Embracing God's Unconditional Love and Resilience in Trials
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"God, we do thank you that you've made us part of your forever family, that nothing can separate us from your love. Not our wanderings, not our mistakes, not our good deeds. Nothing can separate us from your love. So we come in wonder and humility, giving you thanks and praise." [00:11:59] (22 seconds)
"And so I love that because it's what binds us together. And yet, even though we fail and we follow our, not the path of Jesus, Jesus again and again declares to us, I understand that. I forgive you. Take my hand. Let's get going. And so may his Holy Spirit fall upon you, letting you forget, allowing his forgiveness to allow you to forgive yourself." [00:14:16] (33 seconds)
"His banner over us is love. That despite all the other things that might happen in a relationship with Jesus, the most important thing you know is that he loves you. And that's his banner. Let's pray. Dear Jesus, thank you that your banner over us is love. Help us to rejoice in that. Amen." [00:18:36] (26 seconds)
"Fret not yourself because of evil doers. Don't fret you know what fretting is thinking about it over and over over again fretting right don't fret yourself because of evil doers don't be envious of wrongdoers why for they shall soon fade away like the grass and wither like the green herb don't fret when you get like attacked when nonsense is happening your way you don't have to worry about those that are doing it too don't fret because their day will come but what do we do trust in the lord and do good in the middle of it all it's like okay i gotta trust you lord like like i can't be following my baser instincts i have to ask lord what is it that you'd have me do here i trust that you're in with me in the midst of this chaos and the second thing is as you're trusting him you're to do good so what does good look like here lord in the midst of this trial and then he has this incredible promise dwell in the land uh and befriend the faithfulness and another version says that you will know safety and you will prosper and so ultimately that's what we want in the middle of our chaos and our trial we want to be safe again and we want to prosper because if we let our our baser instincts if these these trials these people are trying to take us out or sometimes we try to take our own self -sabotage if we let those things take their root all of a sudden they will uh control the narrative and that becomes our lord revenge getting what we deserve fighting you know in all of these ways and he says no no don't let that be the narrative of your life trust the lord and do good like what does it mean to trust god in the midst of this trial his body blow okay and then do good like the lord and goodness are tied together like a coin you could say do good and trust the lord or you can say" [00:25:14] (150 seconds)
"Delight yourself in the lord and he will give you the desires of your heart so in the midst of all of this trial that you're in the midst of uh you're asking okay lord i know you're with me i know you're all powerful all -knowing i know that you you your presence is with me your spirit is with me i know you're going to help me get through this okay help me figure out what good is okay and then there's some safety and uh prosperity happens in your soul but then he says well if you can delight yourself in the lord he'll give you the desires of your heart and that the whole sense of delighting means that that when you when you're hurt it's hard to delight but but to delight in the lord is to remember all those other places in your life and the life of those that you know where the lord has proven himself to be faithful it's to remember if you go through the scriptures and you can begin to read your scriptures and you can see you know jesus healing the the blinds and the and helping the broken and the and you start to like delight in that and you look at your own album of places where the lord has been in your life and and you're focusing on that you're delighting in him you're letting praise fm live in your soul rather than that other station complaint have you ever been there complaint fm uh regret fm all these other stations that we tune into negativity fm i'm gonna find faults with everyone fm he says no no turn those stations off delight in the lord fm the promise is he'll give you uh the desires of your heart he'll make heaven happen to you in the midst of your hell" [00:29:07] (111 seconds)
"And the more that you navigate in this way, the more it builds resilience in you. In fact, you don't fear the trial anymore, because you know a way through it. And you begin to have all of these experiences experiences of times when you've been body checked by evil and taken out. And yet you've learned to trust in the Lord and do good. And how it always seems to work out again and again and again and again. And so this hundredth blow is going to work out again. In fact, James writes that we're supposed to know this so well, this drill, this protocol so well, that when we get trials, he says, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, when you get trials of all different kinds, because within it is producing steadfastness. And when it finishes its work, it's going to make you complete and ready for any work." [00:33:19] (66 seconds)
"And so when God plants a word here in Scripture and says, this is what you're called to do, this is the protocol, the big thing is, will God answer it? Well, you know, does God have the capacity and the goodness to honor us when we submit to his protocol? So in the midst of our trial, when we trust in him and we do good, when we turn on the Praise FM, and do we see that he will honor the fact that we'll have safety and that our souls will prosper and that we'll have the things that we long, deep longings for in our heart will be realized. Like, is this actually happening?" [00:35:32] (43 seconds)
"And so I want to go through what happens up in heaven. First of all, we see this incredibly glorious throne room with a rainbow around the whole of this throne room and there's this glassy kind of marble, but it's see -through. And we see one massive throne and there's thundering and lightning and there's 24 other thrones beneath it with the elders. Those are people of integrity. To be an elder in a church in the New Testament was to be a person without blame, to be someone who is trusted, who's mature, who's Christ -like. And so we have these 24 elders there." [00:36:29] (55 seconds)
"And what do they say? There's enough content that we're told that day and night they never cease. Singing. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. And so they can see what God has done, what God is doing, what God will do, and they're saying, holy, holy, holy. He is like, he's beyond anything that we've ever seen. That's what holy means. It's separated from whatever we've seen before. He is so in a league of its own." [00:39:29] (34 seconds)
"And yet, in her mind, she begins to hear Psalm 37. Trust in the Lord, do good. Trust in the Lord, do good. Trust in the Lord, do good. And as she ponders it, there's a strange peace that comes over her. She remembers praying, God, I don't understand, like, why this has happened, but I trust that you're good and I trust that you're with me. And I'm going to, I'm going to do good. Help me figure out what good means here. Like, I don't even know how to tell the kids. I don't know how to plan a funeral. I don't even know how to plan my life. Like, everything is, but I'm going to trust you. I'm going to try to do good, whatever good I can." [00:41:59] (37 seconds)
"And every time she starts to slip into depression and darkness, she hears that, Psalm 37, Psalm 37, Psalm 37, and she switches back her tears and her depression. She's like, help me, Lord, help me, Lord, to trust you. I don't know how my life's going to work out anymore. Soon, a girlfriend comes by and they've been taking a pottery class and she's a pretty good potter. I mean, actually very good." [00:42:59] (29 seconds)
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"And so I love that because it's what binds us together. And yet, even though we fail and we follow our, not the path of Jesus, Jesus again and again declares to us, I understand that. I forgive you. Take my hand. Let's get going. And so may his Holy Spirit fall upon you, letting you forget, allowing his forgiveness to allow you to forgive yourself." [00:14:16] (33 seconds)
"His banner over us is love. That despite all the other things that might happen in a relationship with Jesus, the most important thing you know is that he loves you. And that's his banner. Let's pray. Dear Jesus, thank you that your banner over us is love. Help us to rejoice in that. Amen." [00:18:36] (26 seconds)
"Fret not yourself because of evil doers. Don't fret you know what fretting is thinking about it over and over over again fretting right don't fret yourself because of evil doers don't be envious of wrongdoers why for they shall soon fade away like the grass and wither like the green herb don't fret when you get like attacked when nonsense is happening your way you don't have to worry about those that are doing it too don't fret because their day will come but what do we do trust in the lord and do good in the middle of it all it's like okay i gotta trust you lord like like i can't be following my baser instincts i have to ask lord what is it that you'd have me do here i trust that you're in with me in the midst of this chaos and the second thing is as you're trusting him you're to do good so what does good look like here lord in the midst of this trial and then he has this incredible promise dwell in the land uh and befriend the faithfulness and another version says that you will know safety and you will prosper and so ultimately that's what we want in the middle of our chaos and our trial we want to be safe again and we want to prosper because if we let our our baser instincts if these these trials these people are trying to take us out or sometimes we try to take our own self -sabotage if we let those things take their root all of a sudden they will uh control the narrative and that becomes our lord revenge getting what we deserve fighting you know in all of these ways and he says no no don't let that be the narrative of your life trust the lord and do good like what does it mean to trust god in the midst of this trial his body blow okay and then do good like the lord and goodness are tied together like a coin you could say do good and trust the lord or you can say" [00:25:14] (150 seconds)
"Delight yourself in the lord and he will give you the desires of your heart so in the midst of all of this trial that you're in the midst of uh you're asking okay lord i know you're with me i know you're all powerful all -knowing i know that you you your presence is with me your spirit is with me i know you're going to help me get through this okay help me figure out what good is okay and then there's some safety and uh prosperity happens in your soul but then he says well if you can delight yourself in the lord he'll give you the desires of your heart and that the whole sense of delighting means that that when you when you're hurt it's hard to delight but but to delight in the lord is to remember all those other places in your life and the life of those that you know where the lord has proven himself to be faithful it's to remember if you go through the scriptures and you can begin to read your scriptures and you can see you know jesus healing the the blinds and the and helping the broken and the and you start to like delight in that and you look at your own album of places where the lord has been in your life and and you're focusing on that you're delighting in him you're letting praise fm live in your soul rather than that other station complaint have you ever been there complaint fm uh regret fm all these other stations that we tune into negativity fm i'm gonna find faults with everyone fm he says no no turn those stations off delight in the lord fm the promise is he'll give you uh the desires of your heart he'll make heaven happen to you in the midst of your hell" [00:29:07] (111 seconds)
"And the more that you navigate in this way, the more it builds resilience in you. In fact, you don't fear the trial anymore, because you know a way through it. And you begin to have all of these experiences experiences of times when you've been body checked by evil and taken out. And yet you've learned to trust in the Lord and do good. And how it always seems to work out again and again and again and again. And so this hundredth blow is going to work out again. In fact, James writes that we're supposed to know this so well, this drill, this protocol so well, that when we get trials, he says, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, when you get trials of all different kinds, because within it is producing steadfastness. And when it finishes its work, it's going to make you complete and ready for any work." [00:33:19] (66 seconds)
"And so when God plants a word here in Scripture and says, this is what you're called to do, this is the protocol, the big thing is, will God answer it? Well, you know, does God have the capacity and the goodness to honor us when we submit to his protocol? So in the midst of our trial, when we trust in him and we do good, when we turn on the Praise FM, and do we see that he will honor the fact that we'll have safety and that our souls will prosper and that we'll have the things that we long, deep longings for in our heart will be realized. Like, is this actually happening?" [00:35:32] (43 seconds)
"And so I want to go through what happens up in heaven. First of all, we see this incredibly glorious throne room with a rainbow around the whole of this throne room and there's this glassy kind of marble, but it's see -through. And we see one massive throne and there's thundering and lightning and there's 24 other thrones beneath it with the elders. Those are people of integrity. To be an elder in a church in the New Testament was to be a person without blame, to be someone who is trusted, who's mature, who's Christ -like. And so we have these 24 elders there." [00:36:29] (55 seconds)
"And what do they say? There's enough content that we're told that day and night they never cease. Singing. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. And so they can see what God has done, what God is doing, what God will do, and they're saying, holy, holy, holy. He is like, he's beyond anything that we've ever seen. That's what holy means. It's separated from whatever we've seen before. He is so in a league of its own." [00:39:29] (34 seconds)
"And yet, in her mind, she begins to hear Psalm 37. Trust in the Lord, do good. Trust in the Lord, do good. Trust in the Lord, do good. And as she ponders it, there's a strange peace that comes over her. She remembers praying, God, I don't understand, like, why this has happened, but I trust that you're good and I trust that you're with me. And I'm going to, I'm going to do good. Help me figure out what good means here. Like, I don't even know how to tell the kids. I don't know how to plan a funeral. I don't even know how to plan my life. Like, everything is, but I'm going to trust you. I'm going to try to do good, whatever good I can." [00:41:59] (37 seconds)
"And every time she starts to slip into depression and darkness, she hears that, Psalm 37, Psalm 37, Psalm 37, and she switches back her tears and her depression. She's like, help me, Lord, help me, Lord, to trust you. I don't know how my life's going to work out anymore. Soon, a girlfriend comes by and they've been taking a pottery class and she's a pretty good potter. I mean, actually very good." [00:42:59] (29 seconds)
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