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We Need To Trust God Through The Struggles Pt. 2 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hope your day is starting well, and we want to
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  Speaker 1: start it the best way possible by taking some time
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  Speaker 1: with God with the Bible open in front of us
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  Speaker 1: and just listen to what He has to say to us.
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  Speaker 1: So why don't you just pause right now, whatever you're doing,
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  Speaker 1: just focus your mind for a moment and say, God.
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  Speaker 1: If you have something to say to me today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm listening.
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  Speaker 1: I want to read again the same passage I read
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  Speaker 1: yesterday out of the Bible and just draw some more
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  Speaker 1: truths out of it. We're talking about this theme of
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  Speaker 1: trusting God.
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  Speaker 1: It says that on that day when evening had come,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to them, Let us go over to the
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  Speaker 1: other side.
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  Speaker 1: And leaving the multitude, they took him along with them
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  Speaker 1: just as he was in the boat, and other boats
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  Speaker 1: were with him.
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  Speaker 1: And there arose a fierce gale of wind, and the
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  Speaker 1: waves were breaking over the boat so much that the
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  Speaker 1: boat was already filling up.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pretty fierce storm.
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  Speaker 1: And he himself was in the stern in the back
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  Speaker 1: of the boat asleep on the cushion.
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  Speaker 1: And they awoke him and said to him, Teacher, do
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  Speaker 1: you not care that we are perishing? We're dying here.
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  Speaker 1: And being aroused, he rebuked the wind and said to
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  Speaker 1: the sea, Hush, be still.
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  Speaker 1: And the wind died down.
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  Speaker 1: And it became perfectly calm.
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  Speaker 1: And he said to them,
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  Speaker 1: Why are you so timid
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  Speaker 1: How is it
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  Speaker 1: That you have no faith.
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  Speaker 1: And they became very much afraid and said to one another,
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  Speaker 1: Who then is this that even the wind and the
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  Speaker 1: sea obey him.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know something.
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  Speaker 1: The situation that those disciples were in.
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  Speaker 1: They were pretty scary situations. What was going on. These
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  Speaker 1: were seasoned fishermen. They lived their lives on the sea.
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  Speaker 1: And here's a storm that's so fierce that they themselves
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  Speaker 1: are terrified. They feel like they are already dying.
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  Speaker 1: They wake Jesus up in this panic. Don't you care?
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  Speaker 1: We're dying.
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  Speaker 1: The boat's filling up.
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  Speaker 1: The waves were threatening to wash them overboard. It's already dark.
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  Speaker 1: The wind's fierce. They can't even tell which way they're going.
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  Speaker 1: The boat's filling up.
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  Speaker 1: Can you remember a time in your life when things
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  Speaker 1: were falling apart but God brought you through it.
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  Speaker 1: I remember times like that, numerous times in my life
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  Speaker 1: when God has brought me through awful situations.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know?
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  Speaker 1: Having come through those situations with God
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  Speaker 1: It gives me a peace in my heart, an assurance
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  Speaker 1: that he'll help me with whatever I might be facing now,
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  Speaker 1: and the same is true for you.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not trusted God
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  Speaker 1: And you've suffered through those experiences. It might make you fearful.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to tell you
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  Speaker 1: If you will trust God and honour and obey Him
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  Speaker 1: in whatever circumstances you are in, you will find Him
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 1: Faithful someone you can trust.
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  Speaker 1: And then next time something comes along, you'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to look back on this, and it'll be a foundation
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  Speaker 1: for your faith.
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  Speaker 1: You start with the little things in your life and
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  Speaker 1: you trust God in those things. Then when the big
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  Speaker 1: things come, you have built that solid foundation.
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  Speaker 1: What do you need to trust God with today?
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North.