Just a Closer Walk Thee

You can't control the world around All you can do is control whether or not you're gonna obey God. That's where you can actually have control. Everything else sits outside of that control. Now you don't feel like it sometimes. Sometimes you're like, but I can do this and I can do it. Okay. Great. You can pay your bills. What if you can't? You have good health. What if you don't? See, the reality is you have control because your life is orchestrated in such a way that you have control now, but it can change. Mhmm. One minute you have, the next minute you don't. Mhmm. Your obedience to God is your choice. [00:11:45] (39 seconds)  #ObeyGodOnly

but he does walk through your life that way if you will surrender and submit to him. Let me let me put it this way. You have to take one day at a time. Too many people try to change their lives on a mass scale. You know, you you sit there and you say, okay. I'm not reading my bible enough. So now I'm going to become a scholar of the word of God. No. You're not. Not tomorrow, you're not. But I can tell you this, if you will dedicate yourself to obedience and every day spend time with the Lord, he will change you. [00:13:39] (46 seconds)  #DailySurrender

Maybe God wants you to walk through that valley because you know what? One of the things some of us need is a little humility. God resists the proud, doesn't he? Sometimes when we're prideful in our heart, God brings us low to get us to look up and go, I need help. Mhmm. And it's a bad place to be, but it's a good place to be too because it brings you to the realization there is no other way. So first of all, let him ask in faith with no doubting. [00:28:23] (30 seconds)  #HumilityThroughValley

here's the point. That pill isn't my life. It's not my purpose. Jesus is. Mhmm. But I do remember to take the pill each and every day. Not only is it the way I should, but I do remember to take it. And so if I should manage to handle something I don't even care about, don't even want, why can't I manage having Jesus in my life each and every day? Plug Jesus into your daily routine. Make him the motivation for your whole day. [00:09:09] (31 seconds)  #PlugJesusDaily

it doesn't describe a passive waiting but an active endurance. Here here's the example I I came up with. It's not patients like waiting in a waiting room for your doctor to call you into the office. I'm sitting there patiently waiting for a doctor. It's patients like you have on a long track meet where you are going to have to get to your destination over a long period of time. And so you patiently run the course at a rate that you can sustain until the end. [00:20:20] (35 seconds)  #ActiveEndurance

Wisdom is not knowledge. It's not information. It's not knowing things. It's not being the smartest person in the room. Wisdom is being able to discern what God is trying to tell you and to act upon it. When God tells you to move, wisdom says I move. When God says go, wisdom says I go. When God says trust, wisdom says, you got it, God. Wisdom is a daily practice in your life. [00:23:41] (28 seconds)  #WisdomInAction

Sin can cause physical death, but it also causes spiritual death. And by the way, spiritual death doesn't look like, I hate God and I spiritual death is apathy towards God. I just don't think about it. You know, that's one of the most dangerous places that a person can be. I would rather tell somebody about Jesus and have them yell and scream in my face and get mad than to have them be like, yeah, hear your book. That's nice. Have a nice day. [00:42:06] (30 seconds)  #BewareSpiritualApathy

So really matters where your heart is in getting it. And, of course, James was told, James, there's so many people. There's dozens upon dozens of people. There'll be hundreds more that have the story that they have faith because they were healed. What a beautiful story that you can stand in front of people and say, I have faith despite having not been healed. Right. What a story that is. To look and say, god is good when things in my life aren't. Mhmm. [00:02:43] (30 seconds)  #FaithDespiteNoHealing