The NXR Podcast - January 06, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Living From Faith

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Charles Spurgeon
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Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

147.6

Word count

967

Sentence count

18


Summary

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What if God intended in his sovereignty to pour out blessing this year on our church? What if He intended it in our family, in our homes, and in our communities? Would we be prepared for that blessing?

Transcript

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00:00:39 God bless.
00:00:41 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,
00:00:44 but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:47 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:52 Faith is what we are called to set an example in
00:00:55 for the believers.
00:00:56 speech conduct love and faith as we set an example in faith it means that we must be
00:01:05 ruthless towards our own sin including the sin of fear and this is why we tolerate fear or i
00:01:14 should better say this is how we often seek to justify the sin of fear we place fear under the
00:01:23 thin veil of wisdom see both fear and wisdom are future oriented whereas something like despair
00:01:31 it could be that you are despairing even of life because you see no light at the end of the tunnel
00:01:35 you're looking toward the future and say that there's no hope to be found but very often
00:01:40 things like depression things like despair it's this it's this overwhelming dissatisfaction with
00:01:46 the present but anxiety is always oriented toward the future anxiety is this constant incessant
00:01:56 sense of dread and impending doom about what might happen tomorrow Charles Spurgeon once said
00:02:07 that anxiety does not rid tomorrow of its trouble but it rids today of its joy
00:02:17 now here's what wisdom does right the proverbs look to the ant thou sluggard and be wise
00:02:27 now what does the ant do the ant prepares for the future there is a sense in which preparation for
00:02:36 the future is wise and there is a sense in which storing up for the future without faith is fear
00:02:45 there is a fine line this is what i'm saying there's a fine line between wisdom and fear
00:02:50 and we must be ruthless with ourselves how often have i in my own personal life in my family as a
00:03:00 leader in my home as a leader in this church how often have i put something underneath the
00:03:06 category of wisdom that was really rooted in fear my family my wife my daughters this church
00:03:14 you brothers and sisters need men like myself and others to lead from faith and not fear you know
00:03:23 what faith does faith is future-oriented also see fear prepares for the worst and it believes that
00:03:30 the worst will come about that's what fear does fear is future-oriented but it's future-oriented
00:03:35 in in the worst case possible scenario it assumes suffering it assumes devastation it assumes
00:03:43 destruction faith also looks forward with wisdom and it assumes victory it assumes success and i'm
00:03:53 not talking about prosperity gospel 58 million dollar jet plane i'm talking about christ is
00:03:59 returning we know the end of the story we win now we win often through suffering but we win
00:04:08 see fear will cause leaders to prepare their families and their churches and their communities
00:04:18 for a worst case scenario but i was just thinking about this and just praying about this
00:04:25 over the last few weeks what if god in his sovereignty chose to pour out blessing would
00:04:33 we be prepared for that see faith prepares in wisdom for the worst to a point but then it
00:04:43 it stops and it rests and it trusts and it doesn't prepare for the worst at the cost of preparing for
00:04:52 the best what if God intended in his sovereignty to pour out blessing this year on our church
00:04:59 what if God intended brothers and sisters this year in 2020 to pour out something in your family
00:05:05 in your marriage with your children with with your vocation that was good would you be prepared for
00:05:10 that or have you only been a slave to incessant worry about what if something bad takes place
00:05:17 that is a false view of your heavenly father lead from faith live from faith not fear set an example
00:05:29 for the brothers in faith are we setting an example for faith or are we leading in such a way
00:05:36 and living in such a way and and have a theology and a perspective of God in such a way that when
00:05:42 people look at our lives they just you know how some things are taught and some things are caught
00:05:47 i know that's kind of a cliche and it is a cliche but there's some truth to it there are people
00:05:51 catching an infectious disease from us that the more time they spend around us and they see the
00:05:56 way we live and they see the way we lead they begin to just assume bad things are always going to
00:06:02 happen or or do they actually grow in faith and assume that it might be god's intention for things
00:06:11 to flourish, for things to grow, for good things and blessing to also happen. Thanks so much for
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