Latest / Join With Me Podcast / Episode 10 - What is Faith...in God?
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- Join with Me Ministries Podcast Episode 10: We are honored that you have chosen to listen to this podcast. Join with me, where the information will be biblical, filled with joy, and very helpful. Stay tuned to the end where you will learn how to communicate with Rayburn and Donna about today's episode. Hi, I'm Rayburn Hare, and this is Join with Me Podcast. Hey, by the way, I've had a couple of people ask me, you know, watching the podcast. You can watch it on YouTube video. YouTube go there. I I've look, I found that not everybody goes to Apple or Spotify or even knows where it is. But most everybody knows where YouTube is. Why? Because everything you don't know what to do, you go to YouTube. I was Googling YouTube just this past week trying to figure out how to drop my belly mower from my my little John Deere tractor, and I can't figure it out. So I go to YouTube. They tell you exactly. I've got 13 different ways. Same thing, how to do it. So everybody knows YouTube. Go to YouTube, put in join with me podcast. It's there. I've seen it and several people have told me they've watched it there. Okay, thank you for. But anyway, these backgrounds, I was tells where I was head on this. they're not my backgrounds. I great thing about these these programs is I could choose variety of one. I now probably will at different times. I like this one. So you know, books and bookcase and it has one that has a penthouse and Donna said, let's let's don't use that 'cause I don't want anybody think we're living in this penthouse. Whatever, but nice background. But anyway, thank you. We're having fun. stay with us. Please stay with us. Please like. Please subscribe. Please do all those things. Tell your friends. I was at I was at playing pickleball d the other morning and one of my friends said, Hey Raven, I've listened to four episodes and I was on the edge of my seat, couldn't wait to listen to the next one. And then several people around said, listen to what? And all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom. So it amazing. Thank you, Father. But anyway, we're talking about faith. Last episode, I said, what is faith? And and and trying to define it. And I and I certainly, you know, went to the Bible because the the Bible clearly says in Hebrews chapter 11, 1. It's very clear, faith is. the assurance of things hoped for. Okay, and we talked about that. Just a real little recap is you hope for things. I like to call that outcomes. So you you have a test done, a medical test, and you want to have a favorable outcome. So you hope for an outcome. And and and I so do I. So I'm not any By any means saying that's wrong. We always hope for a certain thing to happen. That can be good things too. I mean, you I I'm making jokes here, but I mean some of you might buy a lottery ticket and you hope that wins. Anyway, you can have favorable results that you want. So my point was is if we're talking about faith and we're saying That your your faith and trust is in an outcome that you desire, what happens if you don't get the outcome? That would either be good or bad. What happens to your faith? W what was wrong with your faith? Well, I I guess here's where I'm headed. What I choose is to desire an outcome. That's natural. I always desire certain outcomes. When Duke plays basketball, I desire that they win. When the Chiefs play football, I desire they win. And both of them win a lot, so thank you. And I don't always have, but thank you for that. But my point is I don't trust in an outcome. I choose to trust in a person. Now w what I mean by that? Well Let me try to explain it. Remember, remember I said this, another full disclosure. I'm not trying to convert you. I'm not trying to win you over, convince you of anything. I'm just trying to say, hey, here's how what I believe and how I choose the best I can to live. What works for you? Cause I choose to believe in God. And I believe in His Son, Jesus Christ. I'm not trying to be, you know, so theological, but God, His Son Jesus Christ that came into the world. You know, you I'm sure you are certainly aware that and to this is 2026, October of 2026, and we would, if we were real technical, we'd say AD. What does that mean? After death, after the death of Jesus Christ, because time before that was BC. So everything is before Christ. And then after his death. Okay, so I I'm referring to God, his son, Jesus Christ. So I I choose as a as opposed to a favorable outcome is what I want. But if I don't get that outcome, then where does my faith? What happens? Well, if it's based on a person, as mine is, I trust the person that all outcomes. Everything that affects my life is controlled by God. Now, maybe you don't believe that. Maybe you think that, well, I think that God does is this, is that. Maybe you just think, man, she's so lucky. He's lucky. Was born into this. He was born that. Everything he touches turns to this and 'cause he's so lucky. Well, I I I don't believe in luck. I think that everything, all circumstances are abs absolutely controlled by God. And I think he's a sovereign God, which means that he's controlled it absolute, total, and complete. So you say, well, how does that work, Raven? Because bad things happen. Does God allow bad things to happen to even good people? Join with Me Podcast is thrilled to have our first sponsor, Hydro Poolin and Spa, located in Blue Springs, Missouri. They're on Seven Highway, located about on the I-70 eastbound exit ramp. But my friends at Hydro Pool and Spa have an amazing October special. For the month of October, if you'll call them, they have a pool closing special that's amazing. Now for eleven years, I clo opened and closed a pool, so I know a little bit about that. I never did it myself. Why? 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So please call my friends at Hydro Pool and Spa at 816-875-7171. Get it scheduled. Get in on this deal. It's only for October. October 1st through October 31st. So please call them. Thank you. And tell them that you heard about it on the Join With Me podcast. And that will be an amazing opportunity for you. Once again, thank you. Well, I'm not gonna try to go so deep into that total question, but it does become is is on how do you view life? How do you view this world? Your world view, so to speak. I've done some college work and I've you know, done some graduate level work and and I've had to define what my life view, what my worldview I should say is. And when you really get into that, you've got to somehow come to a conclusion of what you believe and why you believe it. For me, I I don't want to say it's easy. I just say I start with God. That's where I start. And I believe that when God is in control, then He either causes or allows things to happen to everyone. Now I'm gonna say that I'm gonna call myself a child of God. I'm a believer in Jesus Christ. I follow him best I can, and that's my life's desire. And I trust him. That's the that's where I'm headed. I've my faith and my trust is in him. Not an outcome. Now you say, well, when the outcome's bad, do you still trust him? Well, I do. I I I mean, I'm not saying I don't want you to misunderstand. I I I don't have I've I'm very blessed in the sense I've not had tragic things happen in my life. I've I've had things go bad, not work out. I've made business, bad business choices, bad business decisions. I've I've Lost, I've been on the losing side, I've been on the winning side of things, of business issues, and on and on and on. But I believe that God allows or causes things to happen in everyone's life. Now, there's another scripture I shared, Hebrews 11:1, that defined faith. This would be a verse that I would say helps me believe. in what I what I'm saying. There is a verse found in in Romans chapter eight, and it's verse twenty-eight, and here's what it says. And we know, so I would say I know, and I know that God causes all things to work together for good to them that love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose. Now you say what? How in the world does something really bad work out for good? Well, listen, I'll be the first to tell you that you don't always know. You don't always see. You can't see. Remember, I trust in a sovereign God that has total control of all the pieces of my life, yours too. That's a many, many pieces that start before you're born. That's the amazing part of it. Scripture teaches that. I'm not here to teach that necessarily. I just this what I believe. So if I trust that and believe that, that God has my best interest and good at heart, then then I the outcome I still want the favorable outcome. But if it's not the outcome that I choose, my faith is in him. That it's right, that it will work out. Then don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying you always, you know, thank you, Father, that this happened and no, that's not even remotely true. actually have maybe have some people coming on that could give evidence of that. You by the way, if you want to read through, go back to that verse I defined that defines faith in Hebrews 11, if you read through that chapter, you see all kinds of examples of things, people in the Bible that had faith enacted and the outcomes. Some outcomes as you'll read are not good. Here's my point. Try to just try to grab hold of what I'm saying. I believe in a God that controls the outcome. And I believe that He has the ability, the power to make everything work together for good. To those who are called, it says, and I believe I'm I believe I'm a called, chosen person that I'm his he belong to him. And that I'm my purpose is to seek and follow him. So if I do that, then the outcome, sure, I want good outcomes. But if it's not a good outcome, my my faith is in him. I hope y if if that makes sense. Listen, if it doesn't, please, you know, Donna's going to give you, you know, my contact information. Please reach out to me. Let's talk about it. Remember, I always say I don't have all the answers, I just know who does. And I believe that's God. I believe that's the Bible. But hey, look, I'm not remember, I'm not preaching. I'm not trying to convert. I'm not I'm just trying to say, here's what I believe, and here's why I believe it. So as we go through the The faith section. I'm gonna try to bring people on that can give evidence of that. I will try even to give evidence of in my own life. So I'm not here to just all teach the Bible. That's not what I'm gonna do, I promise you. So hang on, we're gonna have fun. I hope this has been at least if you're not a a follower of Christ, if you're not a churchgoer, if you're not so hopefully maybe this is just giving you some. Food for thought, enough to say, well, well, I'm I'm curious, or I'm gonna think about it, or okay, good. and if you are a follower, I hope you you know just try to encourage and say, hey, look, to me, it's the best way to live. Trusting and a person. So anyway, thank you. Thank you for listening. Stay tuned. we've got more things coming. I'm gonna yes have things planned and that I think will be fun and interesting and and I trust you'll stay with us and keep listening and like and subscribe, tell your friends. Those are always important. Thank you for supporting our sponsor. Hydro Pool and Spa I've got several people that have been in, got for their pool closing. People looking at product and it's so good and I've got another sponsor coming. Gotta work, I'm gonna work on that soon so I can get that available, more service that I think's gonna help you. It's all trying to help. So thank you. Thank you, thank you. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. This is Rayburn Hair, and this is Join With Me podcast. We trust you enjoyed today's sharing from the heart. If you want to learn more, Please feel free to contact us at Rayburnhair at gmail.com. Or you can go to our website, joinwithme.life. Thank you for listening. Be sure to share with a friend and have a blessed day on purpose.