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Spiraling, negative thoughts take up residence in our minds more than they should. King David himself struggled with anxiety and depression, as evident in the Psalms. However, in the Psalms, David does something that we should also be doing: he puts his thoughts against the character and Word of God. What would happen if WE did that? Do you think we could live a less anxious life? It is possible!      Monologue: Autumn reminisces on her family's recent trip to the Texas State Fair.  Message: Autumn shows how the Psalms are a perfect example of how believers can and should choose to trust the character of God OVER their own spiraling thoughts.  Testimony: A friend of the Miles' family sought the Lord for guidance with something huge that he was wrestling with, and God was faithful in His response.    Bible References: Psalms 13, 25, 38, 42 2 Corinthians 10:5 Philippians 4:4-8   Links from the show BOOKS: www.autumnmiles.com/resources SPEAKING: www.autumnmiles.com/speaking MERCH: autumnmiles.square.site   If you have a suggestion for the ministry, a question for Autumn, a testimony to share, or other inquiry for the Autumn Miles Ministries, click here and fill out the form, or send us an email at hello@autumnmiles.com    Join us on social media! Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheAutumnMiles/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/autumnmiles/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AutumnMiles   Click here to join our weekly and monthly newsletters and get updates on our podcast and exclusive content! If you feel led to give to the Autumn Miles Ministries, click here to donate. Thank you for supporting Autumn Miles Ministries!

On this week's podcast, Keith shares the Q&A portion from his conference on the Sovereignty of God at Beryl Baptist Church. He also preached four messages which are available on their YouTube page, linked below. The Sovereign of God: Over the Nations https://www.youtube.com/live/3LxK91wo... Over Circumstances https://www.youtube.com/live/UeKzbXeZ... Over Prayer https://www.youtube.com/live/1KSllE4R... Over Salvation https://www.youtube.com/live/eaP0un2J... DON'T FORGET! Partner with ‪@ConversationswithaCalvinist‬ You can get the smallest Bible available on the market, which can be used for all kinds of purposes, by visiting TinyBibles.com and when you buy, use the coupon code KEITH for a discount. Buy our shirts and hats: https://yourcalvinist.creator-spring.com Visit us at KeithFoskey.com If you need a great website, check out fellowshipstudios.com SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OUR SHOW SUPPORTERS!!! Support the Show: buymeacoffee.com/Yourcalvinist

One of the great things about the Psalms (and one of the reasons we do a summer series through the psalms) is because you can drop in on pretty much any psalm and find something immediately helpful.Y'all ever done that before? You ever “dropped in” on the Psalms? Maybe you need a word from God, you need some encouragement from the Scriptures but you're not exactly sure where to go to, so you basically close your eyes and pick a random place in the psalms — a “Psalms drop in.”A lot of us have done that before, and the reason we go to the Psalms is because these are prayers and poems and songs, and they're about God. Over thousands of years, the people of God have come to this book for help and perspective. Most of the time, reading a Psalm is like running down hill — But that's “most” of the time, not all the time. Psalm 82 is different. I spent most of last week perplexed by this psalm, and I'm tempted in the sermon to spend too much time telling you why. There are all kinds of questions here that send us in different directions — and if we were doing a Bible study, we'd walk through each question, we'd weigh the different interpretations, we'd wrestle for the right meaning, but this is a sermon, and we are in worship, and so I want our main question to be: What do we learn here about God? Despite some of the interpretive questions, what truths about God and reality can we be sure this psalm is affirming? I have three:God reigns over everything.God will judge all moral unrighteousness.God will get his global glory.Each of these truths are clear in Psalm 82 and they matter for how we live. So we're gonna walk through each one, but first let's pray:Father in heaven, thank you for the Holy Spirit who illumines your word to our hearts. He gives understanding to the simple, and we confess that we need the power of your Spirit in these moments! Send him, we ask, in Jesus's name, amen. 1. God reigns over everything. Look at verse 1:“God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment…”Right away we're asking: What is this “divine council” and who are these “gods”?You don't see this on every page of Scripture, but the reality is always there, and every now and then we see glimpses of it, that in the presence of God, at least at certain times, there is an assembly of supernatural beings who are involved in the affairs of this world. Sometimes these supernatural beings are called little-g gods; sometimes they're called sons of God; categorically, they're angels.They're close to God and privy to his will, and they're active in how his will plays out in the world; but the main thing we should see here is that God is over them. He has a place in their company, and that place is judge. God is judge over all creation, which includes the spiritual realm. And this is where we might need to stretch our imaginations. God Over the Material WorldWe believe, and we say all the time, that God is sovereign. God is in control. “God has decreed in himself, from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably, all things whatsoever comes to a pass” (3.1). We believe that, and most of the time when we think about the arena of God's sovereignty — where God's sovereignty plays out — we think about this world and the stuff that we can see. And we should think that. It is a right and wonderful thing to apply the sovereignty of God to this material world. More of that, please.Earlier this week I was coming back from some church planting meetings in Atlanta, driving to the airport at night, and I'm pretty dependent on Google Maps. I need my phone to tell me where to go. Well you know when you get close to an airport, they have way-finder signs that make it pretty much dummy proof. So I see these signs, I've seen them before, but my phone is telling me to do something different than what the signs are telling me. And here's the deal: I've not left myself a lot of time. I have a very thin margin for error, and now I've got to decide to follow the signs or follow my phone. Well, I went with my phone. Bad choice! I was headed to the wrong place. I must have made a glitch when I plugged things in. And by the time I fix that and loop around, it adds half an hour, and now I'm sweating. Then I started to think about how missing my flight would torpedo the rest of my week. So I go from sweating to spiraling, but then the Holy Spirit ministered to me and I remembered the sovereignty of God.Even if I miss this flight because of my human error, God is looking after that. He's looking after me. He reigns over every detail, even over glitches in our material world. Well I ended up making my flight because it was delayed, because there was another glitch somewhere else. God knew the whole time.And the examples like this are endless. And sometimes it goes well for us, sometimes it stays difficult, but we should remember that God is active and in control over the world as we see it. We should apply the fact of God's sovereignty to the material world in its details. But, it doesn't stop there. God Over the Spiritual WorldReality is material and spiritual. There is the seen world and the unseen world — and the unseen world, although it's unseen to us, it's just as vast and just as active as the seen world, and some of it is set against us. Paul says in Ephesians 6,“We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”Now most of the time our senses are aloof to this. It's out of sight, out of mind — and we don't even think about it. But behind everything we see, there are unseen spiritual influences and forces. There's no doubt that as I'm driving to the airport, trying to figure out where to go, the enemy has an agenda to harm me. There was a whole spiritual realm that was doing stuff — and it's like that all the time, and honestly if we could see more of it, I think it'd be too overwhelming for us. We don't have the capacity in our fallen bodies to process it, but look, here's the comfort for us: all of these spiritual beings, good or bad, every supernatural force in existence, reports to God.This is why Yahweh is called the Most High God. He reports to nobody. There is no one above him and no one equal to him. He reigns over everything. Even in the spiritual realm, among all the unseen commotion, God sits in the highest place. Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ — he is the one who ultimately calls all the shots and every created thing answers to him.Psalm 82 tells us this.2. God will judge all moral unrighteousness.We see this in verse 2, and it gets at a major question in the psalm. We know in verse 1 that God is sitting over these spiritual beings and he's holding judgment. God speaks that judgment starting in verse 2, but who is the judgment against? I think this judgment is against Israel, but God is speaking that judgment in the presence of this divine council. And there's a handful of reasons why that's the case. I won't get into them all. But go ahead and look at verse 2 and see what God is saying. Verse 2, God says: How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? SelahGive justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.The Connection to Psalm 80This is all moral behavior that God expects of Israel. We see this in other places in the Bible and we also see that Israel failed here. And the reason these things are brought up in Psalm 82 is because it's meant to be a response to Psalm 80, verses 18–19. (Remember that oftentimes the psalms are put together on purpose. Each of the psalms are connected to the ones around it, and that connection is part of the message.)Back in Psalm 80, verse 18, there's a petition. The psalmist prays, on behalf of Israel: “give us life, and we will call upon your name!” Verse 19, the very last verse of Psalm 80: “Restore us, O Yahweh God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!” And then Psalm 81 and 82 come after Psalm 80 as a reply. In Psalm 81, which we saw last week, we see that God is eager to save, but the problem is the people's disobedience. Look back at Psalm 81, verse 10. God says, “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.”Look at verse 13. God says: “Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!” That's when God says he would subdue their enemies. That's when God says he would feed them “with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you” (verse 16). See the problem?The Jelly Roll DilemmaThe reason Israel has experienced the judgment of exile instead of blessing is because they have disobeyed God (see Deuteronomy 28). They've rebelled against God's will. And they would be absolute fools to ask for God's blessing and deliverance but continue to disobey him. That's the point here. It's what we could call the ‘Jelly Roll dilemma.'Y'all know that country song, “Need a Favor?” It goes: I only talk to God when I need a favorAnd I only pray when I ain't got a prayerSo, who the heck am I, who the heck am ITo expect a Savior, ohIf I only talk to God when I need a favor?But God, I need a favorIsrael needed a favor too, but they weren't living right. They were not listening to God. And that's actually the main thing God wants. God wants our obedience. He wants our hearts. This is a consistent theme in Scripture, and I want to show you this.God Desires ObedienceSo heads up: I'm about to read a lot of verses, but try to hang with me. I want us to track a theme here in Scripture:1 Samuel 15:22, “To obey is better than sacrifice.”Psalm 40:6,“In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear.” Jeremiah 7:22–23,For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'Everybody see that theme? God isn't concerned with the stuff that we might ‘give' him — what we could call our sacrifices, the ways we might go through the motions of devotion. Instead, God wants our hearts: “To obey is better than sacrifice.”Obedience Is Showing MercyOkay, but now how does that obedience look? Well get this: there are other places in Scripture that contrast obedience to sacrifice but the word “obedience” is not used, it's just described. Listen to this:Proverbs 21:3,“To do righteousness and justice is more pleasing to Yahweh than sacrifice.”Isaiah 1:11,“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says Yahweh; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.But, verse 16: “Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, 17 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.”Do you hear how obedience is being described? Micah 6, verses 6–8 — we call this the ‘micah-drop' passage — the prophet Micah says:With what shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”He's talking about sacrifices. Is it those things that please God?Verse 8:“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does Yahweh require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”In short, obedience to God means loving your neighbor. Obedience to God means we show kindness, especially to those in need. Our obedience to God is displayed in moral righteousness.Disobedience DisplayedSo, if that's obedience, then disobedience is the opposite of that.And that's what Psalm 82:2–4 describes. Israel's disobedience to God was displayed in the way they harmed others (or in the ways they simply chose not to help!) — unjust decision-making, favoring the wicked, oppressing endangered children, neglecting the rights of the afflicted and destitute, looking the other way from the weak and needy.Israel had been doing all of this moral unrighteousness in defiance of God's word, and yet they're asking God to bless them! Look, I'll tell you, I would not want to be standing anywhere near Israel in this situation. God does not bless them in response to their unrighteousness, he brings judgment. God's answer to the petition of Psalm 80:19 is to call them to account for their evil with Psalm 82:2.God Bless America?And there's a takeaway here for nation-states. When we read the Old Testament and we connect the dots from ancient Israel to our present day, sometimes the connection is straight to the church, the people of God, to us. And sometimes the connection is to nation-states, to countries. And one lesson here for our country is that before people start praying “God Bless America,” they should get America clean with righteousness and humility. What I'm saying is this: we should never expect God to bless this country as the laws of our land promote slaughtering babies and mutilating children and destroying families. God demands moral righteousness in his created world. And of course God expects this from us as a local church and as Christians — God help us! — but beyond us, God demands moral righteousness from every created thing, from people who together call themselves a nation to every single individual to ever exist. God demands moral righteousness and every morally unrighteous act will be accounted for.Verse 8 says, “Arise, O God, judge the earth.” That means whole earth and every part. No unrighteousness gets swept under the rug. None is ignored. God's judgment is coming. God will judge all moral unrighteousness.Psalm 82 tells us this. 3. God will get his global glory.This is the last half of verse 8. I'm not going to go into verses 6–7. I wrote an article about that on Friday. But look at verse 8. The psalmist concludes:“Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!”Judgment and NationsGod's judgment and inheriting the nations — we should ponder here how these two things are related. We know judgment has been the theme of Psalm 82, but now the psalmist says that God will inherit all the nations! Where's that come from?Well, for one, the nations are a big part of the next psalm, Psalm 83, and in Psalm 83 these nations have set themselves against God and his people. The nations are scheming to destroy God's people and subvert God's plans, and here Psalm 82:8 sets us up for that. We're reminded here that actually all these nations, all people groups everywhere, they belong to God too. God will have them. Psalm 82 says that, but there's even more going on. God's judgment and inheriting the nations is a combo we've heard before. This is how the Book of Psalms begins, way back in Psalm 2. I think Psalm 82:8 is meant to send us back to Psalm 2. It's a reminder.The Psalm 2 KeyIn Psalm 2, verse 6, God speaks and says: “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”This King is God's Messiah, and in verse 7 the Messiah himself speaks and says:I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”So God's Messiah — the King appointed by God who is also God's Son — the nations are his heritage. In other words, the Messiah will inherit the nations (just like we read in Psalm 82). All people groups everywhere are his, and he sits over them as judge.So Psalm 2, verse 10 issues a warning:Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. 11 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son [or honor the Son], lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.Psalm 2 is the key to all the rest of the psalms, and it's really simple. There are only two outcomes in life: God's judgment or God's blessing. And it all has to do with what you do with God's Messiah, Jesus. If you reject Jesus, then you die in your sins and face God's judgment. If you take refuge in Jesus, then you will be blessed — forgiveness of sin and life with God forever. Invitation and EvidenceAnd the invitation is to take refuge. That's the invitation in the Psalms and in the whole Bible, and it's an invitation to all peoples. All peoples everywhere, take refuge in Jesus. Trust him!And get this: they will. In God's providence, for the glory of his Son, he will be worshiped by those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. God will get his global glory. And we're evidence of that. I felt this in a special way a few weeks ago on vacation. My family was at one of our favorite places in the world — Topsail Island, North Carolina. I grew up going to this beach, and I love it. And one of my favorite things to do is just to look out at the vastness of the ocean. You look out and realize that on the other side of that line is Africa. I'm standing on the edge of the continent, a long ways from Jerusalem. And yet here I am, worshiping Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God says, “The coastlands shall hope for me!” (Isaiah 51:5). And that's me. And I feel it. I am such a Gentile. I'm a Philistine, and the son of Philistines. And I'm saved … because in the sovereignty of God, by his grace, I trust in Jesus Christ. God is getting his global glory through us, and he will get his global glory — worshipers from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation. Psalm 82 tells us this, and that's what brings us to the Table. The TableHow is it that by faith in Jesus we are freed from God's judgment?It's because Jesus has taken that judgment for us. That's what he did when he died on the cross. When Jesus died, he sacrificed himself for our sin. He took all of our moral unrighteousness and in our place he absorbed the judgment that we deserved — and when we put our faith in him, when we take refuge in him, we're forgiven and free. We are blessed forever. You can receive that blessing right now, you can be saved from the judgment of God, if you trust Jesus. Turn from trusting in yourself, put your faith in Jesus Christ.And for those of you who have trusted in Jesus, we who are part of his global glory, let's come to this Table and give him thanks.The bread represents his broken body, the cup represents his shed blood, and when we eat the bread and drink the cup, we're saying that indeed Jesus is our hope. If Jesus is your hope, we invite you to eat and drink with us.

The Providence of God Over the People of GodSeries: Into the Wilderness: A Journey of Freedom Speaker: Dr. Wes FeltnerDate: 4th February 2024Passage: Exodus 1:1-7

Title: Lessons from the Start of Mission Number Two Passage: Acts 16:1-10 Encouragement to Christan Parents Remove Barriers to the Gospel, Don't Create Them Trust the Providence of God Over the Plans of Men

使徒の働きシリーズパート10、「宣教を治める神」｜Acts part 10, "God Over the Mission"

As I picked up my journal to begin writing at some point one day it felt as if I could literally feel the breath coming back in my body as the words flooded the page with recognizing my dependence in getting still in God's presence and allowing his spirit to strengthen all that I am.My being still …reminding every part of me that he is God…Over everything.Every thought racing through my mind…Pulling my thoughts out of the past and the future Into the very moment, I am in Right here Right nowThat's where he is …And where his peace and presence Surrounds and strengthens me.Seasonal Journal: https://amzn.to/3lBeg6ihttps://www.instagram.com/susanbethmorris/https://www.pinterest.com/sheissusanbeth/https://wavve.link/susanbethIntro & Outro Music Credit:Music: https://www.purple-planet.com - License Free Background Music Credit: Alexander Bluhttps://www.facebook.com/AlexanderBluMusic/

Gabe Finochio is a Christian educator, content creator, musician, and meme magician. You might follow him and his creations on Instagram as Woke Jesus Christ, Silly Graham Ministries or TheosU Memes (RIP). If you do, you'll know he's helped create a Christian meme language all his own. But not long into this discussion I realized that behind his "serrated edge," he also has a rich perspective on theology, morality, politics, culture, sovereignty, the decline of the United States, and more. Which is probably where memes really come from: a grasp of the issues that runs so deep, it can be expressed in a single image and just a few words. Viewed that way, memes really are magic. In our conversation we discussed: The McDonalds of Evangelism Cooking the Evangelical Books Puffer Fish Churches Ecumenism vs. Sectarianism Left vs. Right, and Up vs. Down The Rights of God Over the State Satire as Sneak Attack.  CONNECT WITH GABE https://theosu.ca https://instagram.com/wokejesuschrist https://instagram.com/gabrielfinochio2.0 "EXITING THE NEW AGE" SEMINAR Monday, February 27 - 5:30pm PST on Zoom Tickets: Eventbrite.com Use code: PODCAST for 15% off RENAISSANCE MENTORSHIP The world says masculinity is toxic. Everything the world says is backwards. That means masculinity is medicine. Find out more: https://renofmen.com/mentorship THE RENAISSANCE OF MEN https://www.renofmen.com https://www.instagram.com/renofmen/ https://twitter.com/renofmen https://youtube.com/@renofmen

Passage: 1 Peter 1:13-21 Sermon Quick Notes: 1. Preparing for Holiness 2. How does a person who have BEEN with Jesus, change by Jesus now should live? a. They place... I. God Over the Mob vs 13 II. God Over Selfishness vs 14-16 III. God Over Culture vs 17 IV. God Over Family vs 18-21

Lifting the Rod of God Over the Nation 4. How to reject a bad king and get a good one

Lifting the Rod of God Over the Nation 5. How to reject a bad king and get a good one

Lifting the Rod of God Over the Nation 6. How to reject a bad king and get a good one

Lifting the Rod of God Over the Nation 2. From wrath to mercy (Discerning the anger of God)

Lifting the Rod of God Over the Nation 1. The Lord will guide you into destiny

Lifting the Rod of God Over the Nation 3. Laying down our wills and activating the blessings 

Sermon Title: The Sovereignty of God Over the Evil of Man Speaker: Ian Jeyaseelan Date: Apr - 18 - 2021

Geloof en moedeloosheid, gaat het samen? Als je bidt en het gaat even niet goed: klaag je dan tegen God? Over voelen, klagen, boosheid en meer.

Sovereignty of God Over the Election | Pastor Chris Ogden | Horizon West Church by Horizon West Church

Thanksgiving Day Service led by Pastor Harry Zekveld--Thanksgiving Litany- Psalm 136-Sermon- Give Thanks to God Over and Over and Over Again

How do you pray? Want to know more about talking to God? Over the next few weeks, we're going to be taking a closer look at a common prayer you may know and may even have memorized—the Lord’s Prayer. The Bible records the disciples asking Jesus to teach them only one thing. They asked Jesus how to pray. Of all the things they could have asked, why this? We all have something to learn from Jesus as we begin praying Like This.

Thuiskomen bij elkaar en bij God? Over zoeken, niet in het plaatje passen. Tussen vervreemding en verlangen.

Holiday Social Tip, Sci-Fi Question: Isolation, The Christmas Tree Redemption, Christmas Trees are Falling from the Sky Cover, Opening Packages, Breaking Animal News, Hearing About the Goodness of God Over and Over, Personality Tests; Quotes: “Listen carefully, then bring up Eastern Europe.” “Non-stop massages WHILE I’m giving money to CURE.” “I wasn’t used in Roman whatever…to date.” “Once again a big “no” for Wonky The Unicorn Rabbit.” “We need to hear about the goodness of God over and over.”

Deuteronomy 2:1–3:29I. The Authority of God Over the Assignment of LandII. The Authority of God Over the Leadership of IsraelIII. The Authority of God Over His People Today

While I was praying this morning I said to God, why is it so hard for some people to commit and follow through on what they have said they would do? God’s answer came back quickly. He said son, if they aren’t willing to commit to Me as they promised, what makes you think they will do what they said for you? This rocked me, but at the same time made perfect sense. So the question is, can you even spare two minutes a day for God? Over the coming weeks i am going to post daily thoughts that shouldn’t take more than two minutes of your time. I encourage you to seek God and commit to Him. Are you waiting for answers from God? When you think your prayers aren’t being answered, do you get discouraged and cry out, “God, why aren’t you helping me?” Yet God has promised to answer your prayers. “Ask, and it will be given to you, seek, and you will find, knock, and it will be opened for you” this is what the bible tells us in Matthew 7:7 However, sometimes you don’t see the answer for a while, or God may say no because He has a different, and better plan. So you are exhorted to ask, but your request must be. First, in faith (Matthew 21:22) Second, without selfish motives (James 4:3) And thirdly you must ask, according to the will of God(1 John 5:14-15) Let’s all pray today, Lord I confess that I am not good at waiting for Your answers to my prayers. But as I wait, I believe You will build my faith, purify my heart, and show me your will. Amen Thank you Lord --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refineryliferadio/message

Be bold in declaring all the promises of God Over your life and all that you believe that you have received, whatever it is. Is a job, car, marriage, money, house or expansion in your ministry or business that you have received by faith? Whatever it is, you need to be bold in your faith and declare wit is already yours. Faith is a law of the spirit through which the human spirit gets to be a participant in supernatural activities and also superimpose and experience all of heaven’s graces, glory and provisions in the earth. Faith does not ask " Why didn't I get it"? because faith already got it! Faith has a guarantee of the future; it is certain about what tomorrow’s outcome will be!

Praying to God can feel a lot like wishful thinking. We know we should pray, but how? And when we pray, is God listening? Does He care? And if He already knows what we need, what's the point? What if prayer wasn't about wishful thinking, but about emptying ourselves enough to hear from God? Over the next couple of weeks, we will see that prayer is more about us getting aligned with God than Him being aligned with us. Prayer is more than just wishful thinking. God is always listening, and with tremendous power, He speaks to us.

Praying to God can feel a lot like wishful thinking. We know we should pray, but how? And when we pray, is God listening? Does He care? And if He already knows what we need, what's the point? What if prayer wasn't about wishful thinking, but about emptying ourselves enough to hear from God? Over the next couple of weeks, we will see that prayer is more about us getting aligned with God than Him being aligned with us. Prayer is more than just wishful thinking. God is always listening, and with tremendous power, He speaks to us.

Praying to God can feel a lot like wishful thinking. We know we should pray, but how? And when we pray, is God listening? Does He care? And if He already knows what we need, what's the point? What if prayer wasn't about wishful thinking, but about emptying ourselves enough to hear from God? Over the next couple of weeks, we will see that prayer is more about us getting aligned with God than Him being aligned with us. Prayer is more than just wishful thinking. God is always listening, and with tremendous power, He speaks to us.

Praying to God can feel a lot like wishful thinking. We know we should pray, but how? And when we pray, is God listening? Does He care? And if He already knows what we need, what's the point? What if prayer wasn't about wishful thinking, but about emptying ourselves enough to hear from God? Over the next couple of weeks, we will see that prayer is more about us getting aligned with God than Him being aligned with us. Prayer is more than just wishful thinking. God is always listening, and with tremendous power, He speaks to us.

Praying to God can feel a lot like wishful thinking. We know we should pray, but how? And when we pray, is God listening? Does He care? And if He already knows what we need, what's the point? What if prayer wasn't about wishful thinking, but about emptying ourselves enough to hear from God? Over the next couple of weeks, we will see that prayer is more about us getting aligned with God than Him being aligned with us. Prayer is more than just wishful thinking. God is always listening, and with tremendous power, He speaks to us.

Praying to God can feel a lot like wishful thinking. We know we should pray, but how? And when we pray, is God listening? Does He care? And if He already knows what we need, what's the point? What if prayer wasn't about wishful thinking, but about emptying ourselves enough to hear from God? Over the next couple of weeks, we will see that prayer is more about us getting aligned with God than Him being aligned with us. Prayer is more than just wishful thinking. God is always listening, and with tremendous power, He speaks to us.

0294 - God Over, In and Through The Waters - Geoff Chapman - 07-01-2018.mp3 by Turners Hill Free Church

God Over the Desert

Download | Subscription (FREE) In this episode, Rev. Gibson and Johnny Gwin discuss the themes of meeting God and Living Water. What would it be like to meet Jesus? What would you say? Would you know who he was? Jesus's interaction with the Samarian women at Jacob's Well and his meeting with Nicodemus shows us a very "human" and intimate conversation with the people around him. Jesus seems to be an excellent listener and a teacher in these gospel stories from John. What could we learn about life and ourselves from such a personal conversation with Jesus? Moses and his Israelites are also discussed, and we are reminded of the "human nature" to not only turn on each other but God when things look bad and not going our way? Beverly illustrates how Moses shows us (in Exodus) that God is always among us and he provides when we are in need. Is our faith and spirit strong enough to see God when we think he has abandoned us? Hear Johnny actually describe the show summary accurately this week, and he manages to sneak in a Jean Grey (from X-Men) and Bruce Lee mention into today's conversation. What You Will Hear: > Discussion of "setting a scene" with the intimate conversations that John describes in his Gospel (Nicodemus & Samarian Women at well) > The Samarian Woman description and her significance > The well at the center of the city and the importance of Jacob's Well > Living Water = Moses delivers from a rock and Jesus discusses how we will deliver water that will quench your thirst forever > Theme of "Living Water" - not stagnant but "flowing" from one person to another. Spirit and faith should be "flowing" through us and to each other > "I am He" - how Jesus knew the Samarian woman > The "human exchange" between Jesus and the Samarian Women > The place of Samarian women in the Jewish world > Jesus is the "deep listener" that can hear what reverberates through your soul > Jean Grey (X-Men) and her burden of knowing what everyone thinks and feels > To know what to do with someone's pain and weight when you can recognize it > Third week of Lenten Journey of Spirit: meeting God > Over 40 years the Israelites turn on and quarrel with Moses many times > The actions and complaints of the Israelites is the story of "US." > Beverly shares that she has given up "Facebook" for Lent > Moses mighty Staff and his connection and relationship with God > When things don't go our way - like the Israelites - we pick up a rock, shake or fist to the sky and blame God. > Faith allows us to come back and God will provide for us > Hearing God getting "tired and over" the Israelites and their straying from Him > 40 years in the desert? Moses must have wandered in circles > The controversy of where Mt. Sinai was located > Biblical maps gives some readers a grounding to a place to help us understand a story and lesson > Fleeing and hiding in "the Wilderness" is not a bad thing - it can be a regrouping and reenergizing time > Jesus's ministry and journey in the wilderness until he "points his face toward Jerusalem" > Moses also used "the Wilderness" to prepare to what was coming > Meeting your Yoda in the Wilderness > Finding focus and learning how to work without distractions - Cal Newport's Deep Work best-selling book > Withdrawing from society and going deep in your inner world, thoughts, and feelings to find some clarity > Carl Jung had to build a sanctuary to find his center and focus > The importance and power of a retreat > JK Rowling's technique to finish the last "Harry Potter" book > Going deep to see God, Jesus, the world around us and the "real you" > The difficult of judging ourselves > Deeping diving into understanding ourselves (Christ Church Cathedral) with Ministry Architects > Deep Listening and the Deep Listening Band and their music of reverberation and evolution of participating with the environment > "Going with the flow" just like water > Bruce Lee and his martial arts analogy of "being like water, not like the rock" > Emerging from "The Wilderness" and the importance of the "parking lot" conversations with others > Spiritual growth and opportunity in every interaction with people and places > Are we the same person at 18 and at 38? > Shutting out the world, looking inward, focusing and listening to others to discover who we are and what makes us happy > Cal Newport's view of "letting go" of social media > Balancing between the world of "letting go", the wilderness and the hustle and bustle of the world > Of the Earth vs. not of this Earth balancing battle > The lessons and the message from the discipline of Lent > Johnny admits that excess social media and the disruptive world getting in the way of prayer and spirituality makes him as quarrelsome as the Israelites in the desert > Living a life that embraces "minimalism" >  The world and culture of "MORE" > Lent is a good time for attendance at Church > The purpose of a Sabbatical > Katherine Deaton's living artisanal water well > The Baptism - living water giving to you from a stagnant rock > Pulpit To Pew suddenly turns into a financial podcast concerning oil, artisanal water, and the upcoming water supply bubble Readings Referenced: Exodus 17:1-7 Romans 5:1-11 John 4:5-42   What do you think about Pulpit To Pew?
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