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God on the Go by AllMomDoes - Brave Enough: Brave Afraid · Shine FM

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  Speaker 1: Purposely. Your life. God's purpose. Listen at Purposely.com. I absolutely froze.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't walk forward. I couldn't go backward. I was
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  Speaker 1: completely stuck where I was standing. And where I was
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  Speaker 1: standing was right at a little bridge. And I could
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  Speaker 1: see the water below me rushing past between the slats
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  Speaker 1: of that little bridge. And so I just couldn't move.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Julie Lyles-Karr. I am the host of
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  Speaker 1: Got On The Go, part of the Purposely Podcast Network,
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  Speaker 1: and we are honored to go with you as you
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  Speaker 1: are in that school pickup line, as you are on
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  Speaker 1: your way to whatever practice you've got. We wanna help
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  Speaker 1: you make the minutes matter with the conversations that matter
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  Speaker 1: the very most. And when I think back to that
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  Speaker 1: moment where I was so frozen, I was scared. I
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  Speaker 1: was really scared. My parents were on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of this little bridge and they were saying, come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on, you've got to get over here. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: let's go. And I wanted to obey, but I was
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  Speaker 1: just terrified. I didn't know if that bridge was going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to hold me. I was worried that
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  Speaker 1: maybe my foot might go between one of those slats.
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  Speaker 1: And as I look back, it's so funny because it
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  Speaker 1: was this little bridge and it was perfectly safe, but boy,
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  Speaker 1: it did not feel that way. We're starting out on
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  Speaker 1: a new series where we're going to talk about brave enough,
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  Speaker 1: what it means to have courage in your life. What
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  Speaker 1: is brave enough? And we see so many examples in
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  Speaker 1: God's word of people who would have told you that
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  Speaker 1: they were scared, that they were afraid to cross over
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  Speaker 1: into something, but all they needed was simply to be
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  Speaker 1: brave enough to take the next step. I love this
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  Speaker 1: little fact. You know how I like my words, my
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  Speaker 1: fancy words. The word courage, which is often a word
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  Speaker 1: we use to describe someone being brave enough to do something,
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  Speaker 1: to have courage. The first part of that word comes
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  Speaker 1: from a Latin word, cor, and that means heart. So
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  Speaker 1: to be courageous means that you're really acting from the
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  Speaker 1: heart because that's where your feelings are and where you're
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  Speaker 1: making decisions and that you also are deciding what you
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  Speaker 1: will do, even if you're scared. And so to have
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  Speaker 1: courage means that it comes from the heart. There were
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  Speaker 1: plenty of people all across scripture who knew exactly how
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  Speaker 1: you and I feel when we feel stuck, where we
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  Speaker 1: want to do the right thing, or we want to
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  Speaker 1: try the thing that we feel like God is leading
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  Speaker 1: us to do, but we're just so scared to take
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  Speaker 1: the next step. There was a man in the book
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  Speaker 1: of Judges, and his name was Gideon. Now, what I
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  Speaker 1: love is that God calls him a mighty warrior, but
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't really acting like he was all that mighty.
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  Speaker 1: He was actually acting very scared because there was an
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  Speaker 1: enemy who was in his land. And that enemy would
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  Speaker 1: come along and just be terrible to the people in
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  Speaker 1: the land. They would take their food. They would take
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  Speaker 1: all the things that they needed to live. And so
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  Speaker 1: Gideon was hiding. He was working with his wheat crop,
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  Speaker 1: but he was hiding to take care of it where
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  Speaker 1: the enemy couldn't see him. And that's where God sent
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  Speaker 1: an angel to encounter him. and said, Gideon, you are
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  Speaker 1: a mighty warrior. Now, I have to tell you, Gideon,
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  Speaker 1: I think, felt a lot like I did standing in
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  Speaker 1: front of that little rickety bridge thinking, God, don't you
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  Speaker 1: see what's going on here? Don't you see this huge
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  Speaker 1: enemy that's around me? Why on earth would I take
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  Speaker 1: a step out and do what you're asking? Because part
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  Speaker 1: of what God wanted Gideon to do was to be
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  Speaker 1: brave enough to listen to God and and to go
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  Speaker 1: confront the enemy who was being so terrible to Gideon's people. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Gideon was doing really, in some ways, what was a
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  Speaker 1: smart thing. He was trying to avoid getting into a
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  Speaker 1: fight with these terrible people. But God was asking him
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  Speaker 1: to do something more. And here's the thing. God didn't
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  Speaker 1: give Gideon all the steps right at the beginning. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell him exactly how this was going to be accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: He just needed Gideon to be brave enough to trust God,
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  Speaker 1: and to take the next step. Joshua 1.9 says, And
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  Speaker 1: that's how it turned out for Gideon. The way that
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  Speaker 1: God had him go into battle, the way that God
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  Speaker 1: helped him win that battle was was so different, was
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  Speaker 1: so creative than anything that Gideon would have come up
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  Speaker 1: with on his own. And that's the beauty of being
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  Speaker 1: brave enough, is that God will show up in the details.
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  Speaker 1: God will show up with a better plan. But you
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  Speaker 1: and I, we just need to take that first step.
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  Speaker 1: your student at georgefox.edu. And I'll see you next time
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  Speaker 1: as we continue to talk about being brave enough on
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  Speaker 1: God on the Go.