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Faith can move mountains
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Moses, with God working through him, is telling the Israelites about battles they will face and rules for warfare. We all faces battles. Mountains that seem impossible. How am I ever going to get through this? We can't on our own! But God shows us the truth through out the bible, that with Him we can face the impossible. The Israelites can face these battles. David can beat Goliath. Faith can move mountains. I talk about these battles, and about how we can focus on God no matter what we are going through.
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Introduction to Finding Hope
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Filling You Up With Hope
Hi, it's Abby from Filling You Up with Hope. I am so glad that you're here, where we go through God's word, we talk about mental health things, and we always find so much hope, because God's word is filled with hope. um So if it's your first time, we go through, um I read four pages of the Bible, and we started in Genesis, now we're in Deuteronomy,
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and I see where God leads me and we focus on those verses and um But you can follow along for next week Where it's Deuteronomy 21 22 23 24 like reading those chapters for you and seeing um where God takes you But this week he took me to Deuteronomy 20 This is faith that can move mountains is what
Deuteronomy 20: Rules for Warfare
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is what it is. And we're just going to talk about warfare and battles, because that's the the heading of the chapter in Deuteronomy 20 with the ver that we the verses we're going to talk about. It's called Rules for Warfare. And the first four verses is is what we're focusing on.
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And and we're we're going to get from it five things to know to face the battles in life. Because we all face battles, right? And in Ephesians 6, it talks about spiritual warfare and how to fight that you know with the shield of faith, right?
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and but there's so much in these verses in Deuteronomy and it took me to different verses throughout the Bible but I think it's going to give you lots of hope and help you with whatever battle that you're facing because we're all facing different battles in our lives.
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So, this is Moses still talking to the Israelites, still preparing them for entering the Promised Land, still haven't entered yet. But there is wisdom that he is imparting on them, God ah obviously working through him.
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And we're gonna take in these things to help us when we're fighting our battles.
Trusting God in Battles
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So this is what we're going through. Deuteronomy 21 through four. When you march to battle your enemies and you see horses and chariots, and a fighting force larger than yours, don't be afraid. who Don't be afraid of them because the Lord your God, the one who brought you up out of Egypt is with you.
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as you As you advance toward the war, the priest will come forward and he will address the troops. He will say to them, listen Israel, right now you are advancing to wage war against your enemies. Don't be discouraged, don't be afraid, don't panic, don't shake in fear on account of them because the Lord your God um is good is is going with you to fight your enemies for you and save you. I mean just taking that in no matter what you're going through that God is going to fight
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your enemies for you. He's going to fight your battles and he's going to save you. And it's just, it reminds me of an exodus when the Israelites are leaving Egypt and Moses tells them the Lord will fight for you. You need only be silent because they're looking back and they see all the chariots. They see all the Egyptians. They see this huge force following them and Moses gives us the key.
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And the key is that God is going to fight for you. Don't get in your own way. Because basically we get in our own way all the time.
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And these tips that we're gonna go through are to help us not get in our own way. I know that I need to take these in so deeply.
Peace in Trials
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um The first thing is like when we're reading this, when you march out to battle, right? So the first thing is that God god knows what's going to happen to you and there are gonna be trials.
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John 1633, I've told you these things so that in me, you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world. like he They haven't even entered the promised land yet, right? And God is telling them through Moses that you are going to be fighting battles.
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And like how scary that must be, right? Because they think that they're entering this perfect land, but things are not going to be perfect. And that's the same thing for us. like We are going to have trials. we are goingnna be We are going to face things. But such a big key.
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yeah that we're going to talk about is taking in that God has overcome the world. Like God has already done it. God is already fighting for us. We need to focus our attention on Him because what happens, this goes to the second thing,
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um What happens is, is that the thing that we're facing becomes a mountain or a giant.
Faith and David vs. Goliath
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And all of this, it made me think about David and Goliath, right? That King David was a little boy and um he had such strong face that Goliath, a huge, huge man, um kind of like a mountain,
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He could face that that mountain. So when we're facing these battles, these mountains, we need to take in that our God is mightier than whatever mountain we're facing, what whatever we're facing. And the disciples, like they struggled with this. They were trying to heal someone in Matthew 17, and they couldn't they couldn't do it.
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They couldn't do it. And this is um how Jesus responds in Matthew 1720. Because you have little faith, he said. I assure you that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to the mountain, go from here to there and it will go. There will be nothing you can't do. So things become like it's impossible. Like this Goliath, this mountain, this battle in front of me.
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It's impossible. It's impossible. This relationship is never gonna be fixed and I'm just I'm trapped. I'm trapped in it um My job is always gonna be this way my family is always gonna be like insert anything that you think is always gonna be this way and we all have something but guess what nothing nothing you shouldn't we need to not have ideas like that about anything because With God, nothing is impossible. And it doesn't mean we're still going to face the trials. They're going to be the things. It's like, wait, God, I've prayed about this a gazillion times. Why is this still happening? Why am I still falling into patterns? like Why is this still happening? Maybe because we need to be focusing on God and not our mountain. We focus on our mountain, our Goliath,
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um all of the time. That's what our brains do. And then the neurons get stuck on on these thoughts, on these negative thoughts. And this leads me um to the next thing.
Breath and God's Presence
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ah When those neurons get stuck,
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we can unsruck We can unstuck them. um they It isn't stuck to be that way, right? but And this is a tip that can help with that, that okay? I'm gonna get there. So so Moses, so going so this tip is about um about deep breathing.
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But how we're getting there is Moses, right? And going back to the verses that we're going through, Deuteronomy 20 in there, Moses reminds the Israelites, don't be afraid because God is with you. And
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It's funny how God takes my brain all over the place, always back to Him. But it reminded me of the song, um Great Are You, Lord. And it says, it's His breath in our lungs.
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So we're not supposed to be afraid because God is with us. It's His breath in our lungs. Connecting to our breath is such a big tip set. There have been so many studies about how deep breathing helps with so many so many different um things.
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right? Any mental health things that you face, if you've been to therapy, um most likely the therapist has probably told you about deep breathing and it's because that's what the studies um point towards, right? That this is something that helps with PTSD, it helps with anxiety, it helps with depression, it helps us get out of our amygdala, the fear center part of our brain, get back in the prefrontal cortex where we're thinking clearly.
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And I think it's because God gave us our breath, and connecting to Him, that is what gives us peace. So no matter what you're going through, taking deep breaths and reminding yourself, like what a gift this is,
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The truth is is that um jesus is that Jesus lives in us, right? When we've accepted Him, when we've repented, when He's our Lord, like this is Galatians 2.20, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. So many times when we face these mountains,
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ah We're connected to the mountains.
Abraham's Faith and Eternal Trust
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We're not connected to His breath in our lungs. We're not connected to that Jesus is resides in us, because guess what? We also have flesh, and we're connected to the flesh and the mountain. I mean, this happens to me all the time. I'm talking to myself. Abby, take this in.
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But m so connecting to Him, not the fleshly world around us, because it's so easy to do that. And just breathing is a reminder of all God has done for us. And maybe trying, even in those deep, dark moments that we face, praising God, praising God.
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Oh, because he is so good and he, like Moses is reminding them, God is with you, the one who performed these miracles, who took you out of Egypt.
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who rescued you, who brought you up from slavery. They were going down in the pit, rescuing you up. He's rescued all of us. And so we really need to train our brains to focus on him.
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And so this leads me to the fourth thing, which is Moses is saying, as you advance towards war, right? So scary. But how are we advancing towards like the the battles in our life? And the different verses that we've talked about, um Matthew 1720 and Galatians 2 20, like all these verses and he and with David,
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with David and Goliath, with these things, what what is the key? It all points towards faith. like what Like what we talked about at the beginning, the shield of faith, um so that you can extinguish the flaming arrows of the evil one.
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so no matter what our faith needs to be so deep that we're not losing the sight of what's important. I lose sight of what's important all the time. And um God reminds us, and I feel like a really powerful reminder, is Hebrews 11, 17 through 19. By faith, Abraham offered Isaac when he was tested.
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The one who received the promises was ah was offering his only son, his miracle his miracle son. He had been told concerning him, your legitimate descendants are going to come from Isaac. Here we go. He figured that God could even raise him from the dead. So his face was so strong and he was obeying God so much, he was he was doing his face was so strong that he knew that God could even raise Isaac from the dead. Like if he had, so that's how strong, like he knew God's might, God's power, and that's how strong his faith was. So is our faith that strong?
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Is our faith as strong as Abraham's? Because no matter what the fear is, we have eternal life with God, right? And we have Jeremiah 29, 11, that he knows the plans and their plans to prosper us and give us hope in a future. And so we need to, when no matter what mountains we're facing,
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it's our It's our faith, our faith knowing things that are unseen, but it doesn't feel unseen because we see it in our mind, our heart, like we know it so deeply, God's love for us, and that we can face these battles with Him.
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And this leads me to the last thing, which is really, really important, okay? The priest will come and address the troops. ah um he And then it goes on, right? he He will say to them, listen, Israel, right now you are advancing to wage war against your enemies. Don't be discouraged. Don't be afraid. Don't panic. Don't shake in fear and account of them.
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Because the Lord your God is going to fight your enemies for you and to save you.
Affirmation and Love Languages
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I'm writing that down. Taking that in so deeply if you're if you're struggling with trust.
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um I think it's so important that we have people that speak encouragement over us. So many times, so some of us um haven't had very much of that in our life, much encouragement.
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and um and it's And we need it, how we're made. right Moses is giving this gift to the Israelites. So they have it in their heart. They have it stored up. And when these face those things, they can remember that Moses said, with God working through him, Moses said not to be discouraged, not to be scared, that God is with us. He spoke.
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words of affirmation. it This took me to The Five Languages of Love, a great book by Gary Chapman that um is powerful. It helps relationships, and it just helps us in general. And one of the languages of love is words of affirmation. some The idea in the book is that we all accept love and and give love right in different ways. And we need to be cognizant of how others, like our partner, receives love. So we're giving them love in a way that they can take in.
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That's the idea. But I think that we all need words of affirmation. And I think the biggest words of affirmation are are in the Bible, right? It's alive and active. where What we're facing, um we can get that and we need to get the encouragement from God's Word. And it's a blessing um When we have people in our life that we can go to when we're facing these battles and they can speak encouragement over over us. It's kind of like in James 3, like blessings and curses come from our like from our mouth and we can speak life
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with our mouths, we can speak life over people encouraging. It's so easy to to not do that, right? And it's hard when we've grown up, when we've gone through life, not getting not getting that encouragement. I just thought that it was so powerful that he that the priest is gonna speak over the troops.
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right before they go to war he's speaking life over them and and it just it just made me think that we can speak life and that's as a therapist like that's what i want to do that's what i want to help people like speak life over them when they're going through things that it's easy to forget this encouragement and and This is a reminder that we need reminders, that we need encouraging
Faith in Facing Life's Battles
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reminders. so reminding How many times am I saying reminding? So telling yourself, um don't be discouraged.
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Even if you've been praying for something um and for a long time, even if some pattern in your has been going on for a long time, no matter what it is, don't be discouraged. Put up your shield of faith and um
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carry it strongly and and be encouraged that God can move the mountains. We can't do it ourselves, but He he can do it. And how it happens is us focusing on Him deeply.
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and Being joyful even when we're facing these trials because we know that he's overcome the world today right now No matter what you're facing and it is it does surpass all understanding because how can we be happy? When we're going through these things like how is that possible? It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense but um our God is amazing so So there is there is this joy deep down, no matter what we're facing.
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And it's just, so we' remind such a thing this week to take in like, let's speak life over each other and encourage each other. Cause you don't know who you're going to help with um the battles that they're facing. A lot of times people keep these battles inside and there might be a war going on that no, not not that many people know about or nobody knows about. And so.
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But speaking, like encouraging people and um and just like what it says, don't be discouraged, don't be afraid, don't panic, don't shake in fear and account of them. That speaking life can take away, can can help with anxiety and can just give us peace.
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And it just, it seems so impossible. It really does. But we have a God who parted the Red Sea, who has, who made us. So I just hope that these tips um that and these verses just help you feel empowered and that No, you can't face these battles. You can't right? They're gonna happen but with God you absolutely can face it and you're gonna get through it and It's because We have the gift of focusing on him
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So I'm just thankful for you and I'm so excited to go through more of this um next week and I'm praying for our country. It's a big week with the election happening soon and I'm just praying deeply for God's will and it's so You know, when we pray for things, we just, our faith needs to be so strong that we know it's his will, right? His, we're praying for his will and we're trusting him that it's going to be okay. So I just pray you have that trust and I will talk to you soon. Bye.