Finding God’s Light in Our Darkest Moments
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "You commission an artist to paint the best you that you can be. It's got to be captivating, compelling. Beautiful. Meaningful. Authentic. The best you you could even imagine. He's going to paint you. Your chosen artist is a little bit eccentric. Have you noted that artists usually are? He's just a little eccentric. He works only in the place where his art will hang, and he likes to work at night." [01:47] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "You see, God is working. He's working in the dark. He's working when you cannot see Him, when you cannot hear Him, when you don't feel Him. He was working long before you ever knew Him, before you were shaped in your mother's womb. Jeremiah assures us God knew you. He knew who you were going to be. He created you for a moment in time, and for His own purpose. God was working when you weren't aware that He even was." [05:14] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "So if you're in the valley right now just say right now to God, I'm coming out. I'm coming out by faith. I'm coming out by faith. This has come to pass. It has not come to stay. You have to understand that in your life. What comes to pass has come to pass not to stay. Life moves on. You move on and you look at everything that's stacked against you. A year from now it's going to be different." [12:28] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "You have no idea what God has in store for you so you cannot camp out in that present place of weariness and brokenness and I don't know what I'm going to do. You have to understand in the midst of that God is working his plan out. He's a God who works in the dark. He's a God who works in the dark. Something significant is going to happen." [12:55] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "God is on the field when he is most invisible. If you feel that God is further from you than he has ever been before, if he is invisible to you right now with what you're going through, you need to know this. God is on the field right now. Put yourself in trench warfare, 1915 in France. You're looking out over, and what do you see? You see a battlefield, and you wonder in the midst of all of that horror, where is God? Holden was saying God is right there in the middle of it." [29:53] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "The lonely hour of the soul is necessary. The dark place, the hard time, it's necessary. It's that place you discover God when all of your other senses bail. They all want to step away. All of your senses will deny your faith. It's in those moments you find yourself at a tipping point. You see, there's something that happens when we walk through the valley of the shadow that doesn't happen when we're just walking down the beach somewhere." [10:57] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "You can't live on the summit. The world's highest heights are called death zones. Once you pass about 22,500 feet climbing up Mount Everest or whatever, once you pass that, you enter into the death, they call it the death zone because your body is in the process of, you literally begin to die at that point. Because you are living with such an oxygen deprivation." [17:46] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "You can't live on the mountaintops. You simply cannot live on the mountaintops. When I was saved at 17, my dad was a preacher and he was a very well-read man. He had a massive library and when I came to know Jesus and surrendered my life to him and said I felt the call to ministry, he began to save at that point over the next four years anywhere he could find them, duplicates of his very best books." [25:12] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "God is not the source of darkness. He's light. And in him there is no darkness, the Bible says. God is not diminished or threatened by darkness. God doesn't abandon us. He doesn't abandon the night to fallen angels. He sees in the dark. He speaks in the dark. He moves in the dark. He works in the dark. God is painting in the dark. He's at work, even when you don't know it." [30:25] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Every last one of them. Out of the darkness. Out of the darkness. An ancient cardinal put it this way 10,000 difficulties do not make one doubt. Let's be people who tap into that. 10,000 difficulties do not make one doubt. The darkness needs to be so firm that even when we cannot see him we know he's painting in the dark. David said the darkness is his light to you. The darkness is his light to you." [39:41] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "You commission an artist to paint the best you that you can be. It's got to be captivating, compelling. Beautiful. Meaningful. Authentic. The best you you could even imagine. He's going to paint you. Your chosen artist is a little bit eccentric. Have you noted that artists usually are? He's just a little eccentric. He works only in the place where his art will hang, and he likes to work at night." [01:47] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "You see, God is working. He's working in the dark. He's working when you cannot see Him, when you cannot hear Him, when you don't feel Him. He was working long before you ever knew Him, before you were shaped in your mother's womb. Jeremiah assures us God knew you. He knew who you were going to be. He created you for a moment in time, and for His own purpose. God was working when you weren't aware that He even was." [05:14] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "So if you're in the valley right now just say right now to God, I'm coming out. I'm coming out by faith. I'm coming out by faith. This has come to pass. It has not come to stay. You have to understand that in your life. What comes to pass has come to pass not to stay. Life moves on. You move on and you look at everything that's stacked against you. A year from now it's going to be different." [12:28] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "You have no idea what God has in store for you so you cannot camp out in that present place of weariness and brokenness and I don't know what I'm going to do. You have to understand in the midst of that God is working his plan out. He's a God who works in the dark. He's a God who works in the dark. Something significant is going to happen." [12:55] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "God is on the field when he is most invisible. If you feel that God is further from you than he has ever been before, if he is invisible to you right now with what you're going through, you need to know this. God is on the field right now. Put yourself in trench warfare, 1915 in France. You're looking out over, and what do you see? You see a battlefield, and you wonder in the midst of all of that horror, where is God? Holden was saying God is right there in the middle of it." [29:53] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "The lonely hour of the soul is necessary. The dark place, the hard time, it's necessary. It's that place you discover God when all of your other senses bail. They all want to step away. All of your senses will deny your faith. It's in those moments you find yourself at a tipping point. You see, there's something that happens when we walk through the valley of the shadow that doesn't happen when we're just walking down the beach somewhere." [10:57] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "You can't live on the summit. The world's highest heights are called death zones. Once you pass about 22,500 feet climbing up Mount Everest or whatever, once you pass that, you enter into the death, they call it the death zone because your body is in the process of, you literally begin to die at that point. Because you are living with such an oxygen deprivation." [17:46] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "You can't live on the mountaintops. You simply cannot live on the mountaintops. When I was saved at 17, my dad was a preacher and he was a very well-read man. He had a massive library and when I came to know Jesus and surrendered my life to him and said I felt the call to ministry, he began to save at that point over the next four years anywhere he could find them, duplicates of his very best books." [25:12] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "God is not the source of darkness. He's light. And in him there is no darkness, the Bible says. God is not diminished or threatened by darkness. God doesn't abandon us. He doesn't abandon the night to fallen angels. He sees in the dark. He speaks in the dark. He moves in the dark. He works in the dark. God is painting in the dark. He's at work, even when you don't know it." [30:25] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Every last one of them. Out of the darkness. Out of the darkness. An ancient cardinal put it this way 10,000 difficulties do not make one doubt. Let's be people who tap into that. 10,000 difficulties do not make one doubt. The darkness needs to be so firm that even when we cannot see him we know he's painting in the dark. David said the darkness is his light to you. The darkness is his light to you." [39:41] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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