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Surrender
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Join us as we talk about expectations in life and what we can do when life is going in a direction we never expected.
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Introduction and Theme of Surrender
00:00:03
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Hi, I'm Bobbi, and this is Abby, and we are hosts of the Filling You Up With Hope podcast and Filling You Up With Hope YouTube channel. We are so glad that you're here. Yay, welcome to Filling You Up With Hope. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So today we're talking about surrendering. Yeah, and what made you interested in doing this topic?
00:00:33
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Oh, well, I was listening to an audiobook by Karen Stott. I think her name is. It's called An Intentional Life.
Biblical Examples of Faith and Trust
00:00:41
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And towards the end, she had said something to, I think it was something about how Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, well, not really Solomon, but I think it was, yeah, some of the main characters in our Bible
00:01:02
Speaker
surrendered to God, like they, he, they just had extreme trust and they probably wouldn't have chosen the lives that they were given to live by God, but they had trust, right? Like, so for example, we're going to talk about Joseph today, but he probably wouldn't have chosen to live in prison for like 10 years, you know? And, but he trusted God.
00:01:32
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And that just made me think, do I trust God? Do I trust God like that? Do I trust Him in the life He's given me rather than the life I want? And so that's what made me kinda like, oh my gosh, we should do a podcast on this because I need to study this and be more content in where God has me in this season, even if it is a wilderness season. Yeah.
00:02:01
Speaker
that's such a good thing for everyone to take in. And that gives us hope that we can, even if we're having a hard time, like God is working all the time, even in the hard times, and we can like, embrace it, and try and figure out like what we can do. And because there's always things that we can't do, right, instead of focusing
00:02:28
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Sometimes our brains focus on what we don't have and what we can't do. Even in his prison cell, Joseph had God and Paul. Yeah, I mean, Joseph could have easily, when he was in prison, been like, why me, why me? And he could have said to the guy with the dream,
00:02:55
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Like, God doesn't give dreams. Like, look at where I am, you know? And he didn't. No. And he didn't hold on to bitterness from what he went through. And with his brothers. Like, that amazes me, because his brothers treated him horribly. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
00:03:20
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Um, we learned a little bit today or when we were looking at this, especially today, um, Jay, uh, Joseph was like, he was proud, right? Like he had the dream from God and he was proud. He kind of boasts into his brothers about how he was going to rule them someday, you know? And so I guess I never really thought of it like that. I was always like,
00:03:49
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Maybe he was trying to tell them something. But I'm maybe an optimist. But yeah, I guess at the end of the day, we don't go around saying, God said I was going to be a gazillionaire and rule the world someday. Maybe we would. I don't really know. He was boasting a little bit. I hadn't thought about it that way until our research.
00:04:16
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And then he had to go through the wilderness, right? God had to humble him and he didn't lose sight of the promise of God through that whole wilderness season. Like it was like almost 20 years, right? He was just focused on God. And I love like at the end of Genesis, Genesis 50, like he's encountering his brothers and they're scared like he's going to have
00:04:46
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a grudge against us, you know? And Joseph says in Genesis 15-19, but Joseph said to them, don't be afraid. And my God, you planned some bad for me, but God produced something good for me in order to save the lives of many people just as he is doing today. Like his perspective,
00:05:09
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is something that we all need. Right. Yeah. Cause we don't often thank God while we're in the wilderness or in our trials. Yeah. Right. It's not until after we're on the other side of it where we can see God's plan and why we were in them, but it's hard.
Personal Stories of Faith and Overcoming Hardships
00:05:24
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It is hard. And like with like my story about like my losses of babies, like a lot of times, like I had a doctor recently like, Oh, that's
00:05:38
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Like she just felt so bad for me. And it's like, yes, that was hard to go through, but there was God. Like I have like such faith, but there was God. And, and I just know that. And like I, I just, because I have that faith.
00:05:58
Speaker
And I know that God was working. I don't like it when people feel sorry for me. Like, are you like that too? Like, if you tell people your story. Yeah, I think, yeah. Oftentimes, like, I mean, your heart breaks. Like whenever I hear, like whenever I think about what you went through, like, I'm getting teary now. Sorry. I like ridiculous. It's heartbreaking, but you're right. Like they are.
00:06:26
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with Jesus, right? They're sitting at the right hand of God. And how amazing is that? But yeah, when people hear specifically about my ex-husband, I often say, I don't even tell people the whole story now. I just say things like, he had a baby with somebody else. He did, right? He did. He had a baby with another woman. So that's not a lie, but that doesn't even scratch the surface because I hate to see
00:06:56
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Like the people's reactions, like on the awful things that we went through, and you can see it in their eyes. They have to say something, and often men are like, if I ever saw him, I'd beat him up. And you're like, no, it's brought me here. And not that I can fully understand why I had to go through some of those things, just like you.
00:07:25
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We will never fully understand why we had to suffer in that pain, but I don't know. Yeah, and we've come to terms with we don't have all the answers. Right. And we've kind of processed it. But it's like when we tell people sometimes they haven't processed it, even though it's our stuff. Right. And because in reality, like it's
00:07:53
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It's like what Joseph is saying. It's horrible what we went through, but it was part of God's plan for our lives. Right. Yeah. And our past doesn't define us. Yeah. Right. Like we are saved and we are a new creation as we're being saved. And so we can put on new skin now, you know, and, and our past tells our story, but it doesn't define us. No, it doesn't.
00:08:20
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And it's what leads us closer to him. And I, I mean, I, I hate what like my babies had to go through. I hate that, but they're there with Jesus. And like that time, like, let us, me and my husband, like so close to God. Right. You know, and I don't think I would be as close to him as I am now without them. Right. Right. Oh my gosh. Yeah. You were.
00:08:48
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God uses children all the time. Like he used Alex, right? Cause the same thing. Like I was, I was a believer, a Christian. If I had a dating website, I wouldn't put, I was a Christian, right? But it wasn't until I was holding a child, my child where my life, my whole life changed. And I was like, I can't bring her into this world being raised the same way I was.
Raising Families with Faith-Based Values
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I need like,
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The the binds and and those chains they have to be broken and the only way that'll ever happen is if we follow Jesus Yeah, you know and it was right then and there mm-hmm all right like how but and the same thing with your kid your babies like mm-hmm God uses that you know and he's just amazing because I was thinking about it today and It's like
00:09:39
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my doubts just went away. Like I can't describe it. Like why? But when I was at that low and I hate that it took me going to that low and my family and you know, I hate that. But that is when finally like all these doubts that I've been wrestling with like my whole adult life, you know, like they went away. It's so weird. Yeah.
00:10:08
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll never understand like, no, Joseph was so lucky in the fact that he got, I mean, but he was very faithful. Yes. But he was also lucky in the fact that he got to see God's plan come to fruition. We might not ever just like Moses, you know, like Moses went through a lot and he didn't actually get to even make it to the promised land. Yeah. Oh, but he got to see God split the red sea and made them
00:10:39
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out of slavery. Yeah, but that splits the red seas for us all the time. Yeah, we just don't see it.
Surrender and Alignment with God's Plan
00:10:44
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Yeah, and that's huge. You know, like, like you had said, like Abby came up with some Bible verses here, like most from, from Exodus. Yeah. And we do this, like God will save us. God will part the red sea and save us. And we will not remember that. Yeah. You know, like we won't, we will then
00:11:04
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like grumble and complain and why god why are you doing this take me back because we can't see past it we can't see past like our noses despite our face like it's so sad yeah and as anybody could is reading this yeah everybody because we know the end of the story is looking at this like why are they being so dumb we're all dumb we're all dumb we're all dumb we're all dumb like exodus 16 two three two three three
00:11:33
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This is right after they had been saved. They had seen God split the Red Sea, but they're wandering in the desert. Right. Exodus, so 16, 2-3. The whole Israelite community complained against Moses and Aaron in the desert. The Israelites said to them, oh, how we wish that the Lord had just put us to death while we were in Egypt. Yeah. But we do that. We do that. I do that.
00:12:02
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Like, you know, and we need to be able to give up the life that we thought we were going to have in order to surrender. Like I looked up the definition of surrender and it says, cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority. But we are God's enemy until we are saved. And I was like flown away by that definition because I'm like,
00:12:32
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I don't want to put that, we're not God's enemy. And I go, oh my goodness, we are, we were God's enemy until we were saved. And, but once we submit and surrender to him, we are a part of his family. We are his children. And yeah, I just loved that, you know? And that made me think of Matthew 16, 25 for whoever wants to save their life, lose it. But whoever loses their life for me will find it. And that is how we need to live.
00:12:59
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Wow. And that's, that's like cold water in your face. Yes. And it's hard when we have this new life and we're wandering in the desert, like the Israelites. But the Israelites, because they grumbled, they went from it being a one year to a lifetime. Yes. And more than a lifetime, because it was, it's like you read through our history in the Old Testament. And it's just like us, it's also pattern of behavior. Right.
00:13:29
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Complaining and suffering and crying out to finally crying out to God and then he listens and Then it's the same thing. Yeah, that's like a cycle until Jesus changed the cycle, right? You know, yeah, which is we're so blessed To have him. Yeah, but they expected like you were talking about they expected like a land of milk and honey like a perfect Promised land, right?
00:13:57
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And it wasn't what they expected it to be. Right, well they didn't remember God. They didn't remember. God gives a promise to Joseph. God gave that promise. And Joseph remembered that promise. But the Israelites didn't. They couldn't see God's promise of the land of milk and honey. They thought they were going to get it immediately. But God has to... You have to go into that wilderness, unfortunately, because we're human, to humble us.
00:14:27
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and to prepare us for the promise. Right? Like we're not, if God, like to, so to be quite honest, Abby, if God gave us like, if God made our podcasts and this little ministry that we're having right now, if God made us incredibly popular, it would go to my head. You know what I mean? Like, well, like immediately, right? It would go to my head. I'm human.
00:14:53
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Well, I don't know that because we're not very popular. And like we said in our YouTube, Leah is the only one that listens, but she doesn't even listen to our podcasts just on YouTube. No, I think she'll listen to our podcasts. But anyway, I'm like, you know, but I'm just saying like God is probably using this time because we need to grow in Him before we can, you know, then
00:15:19
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5,000 or whatever the heck we're doing. I don't even know. It's so, it's so true. And he's, yeah, he's preparing us when we're in those times. Cause when we're in those times, sometimes we just feel sorry for ourselves. And we're like, just listen to me. Cause we all know better. We all know better. And that is blasphemy or, you know, like that's a terrible sin to tell God.
00:15:46
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he's doing something wrong. Yes. Because we can't get above the cause and see. We just have to trust. We have to blindly trust him. Yeah. Mm hmm. And we just have to like, and another thing I got, I got out of this is, I don't know if I put it in here. I think I might have like, I like Job essentially, right? Like, would I be okay with losing everything and standing firm in my faith? Yeah. I, I don't know.
00:16:15
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Right? Like I could lose my house, done, been there, done that, right? I can in financial distress, been there, done that. Guys brought me on both of those. And I trusted him through it. It was hard, but I don't think I could lose Alex, you know, like, and, and I hate to even say that. Like I hated to write that on our notes here today because I was like, I don't want to admit that. Cause I don't want God to ask me to prove that my love him more than her, you know?
00:16:43
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But that's what we need to do as as children of god. Like we need to trust him Yeah, you know And that he he is first, you know, yeah, he's got
Patience, Trust, and Faith in God's Timing
00:16:54
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to be first. He's got to be the forefront. Mm-hmm He does and it doesn't mean that we're not going to struggle and have like what we're talking about and um, I love john 16 33 I I've told you these things so that in me you will have peace in this world
00:17:13
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You you will have trouble but take heart. I have overcome the world. I love that so much like we're gonna have those times but we have him and he loves us and he Wants good for us, right? He wants us to not be complaining and Like when we're in those times, you know, right right and that's hard to see but that's why it's so important to make sure that God is
00:17:40
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is the first thing. Yes. Cause he's the only thing that is like substantial, you know, like that we can hold onto everything. We just need to hold with open hands. Yeah. And that's, that's really hard. And that's basically what it means to surrender, like surrender our ideas, surrender our, our dreams. Yeah. And our expectations because he's got something better.
00:18:10
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even if it's not in this lifetime. And that gives so much hope at the same time as scary. Right? Like that's painful to say, but it gives a lot of hope. What do you think? I so agree. I think it's hard because we do, and especially sometimes our expectations we've had like our whole lives. Like, you know, we expect, I don't know, to go to medical school. I don't know, like,
00:18:39
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whatever it is for ourselves, but are we thinking about like what God wants for us, you know? Like, I don't know. Right. Well, and are we sitting with God enough to even know what His purpose is for us?
00:19:03
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Like we are never going to know, I heard this thing and I'm not going to say it correctly, but we're never going to know God's plan if we're so focused on people. Yeah. Oh yeah. Like we can come up with our own plan because we're focused on people's like their lives, comparing, yeah. Well, and comparing our lives to others, especially now with social media, like we want our lives to look like that, but that might not be what God wants for us. Yeah. But we're so distracted and we're so focused on
00:19:32
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on other people's lives that we're not sitting and our relationship isn't strong enough with God where we're seeing the promise. Joseph at least had that and David had that. They had this connection and this relationship with God to even see that he had a plan and it held through. Noah, he saw God's plan and he enacted it
00:20:00
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And it took a long time for him to build that arc. Yeah. It was such faith to just do what God was telling him to do and not like questioning it, you know, like we all do. And like all of that, the people you're talking about had such strong faith. Right. But if God was telling us to build a boat, I wouldn't hear him. Would you hear him?
00:20:28
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Well, yes you would because you, we're doing this podcast. God told Abby to start a podcast and here we are. But like, so yeah, I mean, we're not sitting, you know, like at least I don't sit hard enough and silent enough and long enough and in God's word, nearly enough. Like, I don't know, doing this podcast and diving into these stories and these scriptures just gives me such a thirst for like a personal relationship. Yeah. Cause it's amazing.
00:20:57
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Like when you read about a lot of these stories, there's a lot of forgiveness in them, which we talk about often. Like most of them have forgiveness. They all do from God, right? Because, yeah, God forgives us. God has to like, yeah. And thank God he does. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, it's amazing. And it is hard when we have those expectations
00:21:27
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in our mind that they might come from like our parents or people that we want to be like for some reason. But at some point in our life we have to think about like what does God want my expectations to be? Like what does he want things to look like? And then it's sometimes waiting like you were talking about
00:21:52
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which is hard because we want, we want it right away. We're like the Israelites in the desert, but they were in the desert. Like I can't imagine like, yeah. Like thirsty, hungry. Yeah. Like, right. Well, yeah. I mean their actions, even though it's easy to look at, at their story and read it and think you foolish people, but you know, like,
00:22:18
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we're talking about Joseph, he was in a dungeon. He was in a dungeon because he followed God. He was a slave and then he worked his way up in slavery. And then he still, even though he hadn't seen any kind of faith from God, well, really, I mean, he moved his way up in slavery, but still, he was important in the kingdom with the king, but then his wife was going after him.
00:22:48
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Yeah. He still chose God. Yeah. You know, even though he didn't see the promise, like it had been 10 years or something crazy like that, you know, and he was thrown in the dungeon and the dungeon is not like the prison here. You know, it was, it was bad. It was worse than we could ever imagine, you know, and he was tortured and then, and then he read those dreams and he was still forgotten there, you know,
00:23:16
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It's amazing. And it's like we can learn from it that like when we're in the wilderness and like, you know, why are we going through this? We can also choose to turn to God and follow God. Right. Like even in those times when it doesn't feel like he's there. Right. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you just have to seek him. Right. At all times, even when it's hard and especially when it's hard. Right. Do not lose faith. Yeah.
00:23:46
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not lose faith. Because he understands and he's amazing. Like, look at what he did for the Israelites. And continues. Even though they forget. Just like we forget. It's so good reading the Old Testament.
Learning from Biblical Teachings
00:24:03
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Because it is frustrating. Like, what are they doing? But then you're like, wait a second. I am them. And there's so much you can learn about God.
00:24:16
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in throughout the entire Bible, but especially the Old Testament, you know, especially the Old Testament, you can see his hand in every page, even numbers, you know, and that just, that does, it gives you so much hope and so much joy, you know, just knowing that God is there and he's got a plan and he knows better. He does know better. And that's so hard.
00:24:46
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Yes. Mm hmm. Yeah. So if like, you're single and you don't expect to be, or if you are struggling, like, whatever it is, like, God, God's plan, like, is amazing. Yeah. And he has an amazing plan for you. Right. It's just like, in his time, which is the hardest thing. Right. And I heard
00:25:14
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I heard a thing today. I don't know who said it. It was like, it was a John Bevere thing, but I don't know if it was him or somebody else. He said, you can't, you can't shorten the wilderness, but you can certainly lengthen it. And I loved that. Cause I was like, wow. Yes. Like by our grumblings, by our, our losing our faith, by our stumbles, by our,
00:25:42
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Like looking to outside things We can not learn the lesson as fast as we were We would have if we just kept our eyes focused on Jesus. Yep I mean the message is always like he is enough like even when we're having those times and we want to complain Which honestly that that
00:26:07
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that change it makes me not want to complain as much because it's very normal in our culture do you think to complain and I'm very guilty of it yeah but we can kind of make a choice like we can see what God has done even when we're in the wilderness yeah like if the Israelites had remembered like he just parted the red sea for us right you know yeah that's good yeah
00:26:35
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And even as he was doing that, some of them were looking back, you know, when they were supposed to be looking forward, which we all look back to when we're in the wilderness, right? And sometimes when, you know, we look back and we think, like, why did that happen to me? Right. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Oh, my gosh. You guys are just going to crucify me for this now. Crucify is a very strong word.
00:27:05
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Um, that woman that looked back, whose wife was that? Um, and she, she looked back at all. She's lost or what she couldn't see forward. Yeah. And that's such, I don't know what made me think of that just now, but that's such a strong reminder of don't look at what you think you've lost cause that's nothing. Yeah.
00:27:29
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Yeah, look at all God has done. Like it's spring right now. And it's like all of the trees are, you know, beautiful leaves and flowers are blooming and that's God. Like it's God's beautiful universe. Like we can choose to focus on that and all that he's done, you know? And which is amazing that people like Paul and Joseph
00:27:57
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like can focus on him even in the worst circumstances. Right. Right. Well, yeah, cause they got it and I keep missing the mark. You know, I keep missing it. You know, I keep looking to all the things that I don't have, you know, and, and that's not going to get me to the next step. Yeah. You know, I need to be in this. I need to grow.
00:28:24
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And I need to just embrace where God has me. Cause you have so many amazing things that he's given you. Oh my gosh. Yes. Absolutely. That's the problem is like, especially Alex, I wanted a family as a young child, you know, like I wanted a family expectation and that was like fulfilled. Yeah, absolutely. Like he gave her to me, but I can see where like you hold on too tight, you know? Yeah.
00:28:54
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And sometimes it happens in ways, like I didn't expect to, like, have a miscarriage at stillbirth and lose a baby at two months,
Exploring Faith Journeys in Life and the Bible
00:29:03
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you know? Yeah. You know, it happens in different ways than we expect it to happen, you know? Yeah, that's hard. That's so hard, Abby. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Yeah. OK.
00:29:24
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And another example of what we're talking about is Abraham. Yeah, I didn't even think about him. Yeah. And how God comes to him and tells him, like, leave your land, your family, your father's household for the land that I will show you. I will make a great nation and will bless you. I will make your name respected and you will be a blessing and I will bless those who bless you.
00:29:53
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those who curse you, I will curse. All the families of earth will be blessed because of you. Abraham left just as the Lord told him. Yeah. Like that, that is you're right. Like that is God giving Abraham a dream and then Abraham living it out. Yeah. Well, not his wife a hundred percent, but yeah. And not him either. You know? Yeah. I mean, he could have told his wife, no, I'm not going to have a baby with my maid, but
00:30:21
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He didn't, but we are not perfect, right, Abby? And maybe that's why he had to be in the wilderness for so long. But God still did amazing things through that, but, yeah. And he lied about her being his wife and stuff. Oh gosh, yeah, I mean, everybody, the greatest, the greatest, like David, he fell short. He's human. Yeah, we all do. And I'm sure growing up, he didn't expect
00:30:51
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Well, first of all, to be as old as he was and not to have children. Right. And then to pick up and leave like his town. I mean, I don't I'm guessing they probably lived there for a very long time. Right. And just to pick up and leave. You know, it's crazy because I was talking because we're doing some hiring. Well, not we. Our church is doing some hiring. Right. And
00:31:17
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I was talking to one of our friends Miriam who works at the church and she said, people travel for ministry all the time. They go wherever God calls them to go. And I can't even imagine like how, that's amazing. I don't know. I was just, I never thought of it and I never really connected the dots really until she said that today, this week on the phone. You know? Like that is following God. Yeah. Yes it is. Aww.
00:31:47
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It's so following God. And sometimes, like we're talking about, it looks different than what we expect. And he didn't expect for God to give him and his wife a child as, you know, how old were they? Like 90s or something? Yes. Yes. Like that's another like God thing. That's our human mind.
00:32:17
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sometimes can't like take in what God can do. Right. I mean, look at his wife. She laughed. She couldn't, yeah. She laughed. She couldn't. And we think like, well, God himself, or like, you know, sent angels to tell you and you're laughing.
The Podcast as a Faith Journey
00:32:34
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But I would have laughed. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, when you said we're going to do this podcast, I was like, okay, Abby, yeah, we'll do a podcast. The weird thing about that was,
00:32:44
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I like jokingly said it, and then we both followed it. You know what I mean? I don't know, but it's been such a good journey, I think, this podcast. Me too. You can't go wrong with learning more about God and the time spending with Him and getting
00:33:13
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to know the Bible more. That's just a gift in itself. And I just pray that people are listening and getting some hope because all of these stories, like Abraham's stories, such hope because God also made him the father of all of us. Right. Yeah. And I mean, we all want purpose, right? And we all want
00:33:40
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to know what God's purpose is. And the only way we're gonna find that is with spending time with God and in his word and journaling and writing notes and read your Bible and then try to see where you can find the character of God in the words and who God is in those words. You can always find God and who he is and what his promises are.
00:34:08
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something and just ask him to show you and it might not happen right away, you know, but if you just Just stick with it, you know and prove to him that you're committed you know, I mean I we when we were watching or listening to that that Podcast with that Sadie. Mm-hmm. And All of a sudden I can't remember the other girls' names. MMA. Yes. She said
00:34:37
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You know, like on YouTube, there's all these like, oh, Christian girl routines. Routines won't last. It's gotta be your commitment. And I loved that. Because, you know, a routine's not, a routine will look different, right? You know, a routine looks different from you and I. And my routine doesn't happen every day because I'm a mom. But it has to be your commitment. It has to be. So if I can't spend time with God in the morning, I have to find little pockets throughout the day to spend time with him because I love him.
00:35:07
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It's so true, and it comes from having really strong faith. And it's the Abraham left just as the Lord told him to do. It's like following God. It says all the people we're talking about, like Noah did the same thing. I think it says Noah did just as the Lord told him to do or something like that. It's following him, and like you're saying, he wants us
00:35:37
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to find that, that time with him. So we know like what car he would drive. And if you don't know what we're talking about, you need to listen to our YouTube video. Yeah, it's pretty cute. Yeah. Yeah. Or what chocolate Jesus would eat or, you know, I don't know what else can we, yeah. I just love that. I love like that little tidbit. Yeah. I'm just wanting to learn more and more about him. Yeah.
00:36:07
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Yeah. Well, and this was one is surrender. Then you want to surrender. Yes. Yeah. The more you get to know him, cause it is scary. Um, if you don't know him and you don't know how good and compassionate and how freeing it is to do. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, you're right. And it's still, I mean, it takes a lifetime, right? Like, like sanctification isn't, it doesn't happen overnight. I mean, even Jesus had to go.
00:36:36
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for 40 days, you know, and Paul, when he went from Saul to Paul, he had to go away and spend time, you know, and he grew. And look at the disciples, like all of, you know, they are just story after story about how they missed the mark and how they grew and how they couldn't see Jesus and what he was doing. But they all started with, we all need to start with faith, because they all started with
00:37:07
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Come with me, I'll make you a fisherman of men. And then they just left. And that took faith to just follow Jesus like that, takes faith. Right. And I didn't understand what that meant at first. And I still am learning. I still have no idea where I'm going and what path I'm taking. Because again, I don't sit with God enough. I don't know who He is enough.
00:37:33
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I don't know. Like I'm sure you feel the same, right? Like at some point we're like, are we supposed to build a boat? Like, you know, and it's, and it's scary, right? Because our expectations are right away. Like I prayed for this and sometimes that does happen. Like right away it does happen. And then like we think in our mind, like that what's going to happen every time. Yeah. And.
00:37:59
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But no, it's not happening for a reason. And we can learn and grow in those times. Because sometimes those times push us away from God. When we can't see, wait a second, look at all, he's done.
00:38:18
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Right. And also, like, do action. Like, in James, it's not just, like, reading it and waiting.
Preparation and Learning During Waiting Times
00:38:26
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Like, in that time, like, what can we do? Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Well, yeah, we're supposed to take everything we have and glorify him. Yeah. Right? Like, where does it say, like, take the best of every of every harvest. Yes. And and use it for his kingdom. And that's what we should be doing in our waiting.
00:38:49
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But yeah, we're supposed to do that in our waiting we're supposed to be getting into the into the word and growing and using that time to Prepare ourselves or let the Holy Spirit prepare us for The purpose that we have yeah Because what he has in store for us is better than anything we we can't imagine right even if it feels like
00:39:14
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like scary and what the heck is happening? Like his plan is better than anything else. Yeah. Yeah. This is good. Yeah. Yep. And we're just thankful that thankful for getting to talk
Next Episode Preview and YouTube Activities
00:39:30
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about this. And next week is going to be amazing. We're going to talk about mothers in the Bible. Um, so special guests. Yeah. Yeah. We have our special guest, Leanna back.
00:39:42
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Yeah, so she's gonna do a YouTube with us. Oh good every week if it's our every on our YouTube we've been doing Proverbs. Yes, and so That she'll be on week four with us. No Proverbs 4. Okay, which will be so much fun. Yes Yeah, and we'll be doing Proverbs 3 this coming up. Yes Wednesday, but on our YouTube channel, you can you can see all of her all of her and
00:40:08
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Videos, they'll definitely entertain you in some way. Yes, they're entertaining for sure. Yes. So we're so thankful and we hope that this gives you hope about that you can surrender to God, surrender your life to God. Yeah, because it's worth it. It's worth it and holding everything in open hands, which is a hard pill to swallow and cold water in your face, but it's worth it. God's worth it. Yeah.
00:40:38
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It's good. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.