Overcomer: Part 1 - "Overcoming the Curse of Comparing" with Craig Groeschel - Life.Church

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[@alicereid1956]

I love this guy,,, he is so on top of the truth from our HEAVENLY FATHER TY

[@ilisaanand5836]

Where comparison starts, contentment ends! Thank you for this message!

[@ericawilburgh3907]

Great message. I needed to hear this.

[@TAMARAELISE]

Thank you God knew I needed this the sin of comparison had me living false victories. I have always made a decision to keep to myself and mind my own now that I am 21 going on 22 I am struggling so bad because u am feeling this anew it's all alot but I have to work through this adulting and growing up thing. I thought I could love God alone like me loving him alone in my little corner was perfect, but I'm never challenged and even worse I fall back into old habits. Thank you for more than words and prayers but for something I relate to firstly is logic. I feel the word of God is a way to understand what God wants us to know because I think God is too tooo tooooooo great x10 and we just on level one. So his level of thinking and understanding surpasses our little minds in this world so I say thank you Jesus Christ for never giving up on me.

[@BlessedEnergy_]

Amen amen amen thank you God and pastor for this needed message 🙏 🙌🏽 ❤️ 💕

[@life.church]

🙌

[@c.huddle4079]

Great message! I started feeling like I have inferior biceps in comparison while watching, so I opened a new tab and just listened. LOL! Love your heart, Craig. "3 If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else." Galatians 6:3,4

[@victoriashaw4488]

Love this message. How true that comparison kills contentment. And we need to run the race that God has created us for. I needed this reminder. Thank you

[@iCa11]

Paul said he doesn't care what people think about him, he is loving for Jesus and to do his works

[@life.church]

♥️

[@280jonna]

AMEN..

[@TheGODZILLA143]

Thank you Jesus may i never compare anything in my life GOD IS GREAT 🙏

[@RVsbladesnthangs]

What an encouragement this Church has been to me!

[@life.church]

❤️

[@cce212]

Amen to this preaching. So true 😎👍🏽😇😇. Pastor Craig is right

[@iCa11]

So much sense

[@okstateben]

Thank you God for Life.Church!

[@iCa11]

Thanks 😊

[@overcomer4226]

Never compared myself until I hit 50 years of age. A friend of similar age said that for us it's out part of our midlife crisis. I keep coming back and listening to this message every few days. It has helped me tremendously to not look at other people and to run my own race stay in my lane and fine God's purpose for the remainder of my life. Thank you pastor Craig this has done wonders for me Edit: 18:25 to 22:35 was anointed I have come back to listen to this passage of this message over and over and over again this was life changing for me life changing

[@livingthedream137]

I want to encourage our brothers (especially pastor Craig) at life church to build a culture of expository preaching instead of topical teaching. Teach the whole council of God and teach it deeply. Tell less personal stories and dive into the text and it's true meaning. More meat less milk. Love you guys. I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: 2preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. 5But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 2 Timothy 4:1-5

[@wht5764]

I heard this sermon on the life.church app and it burned me in a good way.

[@minhuyennguyen1719]

Really appreciate this powerful message Craig. Thank you for sharing your story and for being so transparent. God bless you and all of your extraordinary accomplishments.

[@bpositive9267]

This sermon was EXACTLY what I needed today.

[@life.church]

I'm so glad to hear that God was able to speak to your heart. ~ Bre LC

[@rainbowshadows4597]

this message is so good and I was shocked to see this was posted 4 years ago. 🙏 Glory to God whose words never perish.

[@life.church]

🙏🏼❤️

[@treenaedwards8471]

Powerful Word!

[@RizajenGomezLeonard]

I love this message! Where comparison begins, Contentment ends.

[@life.church]

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[@almasheppard4402]

I like your preaching very interesting I love the word of god and listen to you often it strengthens me you are very gifted keep preaching god bless

[@life.church]

Praise God!!! So glad, Alma, that you’re here! I appreciate your taking the time to share! Hope to see you again soon! “Whoever finds God, finds life!” kb lcyt Social Media Team

[@aymensaid1798]

this came at such a good time god bless you all praise and glory to jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bellautiful18]

Wow. Powerful message. I will watch this anytime I need a reminder.

[@sarahlee8022]

Thank you so much for allowing God to speak through you. He spoke to me too. May God continue to bless you and give you insight.

[@fabiookazaki]

Powerful message!! GOD bless Pastor Craig!

[@leasabussey2176]

Im so blessed to have such a wonderful church family

[@primo4206]

Intro creeped me out 😅😆 awesome sermon tho! Thank you pastor 🙏🏽❤️🤗

[@emmanueludofia1425]

Amazingly it’s my birthday 🥳 too 😊. Thank pastor for this powerful message.

[@life.church]

Praise God! ❤️ 🙌 And, happy birthday 🎉

[@charitycox8303]

I just wanted to thank you for your ministry to me today (a good five years after the actual upload, granted): this has been a serious problem area for me for years! I'm a PK who grew up in a P home full of anger: in short, I was constantly compared to my Mom and given the short and pretty humiliating end of it with no where to go: I always had to stuff it. It's been so bad that I have felt like a total absolute failure as a human being (and child of God) -- and is been hard to celebrate any of my successes, and there's been some other struggles too. This is helping me get a better grasp of my past, reality in the present, and realize -- I don't need to run Mom's race to be okay in God's eyes, as well as as a person. Thankyou!

[@life.church]

Thank you for sharing part of your story with us! Praying for your continued walk with The Lord! ♥️ Jas - Team LC

[@davisdelp9654]

AMEN !

[@michelleakinyi987]

There's never an external answer to an internal.need. Take home 🙈✋✋✋

[@virginiaestes348]

love this message look forward to the next one thank u

[@Blessedone90]

Comparison has been stealing my life.

[@RubenRodriguezBetances]

Great. From Dominican Republic. Thanks.

[@na-on1wc]

Going through this with my parents. Tried all my life. At 52 still trying knowing it won’t happen. Thank you

[@life.church]

Thank you, @ n a, for sharing. So glad you are here and listened to the message. You are created for God's purpose, and you are perfectly created for it! Psalms 139:13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. "Whoever finds God, finds life!" kb lcyt Social Media Team

[@lonathompson1440]

Amen. Needed this today!

[@mariajosevaldez6958]

So good! God bless !

[@BriaBarrows]

he's amazing. thank you

[@desomusic]

Awesome! Blessings from South Korea!!! Powerful word!

[@michelleakinyi987]

Powerful message!!!!

[@jaibo1313]

Kinda message that smacks you in the forehead!!! Thanks for the word!

[@JohnMutebe]

Awesome message. Just Stop comparing!

[@kennethamoore7068]

Great encouraging message

[@life.church]

So glad you found this message and it was so helpful, Kennetha! Chelsea -- LC Social Team

[@syldinihamelle7458]

c'est tres fort ce message. j'adore

[@andreasjoannisson9900]

Blessings from sweden

[@francismutuku9325]

Blessed

[@TheTOBroShow]

I literally wanted to unsubscribe. But, when I saw the message title and listened to it from beginning to end. I felt like I personally was being talked to about what I went through.

[@blessingjator2663]

Thank you so much for this video !!!it really helped

[@jolietia]

❤

[@alexhuffvn]

Funny how he used this story about John beating Peter in a foot race again the Sunday before last in the Called sermon

[@overcomer4226]

I have to disagree with something pastor Craig said toward the end of the message. He said That we would have no earthly Crown that fades away. From my own personal experience when I focus my eyes on Christ and walk my own path and run my own race I have a piece and a power that's incredible. My anxiety goes down my contentment increases my focus my goals my pursuits sharpen. my mind is sharper my decisions are better I have more energy when I focus on my race and let everybody else's fall by the wayside and maybe what he means is we won't necessarily I don't know what he means by earthly crowns but I can tell you there are benefits and reward to running your race

[@Blessedone90]

Did he say building a collection of pens? I don't feel weird anymore 😕

[@iCa11]

Biblical we are the church means we need to be part of the church, we are not a church on our own, someone said that is not biblical true

[@maycondouglas5738]

Tem que coloca legenda em Portugues kkkkkk

[@louisccooper5659]

Wnn

[@shanonkulkin3290]

Ok how this? I don't want to be er don't want to be est!!! I want to be us! As in Jesus!!!!😉💕

[@emmanueludofia1425]

Amazingly it’s my birthday 🥳 too 😊. Thank pastor for this powerful message.

[@michelleakinyi987]

There's never an external answer to an internal.need. Take home 🙈✋✋✋