembling at the word of God, but also resting in love woven together.
1:55.9	Like how has God woven this together for you lately?
1:58.8	Well, I still believe what I said in 2009.
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