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When Faith Outruns Understanding: Trusting God in Chaotic Times · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  How do we trust God even when we don't understand what's happening?
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  Have Faith, Let It Begin starts right now.
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  This is ariel santana can you believe i'm seven years old already i'm old enough
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  now to introduce my dad ladies and gentlemen your host my dad angel santana.
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  Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Have Faith, Let It Begin.
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  I appreciate all your support, your prayers, and your concerns throughout this
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  whole weekend process. It was a crazy weekend, and it just keeps getting crazier
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  and crazier this whole week.
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  month we're going to change things up folks we hope that you are.
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  How do i start this we hope that you are fine we hope that you are well we hope that you are,
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  one with our heavenly father god knows that many of us have been struggling,
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  God knows that many of us can't understand what's happening in the world.
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  You know, you turn on one channel and you hear people already arguing over who's,
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  the best candidate for the next campaign or whether you belong to a party or not.
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  And you reach over and you go to another channel and somebody has lost their
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  life or you reach over to another channel and things are happening overseas.
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  You reach over to another channel.
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  Of the war continues, and we just can't understand why this is happening.
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  Many of us will say, well, the Bible has been alluding to this.
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  You know, the Bible has been describing that we're heading into difficult times, end of times.
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  Here's what I always think. Even when we are thinking the negative,
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  because we do, we're human. We have to find the positive and the negative.
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  We have to find where we fit, where we belong, where we want our views and our
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  way of thinking and our way of how we act toward each other through the eyes
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  and the heart of our heavenly father.
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  You know, Jesus always said, we are the light of the world. Jesus always believes
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  that we should love each other as we love ourselves, love one another,
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  I should say, as we love ourselves, love our neighbors.
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  And for most of us, I believe we try our best.
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  For some of us, it comes easy. And for some of us, it comes difficult.
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  I've been struggling myself recently, trying to figure out how to forgive those
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  that have really, really hurt me and how recent events or recent,
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  viewings of either songs or movies have triggered me to think about the days
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  when people just purposely hurt me to try to bring me down.
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  And then I think about all the good that we're doing here on this podcast,
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  all the good that I'm doing as
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  a future minister, as a person who's trying their best to see it through.
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  I say to myself, where do I go? What do I do? And how do I allow Jesus to help me?
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  So I leave with this. We can't understand, we can't predict,
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  and we cannot assume we know what God is doing.
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  But what we can do is rely on his words and his ability to say, you know what?
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  I am going to provide you with love.
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  I'm going to provide you with guidance, with wisdom, with compassion.
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  And I am going to be that loving God who says, I will never leave your side.
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  I believe in Jesus. I believe in all that he has for us.
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  And I certainly believe that his intentions are good and never evil.
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  Think about that today as you go about your day. And remember that Jesus loves
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  you, that Jesus believes in you, and Jesus will never leave your side.
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  So may God be with you. May he shine his light upon you and grant each and every
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  single one of you peace on earth.
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  And never forget, have faith.