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Episode 23: Can God be Trusted? · Coaching For Life

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_04: The Coaching for Life Podcast with Monty Williams and Will Davis.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Coaching for Life Podcast with Monty Williams and Will Davis, a conversation that we pray encourages you to pursue the Christ center life.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: And it's always a great day to spend time with my good friend and my co-host, Monty Williams.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: And today, Monty, I'm wearing my new Baylor shirt in honor of your son Elijah, who made his Baylor basketball home debut on Monday night.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: And that must have been just a very special time for you as his father and his coach.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it was it was so cool to be there with him.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: And um we actually got there before he had to go to the gym.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we got to spend some time with him, and and um it was an amazing day um because that morning I was just in my study time and just thinking about like all God had done and and that we were gonna get to enjoy this cool day with him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, he plays in the game and he's out there doing what he does, but I'm probably more um impacted by Lisa sitting there crying, his sister Faith is sitting there crying, Micah's sitting there cheering for his brother, and it just reminded me like all that God has done.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um not just the last ten years since Elijah's mother, my first wife Ingrid, went on to be with the Lord, but like our whole lives.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like we can rest in the fact that God has us.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: And that was what I felt.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: I felt like this overwhelming peace about where he was, uh the man that he is under and Scott Drew.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it was expressed in in the kids and the way that they responded.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: And then that morning I was in my devo just sitting there crying, you know, just grateful but also like overwhelmed that he was in that position.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then he played, yeah, you know, he played so well.
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  SPEAKER_01: He he hasn't had that crazy Elijah game yet, but he God is just allowing him to show bits and pieces of who he is as a player, but more than that, just as a as a as a person.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, when he got introduced, he he high-fived all his teammates, then he went over and shook the coach's hands, and then he went and shook the referees.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: And I was just like, what like that's good.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: God has done something.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't teach him that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've never told him to do that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: And that's something that he's learned since he's been with Coach Drew and that staff and those players, and so it was cool.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was and it was, you know, I'm getting text messages from you, and you know, so many people are like, look at Elijah.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at my phone, I'm watching the game, looking at my phone.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was awesome to be able to go do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got back in at to San Antonio Spring Branch about 2 15, and you know, Lisa got up early, took Micah to school.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we got up the next day, we were all hammered.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh then we were just tired.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what a blessing it was to see him in that position.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, such a sweet family moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we had fun watching it in our living room, and and we're excited to see just what God is gonna do in and through Elijah as a man of God and as a player uh this season for Baylor.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: Well, today we want to try and answer the question can God be trusted?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think it's an appropriate question the day after our election day here in the United States, because the question that we ask wherever we are voting, anywhere in the world, is can I trust this person that I'm voting for?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, we can say today, regardless of who is placed in positions of government and authority, that we serve a God in Jesus, who is seated on his throne in heaven, and he is worthy of all of our trusts today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, where do we want to begin as we build this case that our God is trustworthy?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, we always, this is our mandate.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's been the foundation of our podcast, it's been the foundation of every meeting you and I have had at different places to eat around San Antonio.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna start with the word.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Psalm 91, too says, I will say to the Lord, my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust that verse is so meaningful for me because I remember being downstairs and and watching Ingrid take the girls upstairs and making all three of my daughters memorize Psalm 91.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so that one is uh major for me in terms of its impact, but also its its promise that God is our refuge and he can be trusted.
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  SPEAKER_01: Deuteronomy 7 9 says, Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commands to a thousand generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: Proverbs 3 and 5, uh, one of my anchors, it says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um that's the one for me that's like simple, yet I make it so difficult.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the two words that stand out for me are is lean not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and that's where I tend to get myself in trouble.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh when God says to trust, he means to trust him, not what we think about a situation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh we we don't we should not allow circumstances to sway our trust.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in my experience, I get myself into a pickle, uh sometimes trouble with the mental gymnastics that take place in my head when a certain thing pops up, and I allow those gymnastics to run my reasoning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um there are times where I start to plot what I should do without praying, without that innate or should be an innate feeling inside of us that we should trust the Lord no matter what our minds or our our emotions tend to want us to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um what I've learned in my walk in this journey that God typically answers in three ways it's either yes, no, or wait.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's in the waiting um that I've found that I I get myself in a little bit of trouble.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what I what I know to be true is all three answers are good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because God is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's what I have to remind myself when I'm going through something.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like God is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think that's just become a cliche for church folk.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like we like to say God is good all the time, and all the time God is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, we just say it.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's like when I was growing up, it was like the best part of waking up is olders in your cup.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like you all of us know that.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: Well, if you if you don't have any meaning behind that, yeah, you forget coffee.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: You just think of the term.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: God is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like full stop.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like we could just sit and marinate on that for a long, long time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm not sure we we spend enough time thinking about the goodness of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like you just talked about, these elections.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like at the end of the day, no matter which way the election goes, we have to remind ourselves that God can be trusted.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that He is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I I know this to be true.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, we've we've been through something that most people don't go through, some people have.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I I sat there in a hospital room and I watched and felt um the life of Ingrid go out of her, and she passed from this life into the next.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when you go through something like that, it's so easy to get swayed in that thought because I know that God is capable of doing anything.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: But in this particular situation, he chose not to answer my prayer in the way that I wanted him to.
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  SPEAKER_01: But when you know that God is good, you know that he did not uh take Ingrid, he received her.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's a totally different perspective.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you know that he's good, the reception of Ingrid in heaven is the best thing for her.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it's the best thing for all of us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I know um where she is, and I know that it's good.
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  SPEAKER_01: My job is to trust and wait, which is is not always easy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and to be straight.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the waiting, not just in that situation, but many times in my walk, I've wavered in my trust.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've wavered in my perspective on the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in that wavering, I think it's really cool for us as believers to know that God can handle the handle the wavering.
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  SPEAKER_01: He can handle when we quit on him.
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  SPEAKER_01: He never quits on us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, Lamentations 3 talks about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like he's faithful.
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  SPEAKER_01: His mercies are new every morning, and he's and he's great is his faithfulness.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when we look at um Isaiah 40, 31, the Bible says, Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength.
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  SPEAKER_01: They will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can sit here and say that is true.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh God has blessed uh me and my family in the waiting, in the wavering, in the lack of trust, in the quitting.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has blessed me and my family with a life that I didn't see.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have an unreal wife.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like if you met Lisa, you just, you know, you're like, what is she doing with him?
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, you just most people probably think that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I think about my my son Caden.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh he's my stepson, but he's my son.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I have another son.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have a family in the Clivers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Miss Ruthie and Mr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ron.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like they're just they're unreal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they're just what my kids who lost their mom needed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, another brother who loves sports, plays football, loves our family, a mom who's unbelievably loving and kind, and she's the definition of nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, it drives me nuts.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's so nice all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, Lisa, like, now's the time to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: And she just she'll smile and be and she'll look at me and just keep it moving.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, that's who she is.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and then the Clivers, all of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: They've been a blessing that I did not see, and I certainly didn't see it when I was in that that room when Ingrid went on to be with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just thought to myself, like, what am I going to do now?
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have five kids, and I have no idea how to how to do this on my own.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in those moments when I wasn't thinking about can God be trusted, he was faithful.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that has taught me, especially in those moments when I'm watching Elijah, and you're concerned about, you know, what's his future going to look like, what's Micah gonna do?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like God can be trusted.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a wonderful reminder, you know, that God is so faithful to provide for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that takes the form of wonderful wives and and families, and he also renews our strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: For for those that are listening and you're feeling weary, he is worthy of our trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is so good no matter what.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he is with us in every situation, and he never changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: He always answers us.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you just said, that answer could be yes, it could be no, it could be wait or not yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God is trustworthy because his word and his character can be trusted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we also see evidence of his trustworthy in our own lives, in our testimonies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because number one, we have witnessed his faithfulness in our past.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can testify that God has been faithful to save us and protect us and provide for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, many times we read in the Old Testament those words, remember.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember what the Lord has done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 77, I remember the deeds of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the name of the Lord is synonymous with his trustworthiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 910, and those who know your name put their trust in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: For you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again, number one, we remember his faithfulness in our past, and then two, we trust him for today as we rest in his presence and his peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 56, 4, in God whose word I praise, in God I trust, I shall not be afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: What can flesh do to me?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then Psalm 20, verse 7, some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we must ultimately put our trust, not in human leaders or politicians, but we put our trust in God alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then point number three, we can trust him and we can be assured of his promises for our tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 30, verse 5.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every word of God proves true.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: As sinful, broken people, we can be so wishy-washy and we can change our minds like the changing of the tides.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we have a God who never changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's a reminder, uh, this particular verse.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says, God is not a man that he would lie, nor a son of man that he would change his mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like we cannot ever, and I think we tend to do it, equate God with any version of man, although we're created in the image of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's not our buddy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's not the dude down the street that you should be comparing yourself to.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's emotions um are way above anything that we could imagine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I wouldn't even say he's he's not, he doesn't have emotions.
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  SPEAKER_01: If if you look at it from a human perspective, his emotion for us is he loves us.
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  SPEAKER_01: People have taken uh the verse that you know he's a jealous God and and and pretty much taken that word and used it from a human perspective.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've not looked at it from a godly perspective.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, he loves us.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what his jealousy is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like he does not want us to fall prey to the ways of this world.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in a historical sense, he doesn't want his chosen people to start acting like the ones around them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he's jealous for us in that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so this uh verse reminds us that like he's not he's not your buddy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's not the dude at on your team, he's not your classmate, he's God, yeah, he's Yahweh, he's Jehovah Jirah, he's Jehovah Rapha, he's Yahweh Saboeth, he's he's all of these things that and we have to use those words to comprehend who he is, yeah, but we still can't.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like our finite minds can't even go there.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he gives us glimpses on a daily basis.
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  SPEAKER_01: Romans 8 28 says, and we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good.
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  SPEAKER_01: For those who are called, those who are called according to his purpose.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we we often use uh this verse um as somewhat of a sign of comfort or level of comfort that we need when we're going through a tough time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um when we look at the life of Joseph before, like God used his being sold into slavery and um wrongfully being accused of rape and left in prison and and later restored and all of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We see the same thing with Esther.
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  SPEAKER_01: She was pulled from obscurity into a position of royalty, but not for her own gain or her own personal status.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we tend to use those verses and rightfully so.
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  SPEAKER_01: God can use any situation for good, but ultimately we can trust God that he will use every situation, not just for the good of that situation.
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  SPEAKER_01: In verse 29, it says, we are to be conformed into the image of his son, and we can trust that God is not only going to use our situation for good, for teaching, for training, um for direction, for guidance, um, for patience, whatever it is, and all of those things chisel down the clay, if you will, so that we can become more like Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think sometimes we tend to take verses and only use them emotionally for our situation.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know I do that from time to time.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I can ultimately trust that God's main goal is to make me more like his son.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, even you just talked about it in these elections.
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  SPEAKER_01: God is not sitting on the throne surprised about the outcome of these elections.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's not looking to the right and saying, Jesus, did you know?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like this was it, it doesn't work that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like he knew before we knew, and he's going to use it in a global way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: He'll use it in a national way, and he'll use it in a personal way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he'll he'll he may use it to affect us in some practical ways in our city, in our state, in our country.
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  SPEAKER_01: But for sure he will use it to make us more like his son.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and probably in the realm of trusting him more.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we were never created to trust in money, politics, status, and all the things that we get caught up in.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we have to be so careful of allowing social constructs and what man may say that we should be uh caught up in to get in the way of our trust in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's where that lean not from Proverb, Proverbs three and five can get so many of us in trouble when we start to lean on our own understanding.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: God never called us to do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's saying, Trust me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as we're talking about today, at the end of the day, at the beginning of the day, throughout the day, he can be trusted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, he uses those trials to shape us, to mold us more and more into his likeness and to deepen our trust and our dependence upon him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes it feels like we are in those uh raging rivers of life, and probably like Joseph may have felt, and you're being tossed to and fro by the rapids of hardship and suffering.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then we see that large rock that's coming up in the middle of the river, and we desperately grab onto it and we cling to it, and we can rest knowing that we are safe, that rock isn't going anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we have that feeling of security as we cling to and we trust in that immovable rock that is the Lord Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: As Isaiah 26, 4 says, trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we we pray that that encourages someone today who who's feeling like they're being tossed about.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have this everlasting rock in Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we think about people who try to argue with us about the claims of Christ, no one can dispute our personal testimony of what God has done in our lives to save us.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one can argue with how God has changed our lives and transformed our hearts with his saving grace and his mercy and by the power of his word.
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  SPEAKER_00: He can be trusted because his inspired and inerate word can be trusted.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why remaining in the word, abiding in the word is so important in the life of a believer.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think you know, when we stay in God's Word, it is a tangible present reminder.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's why daily Bible study is so important.
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  SPEAKER_01: That he's not only good, but he's good and he can be trusted.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's good and he can be trusted.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he loves us more than anything that we could ever conjure up in terms of loving.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I tell my kids all the time, I'm like, Daddy loves you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like Daddy would take one for all of y'all.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I still don't love you as much as God does.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like that, that's different.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, and and staying in God's word is a a reminder of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 119 speaks of many verses on on uh it's all about God's word and the reminders that he can be trusted.
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  SPEAKER_01: The other thing that we um need to remember is that we we can't blame God.
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  SPEAKER_01: We gotta be really careful of blaming God versus trusting God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Emotionally, I I get it, and I think we all have been there.
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  SPEAKER_01: When a circumstance doesn't go our way, it's easy to say, if you would have done this, God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we've seen like that's not a good thing to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, Adam tried it in the Garden of Eden.
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  SPEAKER_01: Saul tried it in 1 Samuel 15.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we have to remind ourselves that God does everything good, he does not um want to cause us harm.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Bible says that Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's amazing when things are going off of our expectation or off of the path, how we never think about Satan.
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  SPEAKER_01: How he wants to rob us of the joy and the peace and the life that God has for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: We just think, man, God, you could have, whatever it is, or God, you should have.
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  SPEAKER_01: And just a few reminders, Romans 2.4 says, or do you think lightly of the riches of his kindness and restraint and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is it is the kindness of God that we even have a relationship with him through his son.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's kindness.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't say stern, it doesn't say he's mean, none of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It says kindness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jeremiah 29, 11, for I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Plans for prosperity and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope.
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  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 145, nine.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh Psalm 34, 8, taste and see that the Lord is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: How blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And lastly, don't ever get tricked into thinking that God owes us something.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like he doesn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we can in our own economy, and and unfortunately, bad doctrine can have people thinking that God owes us something.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, when you listen to some of the folks that that are in pulpits today, they teach a message that resembles that paradigm that God owes us something.
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  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't know us anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, we're indebted to him in ways that we can't imagine.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, God does he he's not um in debt to us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: As a matter of fact, it it's indefinitely in the other direction when we think and and one day when we get to heaven, we're gonna understand it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like heaven is full of people that know that they don't deserve heaven.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, and we just don't have that perspective here on earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it's pretty cool to listen to what Job said to God before he was restored.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Bible says in Job 42, verses 1 through 6, then Job answered the Lord and said, I know that you can do all things, and that no plan is impossible for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who is this who conceals advice without knowledge?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what God said.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I do not know, please listen and I will speak.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will ask you and you instruct me.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what God said.
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  SPEAKER_01: Job said, I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Therefore I retract and I repent, sitting on dust and ashes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And God when God when Job was going through it, God did not give Job an answer.
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  SPEAKER_01: He just told him who he was.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think we're we have to be constantly reminded, I know I have to, of who God is, what his character is, how much he loves me, and how much I can trust him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then it says in that next verse, Job 42 7, that the Lord's wrath was kindled against Job's friends because they had not spoken of God what is trustworthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, they had this misguided theology on God's goodness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Job rightly assessed these things referring to God's goodness are too wonderful for us to fully understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know some might be listening today, and you're thinking, I feel a little like Job right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, things never seem to be working out for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it feels like doors just keep closing one after another in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And know that we are we are praying for you today, praying for God to speak his promises of his goodness and his kindness and his faithfulness to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And despite the circumstances of life, as we've been saying today, you know, we wake up, God is on his throne, we thank the Lord for another day of breath and life to give him praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we pray that God gives you the strength to see beyond the temporal circumstances and focus on eternal things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember that he is worthy of our trust and he has our best in mind.
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  unknown: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me pray right now for the listener.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lord, we do ask that you would fill each person who might hear these words with your peace and your promises.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give us a greater glimpse of your goodness and your faithfulness, Lord, knowing that you can do all things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing is impossible for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: No person is beyond your reach, and and you alone are worthy of all of our worship and all of our trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we do pray for those who are listening and they might be discouraged, they might be questioning your goodness at this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Would you reveal yourself anew to them, remind them of your nearness, and that you are with them always.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Lord, we lift our eyes to you from where our help comes from, maker of heaven and earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are good, you are faithful, and you are gonna be a good one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we pray this in the name of your Son Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you for spending time with us today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, wherever you find yourself, know that God loves you, He's for you, He's a good, good father, and He's got a good plan for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we'll see you next time.
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