1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,560
Hey, go church family. Welcome back to our week two podcast. My name is Gilbert. I'm

2
00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,280
here with Pastor Matt Hattabow. Hey everyone. And I'm here with Laura. Hi everyone. Welcome

3
00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:24,800
back Laura. Thank you. So good to be here. Don't we all want Laura to stay? I do. Laura

4
00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,720
is sticking it out through the month and we're thankful. We're really happy and we're really

5
00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:35,240
excited to keep talking and dig deeper into this subject called Trails of Thought. How

6
00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:40,520
have the Grow Group discussions been so far? Have you guys been enjoying them? You know,

7
00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:46,320
we like to hear about testimonies. We like to hear about how things have impacted you

8
00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:52,880
and changed your lives. You know, we mentioned this in the introduction week, but podcasts

9
00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,720
and the subject that we've been talking about has changed Laura's life and that's why she's

10
00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:05,840
sitting here. Yes. What do you, so what helped you get to this place? Listening to the podcast

11
00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:12,640
and digging deeper into the message at Grow Groups and the practical ways that you suggest

12
00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:18,320
and we have to apply them. Like if we do apply them, it will help us greatly. It's an amazing

13
00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:23,480
blessing and it literally changed my life. The way I think, the way I act, the way I

14
00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:31,200
see things. Thank God. It's amazing. You know, I like that you mentioned this thing where

15
00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,480
you listen or you went through the Able series and then something clicked and it's like,

16
00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:41,400
I'm never going to say I'm not able. Yes, that's true. Most of the things that I used

17
00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:47,640
to hear at church, it's not for me. I'm not able to do it. Maybe someone else can, but

18
00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:53,360
it's not for me. That's not what the Bible says about me through the Able message, through

19
00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:59,600
the Able message, Able to, Able, then Able to, and then charged. It's like the three

20
00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:07,480
messages, the theology of the messages together. I can never say I'm not able anymore. I just

21
00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:12,280
can't. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. No, no, it doesn't at all. And it's, it's not what

22
00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:18,040
the Bible says about me. So you know, I love that phrase by the way. Which one? That's

23
00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:23,080
not what the Bible says about me. That's really good. Yeah. If we can get more people ordering

24
00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:29,000
their thoughts like that, which is what we're studying this month and trails of thought,

25
00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:35,600
we'll see a different nation because once you, once you accept, oh wait, what the Bible

26
00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:41,360
says about me is true. It changes what you act, what you say yes to, what you say no

27
00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:47,360
to, what you accept in your life and what you just reject. That's right. That's true.

28
00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:52,080
You know, this is literally what it looks like to renew your mind. That's exactly right.

29
00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:57,720
Romans chapter 12 verse two says that do not be conformed to the patterns of this world,

30
00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:02,480
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. How do we renew our mind? By the, by

31
00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:07,480
the washing of the word. This is, this is what the Bible says. And you know, you, you

32
00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:12,920
took that word. So you took what's enabled, you know, we looked at second Corinthians,

33
00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:17,280
was it nine, eight, it was chapter nine, verse eight. And you took that for yourself and

34
00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:24,120
you said, this is for me. This is me. I see myself in this. I can't see myself any other

35
00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:30,880
way. Exactly. And this is what the, the power of the gospel does. You know, the gospel contains

36
00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,960
power. This is the gospel, right? This is the good news. The good news is that I am

37
00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:40,040
able now and I'm able to do these things. And, and so you take that and you allow that to

38
00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:45,120
sit in your mind and to marinate in your mind and you allow that to just change you to the

39
00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:52,360
point where you don't recognize the old pattern anymore, where, you know, maybe a trivial

40
00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:57,760
example, but this is, this is true about me. You know, there was a point in my life where

41
00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:04,160
the way I would speak was very different to the way I speak now. And, you know, safe to

42
00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:10,720
say a lot, a lot of words, you know, that I was using that I, I won't mention, you know,

43
00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:15,400
a lot of swearing, a lot of this, a lot of just loose talk, a lot of, you know, bad jokes,

44
00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:22,000
whatever, whatever. And the fact is that, you know, it's not that I'm trying so hard

45
00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,720
consistently constantly to not do that. It's just not me anymore. It comes naturally. Yeah.

46
00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,800
It's literally not me. So once you get on a different trail, you go different places.

47
00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,880
Yeah. And when you go different places, it's, it's just different. Everything's different.

48
00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:43,040
The environment's different. And it's really the purpose of our study. That's right. That's

49
00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:49,120
why we are digging into this to renew our minds that I love that phrase washing with

50
00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:54,320
the water of the word, which is from, from the scripture, of course. And the purpose

51
00:04:54,320 --> 00:05:00,680
of our, our study here is, you know, the Bible teaches that we're a three part being. We're

52
00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:06,280
a spirit. We have a soul and we live in a body. We see that in first Thessalonians chapter

53
00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:12,720
five, verse 23. And these three parts are designed to work together. We want everyone

54
00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:19,440
in the Go Church family to learn to allow our spirit to direct our thoughts and to govern

55
00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:27,160
our lives and our actions according to the law of love. That's really good. That's what

56
00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:32,800
we're doing. That's what we want to, we want to see more of, right? We want to see how

57
00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:39,880
our spirit can govern our minds, can govern our thought patterns and eventually lead to

58
00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:45,040
actions that are in line with our spirits. So this is what we've been introducing and

59
00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:54,600
talking about that our, what we believe, you know, changes or, you know, molds what we

60
00:05:54,600 --> 00:06:00,480
think and what we think leads to how we act and what we do with ourselves and how we respond

61
00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:07,360
to what we believe because you can't have true Bible faith without corresponding action.

62
00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:12,680
And so we are, you know, this is what we're looking to do. We're looking to get all of

63
00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:18,240
our beings, spirit, soul and body in line, you know, so we, our spirit is already set.

64
00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:22,560
We're in this place. We want to, we want to, you know, see these character traits develop

65
00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:27,200
in us. We want to go further. We want to know God. We want, and then, you know, and then

66
00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,200
the mind is like, but what if, but this, but that, but you know, different kinds of fears,

67
00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:37,040
different things, different limitations. And then your body is just like ice cream. I'm

68
00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,400
just taking pastor Matt's examples for the last couple of weeks, but our body is just

69
00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:47,960
like lazy play games. You know, I don't know what that looks like for you, but kind of

70
00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:53,680
that's what it looks like for me. And the fact is, you know, my body goes where I tell

71
00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:59,720
it to go. And my mind thinks what I tell it to think. And this is how we need to constantly,

72
00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:05,440
consistently be an act. And this is, this is what we're getting into this week. We're

73
00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:10,160
talking about trails of faith. So last week we talked about trails of fear. So we talked

74
00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:15,960
about what the carnal mind looks like and what the, what the carnal mind takes us down.

75
00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:22,000
And that is the path, the trail of fear. And this, this week we're going to concentrate

76
00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:29,000
on the equal and opposite trail of faith, you know, and what the trail of faith looks

77
00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,720
like. And you know, it might, it might look different to what you think because it does

78
00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:39,540
include your mind. It does include your body. It does include corresponding action. It does

79
00:07:39,540 --> 00:07:43,960
include a whole bunch of things that you may have not seen because you, you, you can be

80
00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,720
in a place where you're saying, Oh, I believe this, I believe that I believe this, I believe

81
00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,540
God's going to do. I believe God said, and then you do the exact opposite of what you're

82
00:07:51,540 --> 00:08:00,140
saying you believe. So there's a point where, you know, we, we need to walk down this trail

83
00:08:00,140 --> 00:08:05,920
and start going further and further and further in order to see, to see these things come

84
00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:10,960
to pass. So the first thing I'm going to ask is, you know, we talked about what is faith,

85
00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:18,800
but let's talk about where faith originates, you know, and, um, Romans chapter, chapter

86
00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:27,280
10, verse nine, I'm just going to, I'm going to pull that up. And it says that if you confess

87
00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,480
with your mouth, the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from

88
00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:37,280
the dead, you will be saved. I think that's safe to say that that is a, um, a good model

89
00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:44,640
of faith and a good example of how to activate faith. But you also see that if you believe

90
00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:51,600
in your heart, you know, our, our faith originates in our heart. What is our heart? Our heart

91
00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:57,160
is our spirit being. So we, like we said, we're spirit, soul and body. Faith originates

92
00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:04,000
in the spirit because our spirit is, is the part of us, the core of us that is connected

93
00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:12,280
to God. And so faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Faith comes when

94
00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:18,000
we hear God speak his word to us. It's not only faith comes when we read their Bible,

95
00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:24,120
but it's faith comes when the Holy spirit reads his word to us, when he reveals his

96
00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:33,400
word to us. And when we see this as truth. So, you know, Jesus says in John 17, 17 that,

97
00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:38,760
you know, Lord, your word is so sanctified them by your truth. Your word is truth. So

98
00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:46,160
your word is truth. When, when that word becomes more real to you than anything around you.

99
00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:51,400
So when you are focused or when you look at the things unseen and the thing that is eternal,

100
00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:56,480
which is the word of God that produces faith, man, that's so good. That's the difference

101
00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:05,240
between receiving and not receiving victory and defeat. When a word becomes more real

102
00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:13,440
to you than what you experience or see around you. That's faith. That's really good. That's

103
00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:19,560
right. And, and faith is not just, you know, faith is obviously based in God. Faith is

104
00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:24,680
obviously based in who he is. Yeah. One, one person said it like this. Faith begins where

105
00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:30,760
the will of God is known. Yeah. You know, you, uh, you might say, well, Matt is a really

106
00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:36,600
nice, nice person. That's a really nice guy. Very friendly. You know what? I, I just believe

107
00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:41,240
Matt's going to come and wash all of the dishes in my house and do all of the laundry in my

108
00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:47,640
house because he's such a nice guy. The thing is I didn't say I was going to do that. I

109
00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:54,240
didn't say I was going to come and, and, and wash the dishes or clean, you know, do the

110
00:10:54,240 --> 00:11:00,080
laundry and I'm not, right? I'm actually not very good at it at all. Uh, you can ask

111
00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:08,120
my wife, but, um, the, the point is that there's a lot of people that they treat the Lord like

112
00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:15,280
that. Well, if he's good, he'll do this, but faith begins where the will of God is known.

113
00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:20,800
So we find the will of God in the word of God and faith, like Gilbert said is of the

114
00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:25,120
heart. It's not something that happens in our body where we, I, oh, I feel something.

115
00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:32,480
I have this feeling of faith. No. Um, I need to think faith thoughts. I need to think faith

116
00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:38,240
thoughts, faith thoughts. No, no. Faith is of the heart and it's a spiritual force. Um,

117
00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:45,360
like, like you said last week, the thing about faith is it begins where God's will is known.

118
00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:51,980
Faith comes not by praying for it, not by earning, not by going to church the certain

119
00:11:51,980 --> 00:11:58,920
number of times, or even listening to this podcast. Faith comes by hearing God's word.

120
00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:06,280
That's right. And, uh, first John five, uh, says that faith is the victory that overcomes

121
00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:13,040
the world and, and goes on to say that it is our faith in Jesus, which is the victory.

122
00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:23,760
So our, our faith is based in who God is, what he said and who he is. So, you know,

123
00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:29,160
uh, I talking about the different things we do at Go Church. One thing we do is, is we

124
00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:35,000
read the Bible together and every single week, someone, uh, it's not only across Go Church

125
00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,800
Beirut, but it's across Go Church in the UK because there are three other Go churches

126
00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:44,480
and you know, we're so happy to be part of something bigger and we all get to read the

127
00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:52,640
Bible together and share, uh, share, share, um, uh, what is it insights. And you know,

128
00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:58,040
every week there's also someone who shares a blog and we have the privilege of reading

129
00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,040
blogs from, you know, people at Go Church Beirut and everywhere else. And Pastor Matt

130
00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:11,000
Beamer actually wrote a blog, uh, about faith as an act. Faith acts, you know, faith acts,

131
00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:17,200
right? Excellent. And it was, it was amazing. And the, the fact like that's so true. And

132
00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,920
that's what we're talking about this, this month, that, you know, obviously if faith

133
00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:26,920
starts in the heart, but it goes further. And when we are, we have faith in God, it's

134
00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:34,240
because he's faithful and he has a, you know, a nature of faithfulness. Like the, the character

135
00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:40,600
that he has and who he is, is faithful. You know, Revelation says that he is called faithful

136
00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,880
and true. That's literally his character. That's literally who he defines himself as.

137
00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:53,200
And I was, I was just like, um, you know, spending time thinking about this, you know,

138
00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:58,720
this is what you would maybe call, you know, meditating on that word or, uh, or whatever,

139
00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:04,080
whatever that looks like. But I was, you know, I was thinking about it and the Lord put in

140
00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:12,960
my heart, you know, faithfulness is a posture, but faith is an act. And what I mean by that

141
00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:19,240
is that if you look at a sprinter and you see them lining up for a race, they posture

142
00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:23,920
up, they get into position, you know, and faithfulness is, is that position you get

143
00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:29,160
into. You're ready to go. You know that you have one mission, one mission only, that you're

144
00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:33,320
going to do what you've set your mind to. You're ready to go. You're, you're standing

145
00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:41,520
there. You're, you're everything in you, like every single muscle fiber is anticipating

146
00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:47,480
the go. You know what I mean? Yeah. But faith is actually the go, you know, faith is actually

147
00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:54,120
the act that you take. It's actually the, the, the action that you take and you keep

148
00:14:54,120 --> 00:15:01,620
taking until you get to the finish line. So there is, so, you know, God is faithful and

149
00:15:01,620 --> 00:15:06,920
because he's faithful, we can count on him. We can have faith in him, but then we need

150
00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,840
to start walking and we need to start acting with his faithfulness. We need to start going

151
00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:15,760
that direction. So faith starts in the heart, but it doesn't finish in the heart. And I

152
00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:23,480
want to, I want to read that, that passage in Proverbs chapter four, verse 20, it says

153
00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:28,200
this, my son, give attention to my words, incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let

154
00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,920
them depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart for their life to those

155
00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:38,280
who find them and health to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence for out

156
00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:45,680
of it spring the issues of life. This sounds like if you pay attention to his word, you're

157
00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:51,360
going to believe what he's saying. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that really reminded me. So faith

158
00:15:51,360 --> 00:16:02,480
is an act. It's where I act like what God said is true. Yeah. And I keep on acting a

159
00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:11,980
great illustration of this. Hebrews chapter 11, verse seven, by faith Noah being warned

160
00:16:11,980 --> 00:16:23,000
of God of things not seen as yet moved with fear, not the kind of fear that we were talking

161
00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:32,560
about last time, but really that word means reverence or respect for God prepared an arc

162
00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:40,760
to the saving of his house by which he condemned the world and became an heir of righteousness,

163
00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:50,880
which is by faith, by faith, Noah being warned of God. So he heard a word from God. He heard

164
00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:58,760
a word from God and that moved him to action. And so in that action, we see faith that action

165
00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:08,040
took more than a hundred years and he's warned of God of things not seen as yet. Imagine

166
00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:18,960
Noah building an arc. This is a huge ship. No, the land, right? It wasn't. Yeah, he built

167
00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:24,920
it near the water. No, no, he's not in Beblos building this. And so Noah is building an

168
00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:32,160
arc. Hey, Noah, what are you doing? I'm building an arc. Okay. What's an arc? It's a big ship.

169
00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:40,800
Great. What's that? Well, me, my family, you, if you want to, and all the animals, we're

170
00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:48,160
all going to get in it because it's going to start raining. Noah, what's rain? And this

171
00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:55,080
went on for a long time. If Noah, you know, at some point, you know, if it doesn't start

172
00:17:55,080 --> 00:18:02,320
raining, Noah can't turn this into a, like a, a decoration in his yard. Right? This is,

173
00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:09,800
this is a huge ship that he's building. Faith is a trail that we're going to follow and

174
00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:17,360
we're going to go a direction, but that direction probably will look odd to the world around

175
00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:25,360
us. The world around us that's all running on the trail of fear. They look at us on this

176
00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:32,480
trail of faith and saying, what's wrong with you? What are you doing? I'm acting like God's

177
00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:39,680
word is true. I'm acting like I believe what he said. I'm not going to let his word depart

178
00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:43,920
from my eyes. I'm going to keep looking at it. I'm not going to let it come out of my

179
00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:48,240
ears. I'm going to keep listening to it and I'm not going to let it come out of my mouth.

180
00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:55,600
I'm going to keep saying what he said. That's really good. If you think about these stories,

181
00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,840
sometimes you take, you take for granted the fact that in that moment, it must've felt

182
00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:09,040
so stupid. Like what are you doing? And that is true. And then what, what is really of

183
00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:15,080
note is the fact that he acted on the word. And this is what we're talking about. Faith

184
00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,920
acts like faith is not fulfilled until there is corresponding action that is taken with

185
00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:28,600
it. So faith acts on the word. Faith acts like the word is true. Faith is not waiting

186
00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:37,680
until sight, senses, or other people say, oh, this is true. Okay. Now, now I'm going

187
00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:45,400
to act on it. Faith acts based on the word. Yeah. And so the mind is not disconnected

188
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:52,440
from this, right? Because faith thoughts lead to faith actions and our whole being needs

189
00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:59,080
to be in alignment for faith to be fully formed and work fully. So our spirit believes the

190
00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:03,840
word of God. Our mind needs to digest what to do about it and our bodies need to go,

191
00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:10,920
right? If none of those things, if none of these things fall in line, then it's not going

192
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:17,120
to be accomplished. Right. And it's, I realized that what I just said is literally our values.

193
00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:22,840
Love grows. I was thinking about it too. Yes. Yeah. Because we, we experienced the unconditional

194
00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:26,240
love of God. It starts in our hearts, but then we grow in that, you know, we renew our

195
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:31,640
minds with that love. We start understanding what it looks like. We start seeing ourselves

196
00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:38,120
and we start filling our minds with the right things. And with that, we're able to now go.

197
00:20:38,120 --> 00:20:46,000
And so this is, this is the next point I want to talk about. So we, this is what faith is.

198
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,520
This is what faith looks like. And there is another element to this that we need to see

199
00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:58,260
or understand to piece this together. That when, you know, when we see do not fear, do

200
00:20:58,260 --> 00:21:03,320
not be afraid, be of good courage across the Bible. We see it countless times, right? It's,

201
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:10,900
it comes up so often and you notice it's a command. Like this is something the Lord tells

202
00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:16,640
us to do not as a suggestion, not as a pat on the back, not as something like encouraging,

203
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:21,440
not as something to make you feel better. He doesn't tell you try. It's a command. It's

204
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:26,480
a command. It's like love your neighbor. Do not fear. It's literally in the same, in the

205
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:32,600
same form, right? The same format. And there is, there is a reason for that. So let me,

206
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:42,720
I want to read this scripture in Joshua chapter one, verse seven and eight. And this is, this

207
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:47,380
is basically what the Lord is saying to Joshua at the beginning of this, of this commission,

208
00:21:47,380 --> 00:21:51,940
you know, and he says, only be strong and very courageous that you may observe to do

209
00:21:51,940 --> 00:21:57,360
according to all the law which Moses, my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the

210
00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:02,560
right hand or to the left that you may prosper wherever you go. This book of the law shall

211
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:07,200
not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in a day and night that you may observe

212
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:12,600
to do them, to do according to all that is in it. For then you will make your way prosperous

213
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:17,760
and then you will have great success. Verse nine goes on to say, have I not commanded

214
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:22,880
you? Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid to not be dismayed for the Lord

215
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:28,120
your God is with you wherever you go. It's a command. It's not a suggestion. This is

216
00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:34,840
directly tied to your success. This is directly tied to the, then you will prosper. You know,

217
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:40,480
there's that clause that God is for you. God wants you to prosper. God wants you to achieve

218
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,840
what he's called you to achieve. He's not messing around here. He wants the results.

219
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:50,720
He needs these results through your hands, but he's giving you the formula to get there.

220
00:22:50,720 --> 00:23:00,720
And we basically see that there are so many examples in the Bible. And so let me bring

221
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:11,560
this up. Why is the Lord commanding Joshua to not be afraid? What's the reason? The simple

222
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:17,360
fact is, obviously, if he's afraid, he's not going to go into the land. He's not going

223
00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:21,400
to challenge the giants that are standing in the way. He's not going to walk up to the

224
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:26,280
walls of Jericho and do what he did. He's not going to cross the river, which is flowing

225
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:31,440
down and at the end he crossed it on dry ground. He's not going to do all those things which

226
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:37,920
seem to not make sense, but this is God's will for his life. So if he had fear, he wouldn't

227
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:43,000
be able to go down the trail of faith that God already ordained and planned for him to

228
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:49,520
walk down. We see so many examples of this across the Bible. There are different examples.

229
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:58,080
So in the New Testament, we see an exchange between Jairus and Jesus. And Pastor Matt,

230
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:03,560
you want to give context to that story? Well, I mean, Jairus is the leader of a synagogue

231
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:11,800
and his daughter is at home very, very ill. We don't know exactly what's wrong with her.

232
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:17,920
We know that she's sick to the point of death when Jairus goes to find Jesus and say, Jesus,

233
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:23,720
will you come and minister to my daughter? And Jesus says, yeah, I'll come. And while

234
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:30,760
they're on the way, the people that are helping Jairus, they come and say, you don't need

235
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:44,240
to bother Jesus anymore. It's too late. And Jesus says to Jairus, fear not, only believe.

236
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:52,440
And they go on to the house and Jesus puts all the people out that are mourning Jairus's

237
00:24:52,440 --> 00:25:02,160
daughters death. And he takes Peter, James and John into the room and he tells this little

238
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:13,880
girl that's dead. Hey, little girl, get up. I say, get up. There's so much there to me

239
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:22,400
because we're talking about acting like his word is true. And think about who you were.

240
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:30,640
I'm just quoting it. You go and read the fifth chapter of Mark for yourself and look at what

241
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:44,760
Jesus said. He goes in that room and he says, little girl, I say, I say to you arise. All

242
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:55,240
the people said she was dead. Natural circumstances said she was dead. Jesus said, I say, you

243
00:25:55,240 --> 00:26:07,320
arise. The Bible says that they took her up alive and said, I want ice cream. Maybe not,

244
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:17,040
but Jesus said, give her something to eat. Yeah. Yeah. I was acting like God's word is

245
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:24,840
true is how we see God's word come to pass in our life. And we're talking about Jairus's

246
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:32,280
daughter, but the centurion in Matthew chapter eight is a great example of this. Matthew

247
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:46,180
chapter eight says verse five, and when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto

248
00:26:46,180 --> 00:26:53,840
him a centurion beseeching him. That's a old English word that just means asking what's

249
00:26:53,840 --> 00:27:03,640
a centurion. The Roman soldier. Rome was occupying the land of Israel and Judea at this time.

250
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:11,080
He's an oppressor, but he comes to Jesus and that word beseeching, it literally means to

251
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:24,280
ask with reverence. He said, Lord, which is a key Romans chapter 10. He said, Lord, my

252
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:32,080
servant lies home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. Verse seven, and Jesus said unto

253
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:41,600
him, I'll come and heal him. The centurion answered, Lord, I'm not worthy that you should

254
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:53,560
come under my roof, but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed. The centurion

255
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,880
goes on. He says, I'm a man under authority and I have soldiers under me. I say to this

256
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:06,120
man, go and he goes to another, come and he comes to my servant. I'll say, do this and

257
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:15,980
he does it. When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said unto them that followed. So he turns

258
00:28:15,980 --> 00:28:23,720
around to the disciples and says, Hey fellas, pay attention. I haven't found faith like

259
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:31,560
this in Israel, which had to be kind of a slap, you know, for the guys. Like, wait a

260
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:38,360
minute, why are we even still talking to him? And I say unto you that many will come from

261
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:46,040
the East and the West. Well, we'll go on. And verse 13, Jesus turns around to the centurion

262
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:53,560
and Jesus said unto him, go your way and as you have believed, so be it done unto you.

263
00:28:53,560 --> 00:29:02,320
And his servant was healed in the same hour. Think about this. The, this man came to Jesus

264
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:08,640
and said, just, just speak the word. Once he could get Jesus to speak the word, he was

265
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:14,080
going to start acting like it was true. He didn't, he didn't have his iPhone with him

266
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:18,800
that he could FaceTime and say, okay, did it, did it change? Is he better? How's he

267
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:28,760
doing? No, he's, he's separated by time and distance from his, from the, from his servant,

268
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:35,480
but he decided if he could just hear Jesus say it's done, that would be enough because

269
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:43,000
the centurion understood that's how things operate. That's how he operates people that

270
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:48,520
he doesn't know that he's never seen gives him orders and he goes and does them. He can

271
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:53,640
say things and he doesn't have to go and make sure it's done because he knows that the people

272
00:29:53,640 --> 00:30:03,400
that he's told will go and do it. If he could get Jesus to say, you servant of this centurion

273
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:09,360
be healed. That was enough. He would just act like it was true. And you know, you made

274
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:15,280
a note here that I really like. It made me, it made me think about this faith, which is

275
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:23,760
a lack of fear keeps our mind strong and focused and governed by the word of God and God's

276
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:30,840
plans above circumstances that would come against us. So this centurion says, you know,

277
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:36,320
we just read it like this. His servant was healed from that self same hour. Well, how

278
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:43,380
do they know that they had to come back and tell this? Hey, it was exactly the same hour.

279
00:30:43,380 --> 00:30:50,720
We worked it out exactly the same hour as Jesus said that exactly that same time. So

280
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:57,040
there's, there's time that passed between Jesus saying that and anyone finding out what

281
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:08,440
happened and in between that time, we know that that centurion was in a place of confidence.

282
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:14,880
He was in a place of, he was on the trail of faith expecting that what Jesus had said

283
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:24,700
was true. He's acting like the word is true. That's so good. Praise God. You know, the,

284
00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:32,320
this is, this is what we're really focusing on and holding on is that the, in order to

285
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:37,960
stay on the trail of faith, we have to keep that command of do not fear. Yeah. You know,

286
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:43,640
and this is, this is where we see in the story, for example, the Roman centurion, for example,

287
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:50,640
Jairus where, where Jesus says, don't be afraid, you know, only belief. This, this, this should

288
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:55,040
almost be our key scripture this month as well, but don't, you know, don't be afraid.

289
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:59,920
Don't go down that trail of fear. Just believe, just stay in that place, stay on this path

290
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:05,760
of faith. And that is the, that is also the trail of success. You know, that is the trail

291
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:12,060
of accomplished faith. That is where, you know, the walk in on that trail of faith leads

292
00:32:12,060 --> 00:32:19,960
to the hope, the substance of things hoped for. So on the trail of faith, we enjoy the

293
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:25,520
substance of what we were hoping for and what we are hoping for. So we have a confident

294
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:30,480
expectation of a good end. That end is now that thing is now, and that is what we can

295
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:39,080
experience on the trail of faith. So we said that, you know, the faith, the lack of fear

296
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:45,840
keeps us on the trail of success. Faith, the lack of fear helps keep us and our minds strong,

297
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:50,760
focused and governed by the word of God, no matter what the circumstances look like, because

298
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:57,400
we stay focused. And we saw that last week in, in Mark chapter four, we saw how Jesus

299
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,920
was focused on the other side. He wasn't focused on the storm. He wasn't focused on the circumstance.

300
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:08,120
He wasn't focused on, you know, being accused that he doesn't care. He wasn't focused on

301
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,120
any of that. He was focused on, I need to get some sleep. I'm tired. We're going to

302
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,200
get to the other side, whether the storm likes it or not, whether the circumstances like

303
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:21,520
it or not, we're getting there because I have some work, you know, to do there. My father

304
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:27,760
has ordained work for me to do there. And there's another, there's another point that I want

305
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,400
to talk about before we get into the Bible illustration. And this is actually linked

306
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:37,040
to the Bible illustration, but you will notice that the trail of faith doesn't always make

307
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,960
sense. That's right. And you know, some decisions you take by faith because you're convinced

308
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:48,320
about the word of God don't make sense in the natural, like there are things that seem

309
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:58,240
irrational or illogical, but that is on the trail of faith. That is literally what the

310
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:05,200
trail of faith looks like. And Hebrews 11 is called the hall of faith, right? This is

311
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:12,480
the story after story after story of models of faith who acted on the word that they believed

312
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:18,140
on. So the example of Noah, you know, he acted on the word. It didn't make sense. Like if

313
00:34:18,140 --> 00:34:22,880
you were just living in the day and you were focused on the things you see, so your eyes

314
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:29,160
are looking at the flesh, the carnal, the temporary, like we've seen building a boat

315
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:34,200
makes no sense whatsoever. If you are, if you're looking at Moses and he, he, he was

316
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:42,840
brought up in a palace and he is literally, you know, viewed and seen as a member of the

317
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:49,400
royal family. And he denies all of that. And he refuses to be called that because he wants

318
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:55,840
to be seen with his people because he believes his people are going to be taken out of this

319
00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:02,880
place of slavery. It makes no sense. If you see the story of Abraham and Sarah, God said

320
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:08,160
that I'm going to have a child. So my name is no longer Abraham. My name is Abraham,

321
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:15,200
the father of many nations. And I still don't have a child. It makes no sense. But the fact

322
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:28,040
is they, you know, there is, um, there is a trail of faith and it might not look sensible.

323
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:34,160
Yeah. I mean, that's a, I think that that's an important thing to understand when the

324
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:39,800
whole world is going one direction and you turn around and go the opposite and start

325
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:45,240
acting like God's word is true. It'll look, if you look at, if you're looking at it from

326
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:56,160
the world's perspective, it will look weird or, you know, ill informed, um, about, let's

327
00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:04,800
see, that would have been about four months, five between four and five months before I

328
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:19,440
found out about the first opportunity to come to Beirut. I found out about a great job opportunity.

329
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:28,080
It was an opportunity to do what I was already doing, but we paid more and work closer to

330
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:37,200
where we lived. So, um, the, I mean, there was no, there was nothing bad about it. It

331
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:47,240
sounded amazing. It looked amazing. Um, but on the inside I knew I shouldn't apply. I

332
00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:58,840
shouldn't do this. So, um, but I, man, I have responsibilities. I have a family. Trenton

333
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:05,720
and Caitlin were little at that time. You know, um, this is, this is a good opportunity and

334
00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:15,520
you know, wisdom, I should, you know, wisdom would say I should take this. Earthly wisdom.

335
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:22,440
Earthly wisdom says I should take it. And man, I, to be honest, I really struggled with

336
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:31,600
it. So, uh, I went to a church. We were, uh, at the time we were attending a Ramo Bible

337
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:42,800
church in Oklahoma city and, um, pastor Hagen was, uh, ministering and can I be honest?

338
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:51,600
I wasn't listening. I was instead in my head trying to figure out which trail I should

339
00:37:51,600 --> 00:38:00,000
take. And I was thinking, Hmm, I don't know. This job looks pretty good, but there's something

340
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:06,720
on the inside that says I shouldn't do this. I shouldn't go. And while I'm like going back

341
00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:12,480
and forth, back and forth, back and forth, he stops his message and he said, I don't

342
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:21,640
know who this is for, but someone in here is, you're looking at an opportunity and it

343
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:28,560
looks really good. And you think you've looked at it and everything about it looks good.

344
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:34,480
He said, this is what the Lord says. If you take that, you'll miss what he has prepared

345
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:44,680
for you. Well, I didn't know what that Hill he has prepared for us. What I knew was what

346
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:51,020
I could see, what I could feel, what I could taste and touch. And the fact was this just

347
00:38:51,020 --> 00:38:58,480
makes sense. This is a really good thing. And now my pastor is correcting me. He didn't

348
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:06,000
call me out. He didn't come out. Thank God. He just said it. And then he said, okay. And

349
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:12,400
then he kept going with his message. Now, okay, wait a minute, Lord, I think you're

350
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:24,480
trying to tell me something. And so I didn't go for that. And it was just a number of,

351
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:29,760
really a number of weeks later, I found out about the opportunity to come to Beirut. And

352
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:34,000
when I look at, I look back on it now, I realized that if I had taken, this was an executive

353
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:40,840
level position. If I had taken that job, not only, it's not a matter that I couldn't have

354
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:48,080
went, I wouldn't have. Like I wouldn't even have had, I wouldn't have been available to

355
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:56,360
go to come to Beirut for that first trip in 2015 because I would have just been starting

356
00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:02,560
this new executive position. I've got responsibilities now at this corporation and I've got to do

357
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:10,680
these things. What it looked like at the time didn't make sense, but I'm so glad. I'm so

358
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:17,720
glad that I was in, from our last month, I was in a position to be corrected. I was in

359
00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:28,880
a place where I could grow and be shaped. And ultimately, the Lord helped me to act

360
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,120
like what His word was saying was true.

361
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,760
We're so grateful.

362
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:37,760
Praise the Lord.

363
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:44,040
Well, we are direct beneficiaries of the right decision you took.

364
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:50,760
The Lord is helping us all. But I mean, we can share a lot of examples, your personal

365
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:58,760
story, which we've shared before. There are cases where when the Lord is prompting us

366
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:05,200
to do things, to act like His word is true, if you judge by the natural, sometimes, very

367
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:13,880
often, it will look like this is foolish. But it's foolish according to man's wisdom.

368
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:20,320
But that's what Paul said, I'm going to use what man calls foolish to confound what the

369
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,880
world calls wise.

370
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:29,120
That's so good. That's the kind of Bible illustration that we're going to talk about in our group

371
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:33,600
groups. And I just want to introduce this real quick because we're already out of time.

372
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:40,640
We're far out of time. But it's the story of Joshua. And actually, before we started

373
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:46,440
recording, Pastor Matt and I were just talking about Joshua and how amazing, what a model

374
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,320
of faith he is, what an example of faith he is.

375
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:56,840
Joshua was basically one of the 12 spies that Moses had actually sent into the promised

376
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:05,480
land. And we know that story from the book of Numbers in chapters 13 and 14. And 10 of

377
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:11,040
those spies came back with a bad report. Oh, there's giants in the land. They think we're

378
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:15,640
grasshoppers and they have this image of us and we're terrified and we're not going to

379
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,720
make it and we're all going to die.

380
00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:23,080
Then there were two, there was Joshua and there's Caleb, and they had a good report.

381
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:27,280
They said, their defense is already gone. They're already departed from them. The Lord

382
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:32,640
has already given us this land. Let's go and we can possess this. We can do this. Obviously,

383
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:39,640
that didn't make sense in the natural. They were smaller than those giants. But in faith

384
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:49,320
view or in faith sight, God already promised them that land. And so we see that that didn't

385
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:53,720
happen. The whole generation of Israelites didn't make it to the promised land because

386
00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:59,400
of their own wrong trail of thought. We're not really, we can talk about that in the

387
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:09,680
girl groups, but there, you know, after Moses died and Joshua took over, we see faith story

388
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:17,600
after faith story. I'm sorry. I meant faith success after faith success after faith success.

389
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:24,400
And that's, you know, that is, that starts with that verse that we read about the Lord

390
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:31,080
commanding him. Be strong, be courageous, do not be afraid. You know, keep that word

391
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:35,680
in your mind, keep that word in front of your eyes. Do not depart from that word. Meditate

392
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:42,680
in that word day and night. Then you will have great success and you will be prosperous.

393
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:48,800
And so we're going to look at one of those faith stories. And that is in Joshua six,

394
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:54,440
that is the story of when the Israelites get to Jericho and when there are, you know, the

395
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:59,600
walls of Jericho are standing in the way of God's promise to them and what actually happens

396
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,600
there. And the kind of questions and the kind of discussion we're going to have is what

397
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:09,920
did God initially tell Joshua? Was it logical or was it illogical according to the world?

398
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:15,560
Did Joshua obey and what was the result of the fact that he did obey? And we're going

399
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:21,640
to see, you know, we're going to dig deeper about what the trail of thought, which was

400
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:27,120
the trail of faith looked like in that situation. And I'm really excited about the discussion

401
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:32,440
and you know, there's a lot more to discuss and you can pick out tons of stories about

402
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:40,400
the faith successes of Joshua because he had, how do you say it? He had the mind of God.

403
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:46,600
He had a God minded mentality where God said, I'm going, this is going to happen. I'm getting

404
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:53,120
to the promised land no matter what. You know, there is, it doesn't matter if there are walls

405
00:44:53,120 --> 00:45:00,800
in the way or rivers in the way or the sun setting in the way, God said, so I'm going.

406
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:06,640
And he went down that trail of faith and he had victory after victory, after success,

407
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:11,600
after success. And this is what we can expect to find on the trail of faith. We can expect

408
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:17,420
to find victory after victory, after success, after success, but it starts in your mind.

409
00:45:17,420 --> 00:45:26,480
It actually starts in your mind. The point where God told him and him acting, the thing

410
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:33,680
in the middle is his mind and is our mind. And that is what we are looking to renew over

411
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:38,680
the course of this month. So with that, we're out of time.

412
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:49,040
Yeah. But our, our, our message here, I want to just repeat this, your mind, my mind, it's

413
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:56,880
ours and it's a lie to say, why I can't control what I think about. Yes, you can. And that's

414
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:03,280
what we're working on through this series. You can, you can control what is in your mind.

415
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,800
You are able. Yes, you're able. That's right. We're able

416
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:13,520
to think on things that the Lord says that we're to think about. That's a, that's a verse

417
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:19,600
from Philippians chapter four, and we're able to stay on the right trail. And if you made

418
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:24,240
it this far in today and haven't heard, we love you and we're praying for you. God bless

419
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:29,360
you. Thank you for listening to this message. We

420
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:34,120
want everyone to experience the unconditional love of God, grow in his love and go with

421
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:38,560
his love to the rest of their world. We invite you to connect with us at one of our groups

422
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:43,560
for our next gathering. And if no one told you yet today, we love you and believe God's

423
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:59,560
very best for you.