I want to challenge you over these next three weeks
– to wake up every morning
– and get on your knees and pray this prayer to God :
I repent of my sins.
I die to myself.
I surrender to you.
I am completely yours.
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I don’t want to be a fan-I want to be a follower completely committed to Jesus.
I want to work with building an unconditional relationship with my entire family- just as Christ has done for me.
kyle, you challenged us to not give up on our children and our grandchildren and though they are not following Christ -I am praying that they will see Christ in me and run to Him.
Well, Kyle I can do that! I have been on my knees every morning since last Monday asking for God’s help in making me a ‘follower’ and now I will just add to it! Wow, this is awesome. It is changing my life, and I thought I liked it the way it was. Now I am seeing what I have been missing. Onward and upward for me.
Bible study tonight at my home….I shall share the ‘not a fan’ site and your inspiration God has given you.
Joan
I remember a Beth Moore quote, “I have to get down before I can get up.” It’s much easier to sit in my chair and repeat the prayer than to get down on my knees and pray. Getting down on my knees does make a statement to me that I am getting down off my human pedestal and bowing to the Lord my God. It’s much easier to say than to make the effort to do. Let’s do it, “get down to get up.”
Not a fan.. a follower. Every thought a ‘decision of worship’. It is not just daily for me . Days seem too long to pray for..I have to do it first thing, next thing, again, again…For some of us it is hard to look further than the next few hours. Being a follower means being different than what the world views as normal. Friendships and relationships are not easily cultivated among ‘fans’ when you choose to be a follower. HE is faithful. Each day brings happiness in moments, challenges..peace knowing I can pray with a pure heart..
Keep ‘following’ Kyle. You are ‘leading’ by default!
The only person i want to be, is the person God wants me to be. Whoever he ordained me to be is the person i want to be. My life is not my own, but it is God’s and i want everyday of my life to be a love song to Jesus. I love the Lord and my prayer is to grow to love him more each day.
I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic grade school. At age 32 I was baptized and began my “pilgrimage” for Christ in the Christian church. I loved that the church’s foundation was founded on and preached straight from the Bible.
I was so thankful for finally understanding that I could have a personal realtionship with my Father. However, the ONE THING I miss from my Catholic church services is kneeling before my Creator to pray. Thank you for bringing this humbling yet so intimate form of prayer to your NOT A FAN challenge.
It takes 21 days to make a habit. I keep the prayer on my nightstand, so when I wake up, the first thing I do is get down on my knees. Soon it will be second nature…..or really, God should be first nature. I thank Kyle for this challenge.
I grew up in a small church in Georgia. My family only started going when I was around twelve. I started my belief in Christ when I was thirteen. I’m forty four now and I’ve come to believe that in order to have a full close relationship with Jesus you must take up your cross and follow him. It’s funny that the church did a story on Solonman when he wakes up and finds everything meaningless without God. I had that same experience about two years ago and new nothing about Solonman. I had completly surrender to Christ and I looked around and started saying everything I have is meaningless. I even told my children. When I found out Solonman had that same experience I found God speaking right to my heart. I went to visit Valley View church last week and guess what it was on? Solonman who had everything and found it meaningless without God.
I want to be a follower not a fan.
God Bless,
Thanks for your teaching
Kyle,This sounds unconventional,dangerous and like it may have no earthly reward at all.Count me in.I’m starting on the prayer in conjuntion with a new,pretty intensive exercise routine.I figure by combining the two the physical training will reinforce the spiritual training and vice versa.I’ll keep you posted on my progress and keep you ,your family and the SECC family in my prayers.God keep you brother.Luther.
I want to be a follower of Jesus. I feel like going to church and to classes at church has all become a routine. I want to feel that feeling again when I was first baptized. That feeling of being completely filled with joy and such love that I couldn’t stop smiling and the unbelievable peace I felt. But somehow in all my “serving” at the church I attend I’ve become more of a fan. I thank you Kyle for your example and how God is using you.
Hey Kyle, before your challenge of praying the prayer .. I was back in forth every once in a while struggling with a addiction that I kept picking up (smoking) I would do great for a long time and then something big and scarey would happen in life and i would run to that place i thought would calm me down… But, it only brought me guilt and more fear and a lot of dissappointment , I am faithfully getting on my knees and dieing to myself and ,God is now been in control .. Now 2- weeks are almost here and I am stilling @ times anxious and even think about going there , but God says , JANET you are a FOLLOWER not a FAN.. That is all it has taken to keep me walking on the straight and narrow path, those words are what god is using to keep me grounded and a commited follower…….. Thank you for your challenge I am hanging on please keep me in prayer.. I am not a fan I am a Follower..
Raised in the Catholic Faith. Divorced after 26 years of marriage and three children. Lost in my faith I came to Southeast. A Faces of Christ Retreat brought me to my knees and as close to God as I had ever been. Nov 1, 2003 I was baptized. My journey has had many high points, along with the low ones. I needed a challenge and God has brought it to me…to become not a fan but a follower. I thank God for bringing Kyle Idleman to Southeast and for reminding me that in order to become a follower I will need to get down on my knees…again.
Micah 6:8 – God asks that we Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly.
Kyle, after tonight’s sermon, (May 30) We’re totally confused! You have us questioning if we are on the right path. We always thought the narrow path was what we were on, but now we’re not so sure. We thought being saved and “trying” to do what Jesus taught us was what we were doing, but now we don’t know if that was enough We know we haven’t sacrificed, we haven’t “died dailY” (not sure what that exactly means), but we know we want to live a more fuller life for God and for others. So at this time we’re just fans, but we want to be followers. Thanks for the messages over the past weeks. It has opened our eyes and has us asking a lot of questions.
Starting today I will be adding the Not a Fan Daily Prayer to my Daily prayer from Jabez, in which I ask God to bless me and my family, ( along with many others, including Dave Stone and Kyle ), to expand my responsibilities and horizons, to give Him all the Thanks and Glory, and to ask Him to protect me from evil. Starting today I will tranform my life into being a Follower of Christ.
On my tombstone I want it to read that I was:
A Slave to God
A Follower of Christ
A Servant to all
I have been to listening to this series and accepted the challenge to be a follower. Many days can become a struggle as I move along my crowded day. I cut out the small not a fan cards from the website. I have one on the dashboard of my car. It reminds me where I need to be often during the day. I have come to count on that little crutch to be there more often than not when I drive. Somehow the words comfort me. I love the reflection (backwards words) on my windshield. One day when I got in my car at lunch I couldn’t find the reflected words and I kept looking and looking with no luck. I was becoming frustrated and thought it was a fluke that I had ever seen the reflection earlier. Maybe the sun was at the wrong angle or it only appeared a certain time of the day….excuses, excuses. I was beginning to get angry because i couldn’t find those reflected words. Not a fan. When I was driving home from work that evening checking a stop light I realized the reflected words had always been on my windshield hidden only by my inability to raise my head about six inches. I hadn’t been looking up or I would have seen the reflected words earlier in the day. I am more secure now because I know I need to look up to see the reflection, in fact I can find it every time I get in my car now. It seems easy now that I know where it is. Seek Christ and be a follower daily. He was, is and always will be there. It’s easy when you are a follower, you know the way.
wrote… I am right there with you about the confusion and questioning. I bought the T-shirt, but not sure if I am truly worthy enough to wear it.
This was a Hot Topic of discussion at our small Mens group on Tuesday night. Here is what we / I came up with in moving forward:
The Fact that you recognize that you aren’t quite there yet, means that you are closer to being a Follower than what you think. It’s when you think everything is ok, is when you’re in trouble!
On Good Friday service, Kyle brought out his wheel-barrow of “bricks”. One by one he began to place a brick at the foot of the cross, each one representing a sin, or fault. Eventually Kyle emptied the entire wheel-barrow all at once. He surrendered everything to Him. This weekend, Kyle is challenging us to do the same.
In closing, it is time to “go to the basement”. Time for us to take ourselves to the very bottom of our core beliefs, our failings, and do whatever it takes to bring oursleves out of that basement and back into the light. Step things up a notch.
Get down on our knees every morning, and meditate on this very short, but powerful prayer.
REPENT MY SINS. It is more than just saying I repent.
SURRENDER to Him. Turn everything we do today over to Him.
Tell Him, while you are on your knees, that You Completely Belong to HIm.
Whatever it takes to change our lives from being a fan, to LIVING as a Follower. It’s more than lip service.
i want to want to be completely His. but i don’t. i want to be my own. how do i reverse this?
Fan or Follower. Amazing sermon last Sunday Kyle at Crossroads Christian! It made me rethink a lot of things. I know I’m a follower but now more aware of what it meant and the responsibility I had when I raised my kids. A message for every Christian believer especially parents!
I am a fan, I don’t want to be, but, GOD knows! I will pray this prayer every morning until I feel Him in my heart, in my mind, and thru my words and deeds. I love my Lord, however, I have allowed life to happen to me. I am so bogged down with personal, family, work and health problems. I must keep my eyes turned upward to Heaven and understand that he is leading me down this path for a reason….
possibly to get my attention and I am too slow to pick up on His message. TODAy, I will focus on my Lord! Thank you Kyle, for the wonderful, life changing message.
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Not a fan of this prayer… sorry! I am a fan of the concept of making God the first thing you defer to in the morning (afternoon, evening, while you sleep etc.)… but that comes out of RELATIONSHIP and the choice to abide in the Vine. We cannot “make” fruit come out of our life… It is a by-product of the type of soil our seeds are sown in.
If the author of this blog isn’t careful- and doesn’t take a moment to clarify the necessity for relationship in lieu of “rules”… This could be just another rote prayer to pray to keep people from seeking out God/Jesus/Holy Spirit in their daily life (depending on a systematic prayer instead of seeking what it is GOD WANTS). Not to mention that Jesus himself gave us the way to pray in scripture (if rote is your thang)…
Please know that I totally agree with daily surrenduring your life to Christ- and daily asking “less of me and more of you”… But the Holy Spirit brings that kind of true surrender out of a deep desire to serve Him… not because of some ritual prayer.
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