Trusting God's Presence and Timing in Our Lives

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"He's a faithful Father, though, and when you seek Him, He'll hear you, and He'll answer you. Not always as quickly as we'd like Him to. One of the characteristics, I think, of God is that He's slow, but He gets it done, and His timing is perfect. But to me, He's slow. And so I try to speed Him up, He gets a little bit of road rage, and He puts the brakes on, and He just slows down. You can't speed God up. He's got perfect timing." [00:29:02] (32 seconds)


"If you don't train your heart to be generous, guess what? You won't. Nobody wakes up out of bed and goes, I'm going to be generous. When I'm talking about generous, I'm talking about Bible generosity. I'm talking about the kingdom of God. I want to give you a little promise. I love this promise in the Word in Proverbs 3, verse 9. It says, Honor the Lord with your wealth." [00:30:31] (27 seconds)


"Firstfruits, tithe, and the sacred portion. And what it means, the tithe or the firstfruits, we use the language here, give God your first and your best. This is what a tithe means. And I know a lot of people confuse it. Some people think of the word tithing means giving. No, it means the sacred portion that belongs to God. So if I was a sheep farmer, and I was going to honor the Lord with my firstfruits, then my firstborn sheep goes to God." [00:32:16] (27 seconds)


"Psalm 139, we looked at last week, we started with the big thought that God is omniscient, knows everything. Now, we brought that thought down to practicality that God not only knows everything, he cares for what he knows. He knows what you need before you ask. Remember we said he's numbered the hairs on our head?" [00:35:02] (24 seconds)


"That's a lot of hair. He numbered every one of them for every one of us. That's because he cares. It's not just that he knows and he could win Jeopardy or win the game. It's not that he knows, it's that he knows in knowing a loving heart caring for us as our Father. Now, this next pillar is the big word is omnipresence." [00:36:31] (27 seconds)


"Because God has said, I will never leave you. Never forsake you. Now, the writer of Hebrews pulls this verse out of the context in the Old Testament that Moses has died and young Joshua now is going to lead Israel into the promised land. And God says to Joshua, I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. Now, the writer of Hebrews brings this promise into the New Testament, into available for all. But I want you to get this. Because the negatives that are a positive, it doesn't come out in the English as well. But it's really, it's he said, never, and I mean never. That's the idea here. Will I leave you?" [00:56:25] (58 seconds)


"Live in the mystery, live in the mystery. Cause I have no idea where I was going, but the thought that he'll never let go of me, he'll never drop me. The fear is my salvation. Security is not in how hard I can hold onto his hand. It's how hard he holds onto mine. And when he says, I'm telling you. Never." [01:00:58] (28 seconds)


"When you're at your lowest point, you can't feel God, see God, hear God. You can't, you just know that he's promised. It's not just a presence that he's kind of manifested to you. That's powerful. When he turns the volume up, this is deeper. This is a no. This is a knowing without feeling. This is a knowing without evidence. This is a knowing based on one thing, our God promised." [01:03:19] (32 seconds)


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