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2.3 | But How, Though? · The Leah Effect

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: Beautiful people.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: Hi, hello, good day, good night, good afternoon, good.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: I am Sharnel, your host, and you are listening to the newest episode of the Leah Effect.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: Here we dissect the narratives of biblical figures and explore how the turning points in their stories relate to us.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_01: Right here and right now.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: But before we dive into the newest figure of the day, let's allow ourselves to think on it.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: The pure, the lovely, the true, the just.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: The way Paul writes in Philippians 4:8.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: Let's take a moment to reflect on the good things.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like really think about it.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's Thursday, if you're listening to this on release day, and it's a beautiful fall day.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: And the thing that I'm thinking on today is this whatever God allows is what He will use.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: Which means that nothing is wasted.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_01: This year, and more specifically over the past three months, I've been viewing Romans 8.28 a little differently.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_01: And we know that all things work together for the good of them that love God and those that are called according to his purpose.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: Now I want you to visualize the working together of all things as a cake.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: Every ingredient is a thing.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: We have flour, butter, sugar, salt, eggs, vanilla.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: And some of these ingredients by themselves are not appetizing in the slightest.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, who is really sitting down to eat a spoonful of flour or drinking raw eggs for fun?
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: Because what are you really training for if you're doing that?
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, each ingredient has a purpose in the process of making that cake.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: The sifting of flour helps create that light fluffy texture, and the beating of eggs helps to incorporate air and give the cake structure.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: The butter, the sugar, the salt, the vanilla, each ingredient has a role to play in the final result.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: And some things that don't seem good on their own can still serve a purpose when they're worked together with something else.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: God can work through the different ingredients of our lives.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: The things we celebrate, the things we struggle with, the things we understand, and even the things that leave us scratching our heads to accomplish his purpose.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: Egg beating seasons are necessary.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_01: Flour sifting seasons are necessary.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: Melting butter seasons are necessary.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: And yes, even a little salt is necessary.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: The process may look different at every stage, but the ingredients are not the finished product.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: You have to let the process do its work.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes when you're in the middle of it, all you can see is the flower being sifted.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: All you can feel is the pressure of the eggs being beaten.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: You haven't even seen the cake yet.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: So you're wondering really what is happening, what's really going on.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: But God sees the bigger picture.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: So as we move through our seasons and stages and steps, we can trust that God is able to work even the difficult things together towards his purpose.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: You're getting closer to the cake, and there's nothing wasted where all things are concerned.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be good.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: If there's anything you've been thinking on, anything good, true, lovely, anything worth praise, please write to us here at the Leah Effectpod at gmail.com so we can think on these things together.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_01: So as you all know or are about to know, this season we are tackling the names of God.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: We started with Yahweh, the one who is, the great I am that I am.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then we moved on to Jehovah Shammah, the Lord is there, and explored the power of presence.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: Now, this episode we're talking about another name, but this one has a little bit of a different twist.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's different, but it's still good.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: This one in particular is one of my favorite names.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: Jehovah Gyra.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's a very popular name of God, one that many of us know, and one that probably has a song attached to it already.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: Which obviously we will not be talking about in the Song of Songs this week because we really have to expand our musical palette.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: Get a little growth going.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: But what makes this episode even more exciting is that this story connected to Jehovah Jira also gives us a connection to another name of God, Elroy.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: And that means we have our very first two part episode.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: We have our very first two part episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_01: Let me explain how this is going to work.
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  SPEAKER_01: This episode, we're exploring Jehovah Jirah, and we're exploring it through the experiences of Abraham, Sarah, and Isaac.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then in part two, we'll turn our attention to Elroy and explore the story through the eyes of Hagar and Ishmael while also speaking about Abraham and Sarah's story from their perspective.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we'll be moving between different moments in Genesis.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's a lot to unpack, and I'm very excited because these stories have so much more to reveal than we might realize at first, or what we already know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are we ready?
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, let's go.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: If you will, please allow me to set the scene.
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  SPEAKER_01: Journey with me to the book of Genesis.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: And you're not even journeying that far.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it it's the first book of the Bible.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_01: So just meet me in Genesis chapter 15.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: God tells Abram, You will have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_01: And Abram, while amazed, is flustered and a little confused because he is old.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: He is of old age.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: His wife, Sarai, is also of old age.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: And Abram is like, I'm old.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: How could I have all these descendants, as you say, if I have no children of my own?
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: I would have to give all that I own to one of my servants and you know prepare him as an heir to me.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, essentially I'd be moving more like a distant uncle or godfather or something of the sort.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: And God says that the servant is not going to be your heir, Abram, but a son of your very own flesh and blood.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: And as many as there are stars in the sky, go ahead, try and count them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So shall your offspring be.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: And Abram believed God's word.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: Now Abram is not a father yet, but he is a husband.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: He is married to the beautiful Sarai.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: Abram turns 99 years old, still no child.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord appears to him and tells him this.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: Walk before me faithfully and be blameless.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_01: Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: As for me, this is my covenant with you.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: You will be the father of many nations.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: No longer will you be called Abram, your name will be Abraham, for I have you a father of many nations.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: I will make you very fruitful, I will make nations out of you, and kings will come from you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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  SPEAKER_01: God also says to Abraham, And as for Sarai, your wife, you will no longer call her Sarai.
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  SPEAKER_01: Her name will be Sarah.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: I will bless her so that she will be a mother of nations.
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  SPEAKER_01: Kings of peoples will come from her.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said, Yes, you did laugh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right there in the tent.
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  SPEAKER_00: The promise comes to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: And sometime later, the scripture says, God tested Abraham.
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  SPEAKER_01: And only God knew this was a test.
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  SPEAKER_01: Abraham was completely oblivious to this.
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  SPEAKER_01: God said to him, Abraham! Abraham answered, Here I am.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: And God says, Take your son, your only son, your son whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Moriah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain, I will show you.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Now, let's pause for the cause here.
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  SPEAKER_01: A sacrifice presented as a burnt offering.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Let's break down what that really means.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shall we?
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: Right, right, right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So in the Old Testament, a burnt offering was a sacrifice presented to God and burned on an altar.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, unlike some offerings, a burnt offering was wholly consumed by fire.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was an act of worship and dedication to God.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's supposed to be Isaac on the altar on the mountain of Moriah.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: Back to the story.
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  SPEAKER_01: Early the next morning, Abraham gets up, packs his donkey, takes his son and two of his servants with him on the journey.
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  SPEAKER_01: He cuts enough wood up for the burnt offering, and they make their way to the mountain God told them about.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, this journey is taking them about three days to get to the mountain.
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  SPEAKER_01: So finally, on the third day, Abraham sees the mountain from a distance and tells his servants, Y'all stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go.
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  SPEAKER_01: We will worship, and then we will come back to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Abraham takes the wood for the burnt offering and he gives it to Isaac to carry, while Abraham carries the fire and the knife.
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  SPEAKER_01: And our observant homeboy Isaac, while walking up the mountain, asks his father a question.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Dad, the wood is here.
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  SPEAKER_01: The fire is here.
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  SPEAKER_01: But where is the lamb for the sacrifice?
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  SPEAKER_01: For the burnt offering?
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  SPEAKER_01: Abraham answers, My son, God himself will provide the sacrifice for the burnt offering.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: Now, when they arrive to the place God spoke about, Abraham builds an altar and places the wood on top of the altar.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Now there is no mention of rope being one of the materials that was brought with them on the journey, but somehow we find Isaac tied up and laid across the altar.
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  SPEAKER_01: Abraham then grabs his knife, raises his hand high up in the air, winding up to strike down his son with some power.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: And as soon as he's about to take his son out, the angel of the Lord shouts his name, Abraham! Abraham! And Abraham's like, Here I am, it's me.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: The angel was like, Do not put a hand on that boy, do not do anything to him.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: Now I know that you fear God because you have not withheld your only son from me.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: Now Abraham looks up and finds a ram in the thicket.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: This is where I love being Jamaican, because I've only heard ram in the thicket for most of my life.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: I heard ram in the bush later on in my days, but like it's always been a ram in a thicket.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: Make me Jamaican in every lifetime, Lord, please.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anywho, he gets the ram and uses the ram as a sacrifice for the burnt offering instead of baby boy Isaac.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: Abraham then calls the place Jehovah Jirah, which means the Lord will provide.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your descendants will take possession of their enemies' cities, and through your offspring, all nations on earth will be blessed because you have obeyed me.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the origin of Jehovah Gyrah.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be honest with y'all.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: What exactly is the gyra effect?
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not about to hit you with the TikTok formula of here are five ways to get the provision of the Lord in your life in 72 hours.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: Details in the caption below.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do that.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: I won't do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Provision looks different for everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: And different seasons call for different provisions.
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  SPEAKER_01: What I can do is provide us with time to reflect on the name Jehovah Jirah.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord will provide.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: What we learn from this name is that the Lord is not a passive observer in the affairs of his children.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: He sees our needs, knows the way ahead, and is able to provide for us in ways we may not anticipate.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: And notice where Abraham encountered provision on the mountain looking up.
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  SPEAKER_01: God provided what was needed in that moment.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: So the gyra effect invites us to reflect on this.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: Can we trust the heart of the provider even when we cannot predict the process of provision?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_01: Do we understand the character of Jyra enough to trust his heart towards us when we cannot dictate how his hand works for us?
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: Jira, the one who knows the end from the beginning, the one who is sure of what he is doing.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: Even when our faith is operating on a contingency plan sometimes.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at Elijah in 1 Kings 17.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he tells King Ahab, listen, it's not gonna rain for three years.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: There's gonna be a severe drought.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: And God tells him to hide by the Kerith Ravine where he will drink from the brook and receive food from ravens.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Elijah goes straight there and obeys, and the ravens bring him bread and meat in the morning and in the evening.
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  SPEAKER_01: Food coming from ravens, provision coming from an unexpected place.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then when the brook dried up, God did not stop providing.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: He sent Elijah to a widow in Zarephath, where God sustained her household through a handful of flour and a little bit of oil.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: And a dried-up brook is not proof that the provider has failed.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: The provision changed, but God continued to sustain Elijah.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: Think of the Psalm 23.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: David writes, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: He makes me to lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside the still waters, he restores my soul.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Now, think about a sheep trying to drink from rushing turbulent water.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: But imagine the shepherd leading the sheep away from the water it can see towards a place where it can drink and rest.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: If the sheep doesn't trust the shepherd, it might think it's being deprived.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: But the shepherd sees what the sheep cannot.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: The sheep sees the water, but the shepherd knows the way.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: And that same fear and desperation can cause us to make decisions without trusting the one who orders our steps.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: The one who leads us knows what we need along the way.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, my mind runs back to the children of Israel in the wilderness.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Exodus.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: And God provides manna.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's like a bread like wafer that appears daily for the children of Israel to eat.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: And manna is translation for the phrase, what is this?
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's essentially what manna is.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: Manna is, yo, what is this?
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: And the same manna, God instructed them to gather what they needed for each day.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: It was a double portion before the Sabbath.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, when the season came for them to eat the produce of the land, the manna ended.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: There was a season for the manna.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then there was a season for different provision.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: The seasons changed.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: But the God who provided did not.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: And this is why it is essential to carry trust in the one who is providing and believing in the hand in the one who provides.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: If we trust in the one who gives good things, who hears our prayers and sees us, we must also learn to trust him in the seasons of manna, in the seasons of turbulent waters.
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  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, we take manna, otherwise, we take matters into our own hands and try to produce an Ishmael when Isaac was the one who was promised.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: But we'll get into Ishmael next episode.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: Trusting the shepherd challenges us not to settle.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, or make decisions out of desperation.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: It transforms our minds and challenges the thought that says, if this doesn't happen now, it'll never happen.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: This seems like the most opportune time, or at least we think it's the most opportune time.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we try to strike while the iron is hot.
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  SPEAKER_01: But yet we have no discernment.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yet we have no wisdom.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: We're moving out of anxiety.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: We're moving out of desperation.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: We're moving out of anticipation of a promise without being processed to steward the promise well.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like let's really take a moment and consider whether we're ready for the things that we're praying for.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: You can receive a good thing and still need to grow, and still need to process, and still need to become and develop in order to be one who stewards that prayer well.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes we're so focused on getting the blessing that we haven't even really considered the responsibility that comes with it.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: Because when you start making decisions out of desperation, you eventually have to live with those decisions.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm talking to you, Esau.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, bro, I'll trade you my birthright for a bowl of stew because I'm about to die.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, Abram and Sarai.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: God promised descendants, but they tried to bring the promise before it was time.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_01: So they made their own arrangement with Hagar, and now Sarai is resenting Hagar and Ishmael and kicks him out of the house.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: But again, that's next episode.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: God can show you the promise.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: God can show you what the cake looks like.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: God can show you the good thing, but He doesn't show you all the things that bring you to the good thing.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: We love the provision, we love the promise, but we want to skip the process and we hate the process.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: And we think that the process to get to the provision is punishment.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: But that's where we gather wisdom and strengthen our discernment so we can see what is really from God and not us operating out of fear and anxiety and trying to get the thing while we think we can manage it or handle it.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: The undergoing of the process is the protection of the plan.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: While we're here praying fervently for a thing, hoping that we get it right here, right now, without considering whether we're really even ready to steward it.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: If I can offer any more advice, because I feel like I've been speaking, you know, like as an advisor, but if I'm giving any more advice, I would say don't just pray for the promise.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: Pray for you to be ready for the promise.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: Don't like God get the promise ready for me, but get me ready for the promise too, you know.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: Protect the plan that you have for me to reach provision.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Because the Lord is always going to provide, like, he didn't stop providing.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all think he started providing when the ram was in the ticket?
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: He started providing when Isaac was born.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: He's been providing throughout this whole entire story.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: God provided the call to Abram, God provided the promise and showed him the vision.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: God provided him the name that will make him worthy of the calling that he gave him.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: And then on the mountain, all Abraham had to do was look up and saw the provision.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: And if we don't see Jira clearly enough, we reduced him to the tangible things that he's given us, to the most obvious things, to the glaring and blatant things, the answered prayers that we know about, the yeses, the access, the open doors.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: But the provider is not defined only by what he puts in our hands or is makes obvious within our sight line.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: Jira is the one who lacks nothing.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Psalmist says, I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, I'm speaking in KJV.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know how I do.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 24:1 says, The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: He is not limited by what we can see.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: All of creation belongs to him.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: From him are all things.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: To him are all things.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: Through him are all things.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: The one who lacks nothing sees us in our need.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: And he sees to it on our behalf.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: That's why our trust cannot rest solely in what our own eyes see and what our own eyes perceive and what we feel like we can control with our own will and with our own hands.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: All of this is about trust.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: If I don't trust the one who provides for me, I take matters into my own hands and squander what I've been given.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: Don't that sound familiar, prodigal son?
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're lacking in trust, if you're lacking in belief, if you're lacking in faith, you'll be so depleted of discernment because you're moving in desperation now.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want the promise so bad that you'll idolize the gift, yet you'll doubt the giver who is giving the gift.
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  SPEAKER_01: Making demands of I want what I want, when I want it, and how I want it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're not even ready to really manage the provision that is in our midst or that we're praying for.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that we can be intact to see the promise come to fruition that He has for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, the one who sees is the one who provides.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's Jyra.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gyra is the one who sees what we have and he sees what we lack, he sees the road ahead, but we can't see around the bend.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, like that is who Jyra is.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is the one who cannot deny himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: That one, that gyra, that Jehovah Jyra is strategic on your behalf.
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  SPEAKER_01: The one who lacks nothing, who has everything, he will always have in abundance and surplus, considers you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I don't want us to leave this episode with the only understanding of gyra being about financial gain or or money or tangible things.
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  SPEAKER_01: It goes so much deeper than that.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, where wherever life takes us, trust the one who sees you, who sees to you, who leads you and is able to sustain you.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is the gyra effect.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Lord, I pray that you open our eyes to see you as gyra.
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  SPEAKER_01: The one who sees and provides for our needs.
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  SPEAKER_01: As we look to you, the author and the finisher of our faith, help us to trust your character even when we cannot see what lies ahead.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your word reminds us that you will supply all of our needs according to your riches and glory through Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: So give us the grace just to trust you more.
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  SPEAKER_01: To trust you in the waiting, to trust you in the process.
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  SPEAKER_01: Strengthen our hearts to discern the steps you are calling us to take.
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  SPEAKER_01: Steady our spirits and keep us from moving out of impatience and anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_01: When truly what we need to do is seek your wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Prepare us to steward the things we are asking you for.
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  SPEAKER_01: And help us not to idolize the gift while neglecting the gift.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: As we continue building the soundtrack for this season, we are back with another song to add to the song of songs.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this week's song of songs is Provider by Micah Stanley.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a song that's simple in its lyrics, but packed with meaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you all the glory, I'll give you all the praise because you never let me down.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when you reflect on what the Lord has provided, when I reflect on what the Lord has provided, I can see how his provision has met me in the moments I needed it most.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'll be honest, sometimes it did not look the way I expected it to, and it did not look like the way I wanted it to, and I had to trust him through it, so then when I got to it, I was at peace with the provision.
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  SPEAKER_01: But looking back, I can recognize his care and his faithfulness because again, the provider sees what we cannot see, he knows what we need, even when we're still trying to figure it out for ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's why we can learn to trust his heart even when we don't understand his hand.
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  SPEAKER_01: So take a listen to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you have a song suggestion, be sure to write us at the Leah Effectpod at gmail.com so we can continue building this playlist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because by the end of the season, we're gonna have a couple of bangers on here, and I'm really excited to play it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, folks, that is my time for this episode of the Leah Effect.
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  SPEAKER_01: And don't forget, this is only part one.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is much more to this story, so join us next time for part two.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want to share the good and lovely, pure things you've been thinking on, and let us know which songs we should add to the Names of God playlist.
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  SPEAKER_01: I cannot wait to hear from you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Charnel.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the Leah Effect.
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  SPEAKER_01: And always remember, there's always more to the story, and the effects are truly endless.
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