You’re Not an Accident | Francis Chan

Crazy Love Podcast

Crazy Love Ministries

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What if all the insecurity, fear, and comparison have been lies—meant to distract you from something God settled before you were even born? So many live with a quiet ache, wondering if they really matter—if they’re really made for anything significant. But in Jeremiah 1, God tells us something staggering: ‘Before I formed you, I knew you.’ In this teaching, Francis Chan opens up about his own journey of self-doubt, and the breakthrough that came when he realized he wasn’t an accident. He was made for a purpose—and so are you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast. God told the prophet Jeremiah, before I formed you in the womb,
0:12.5	I knew you. That one sentence is more than poetic. It's life-changing. It means that God didn't just
0:19.3	notice when you showed up.
0:21.3	He designed you before day one.
0:23.8	Today, Francis Chan examines the call on Jeremiah's life, showing how God's intentional call
0:29.8	isn't just for prophets, it's for everyone.
0:33.2	Through this chapter, we see God's heart as Creator, his personal touch in our calling, and his
0:38.7	assurance that says, do not be afraid, I am with you.
0:45.5	I'm just excited to open up the Word of God to you today.
0:49.5	There's something so powerful about these words.
0:53.0	Like I almost want to just read them and then I'll just stare at it.
0:57.2	Because it's life-changing. You get all these opinions all week long and different people have
1:02.9	their thoughts and different opinions arise from your own mind. But then there's something that's
1:08.6	just great to look at this book and see these words that people have been looking at for thousands of years
1:14.5	that have changed their lives and there is just a power to it.
1:18.8	And I don't know if you ever get those times in life
1:21.0	when you just feel like everything is coming at you
1:23.8	and everyone has an opinion for you or criticism towards you just and all this stuff
1:29.7	you and you just want to get away from everyone and everything I mean this is the way I was feeling
1:35.5	like years ago where I just and just so you know I mean some of it was my own sin like my own
1:42.2	arrogance sometimes people just bug me You ever get to that point where
1:47.4	you're like, everyone bugs me right now? And you don't see your own faults. In fact, I remember
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