Here’s the gist, human. There are countless scenes in the Bible when someone stopped and laid down a personal affirmation of God’s promise, the Messiah’s purpose, an affirmation of God’s nature, his promises. Moses. Joshua. Daniel. Martha. The woman at the well. The people Jesus healed. The apostle Paul. People who had come face to face with the truth. And proclaimed it. Affirmation of what we believe can do all kinds of things: change our direction, our minds, our decisions. In that moment when we find ourselves turning away, or choosing to sit in our own self-pride, our own pride infested self-talk, or perhaps a paralyzing spiritual stupor. As if we couldn’t remember one of God’s promises, as if we couldn’t recall one phrase that Jesus said, or muster even a mental comma to gain spiritual clarity.

But God knows us. In all of this earthy-ness we live in, he can tame our wild will for his purpose. By leaving our self-talk trail to live within his divine determination to make his home in our mind and heart.

Join us. E182. Spiritual Affirmations Change Your Self-Talk (the power of what God has promised us)

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In Romans 12:2 Paul says,

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode

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Here’s the gist, human. If we spend our daily life ruled by the answers we need from God, our prayers can give in to a self-guided perspective. How lonely. We were not created to be alone. God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden. Until.

A deep prayer life is not complicated. It is contemplative. Prayer is God’s answer before the answer before the answer. His call to come sit with him. Listen to his Word, reflect, respond, and sit in his presence. If the Word became flesh, and Jesus became our Savior then we should bring that Word into our prayer life. Imagine prayer like walking along the road to Emmaus with Jesus and the two men (believers) after he was resurrected, but before he ascended. The moments of silence when all you hear is his footsteps beside you. I want that.

Psalm 71

17 Since my youth, God, you have taught me,

and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.

18 Even when I am old and gray,

do not forsake me, my God,

till I declare your power to the next generation,

your mighty acts to all who are to come.

Join us. E181. When Prayer is Sitting in God’s Presence (the silent footsteps of Jesus beside you)

Faith to Witness 99, motivating us to hear God and share the Shepherd.

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Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode 181 When Prayer is Sitting in God’s Presence (the silent footsteps of Jesus beside you)

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Here’s the gist, human. I find myself growing beyond spiritual ultimatums like “I am at peace” as if peace in God is a static condition. For me peace is a tributary of God’s nature, his spirit running through my heart. And I have to listen for it.

Moving water takes its cue from its Creator. God navigates our choices, our mental roadblocks, our psychological debris from the past, our grief, our fear of failure, our fear of anything, everything. It’s pretty clear. Rivers shape landscapes. This is why God turns our attention to it. So we can more deeply understand how he moves.

John 7:38

38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.

Join us. E180.

Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode 180 Is God’s Peace Running Through You? (peace like a river kind of thing)

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Here’s the gist, human. I miss my dog. I spent the last two years deeply anxious about losing her. I prayed for a circumstance, a manageable outcome, a long runway to losing her, a prolonged exit that would let us down gently into a daily life without her. That didn’t happen.

Truth is, anxiety isolates us from God. That should be an unbearable separation. If I had given my anxiety about losing my wheaten girl to God along the way, and petitioned for his presence, instead of petitioning for an outcome—to give me more time with her, to heal her—I could draw more fully on his presence now.

That is the scope of anxiety across our lives, when it tightens its grip so much so that we are spiritually stalled from preparing for life’s earthly trials.

So I am banging on God’s door, asking God to be my fortress. I petition him to take me in, to fortify my heart in my grieving so I can say “I will never be shaken.”

Join us. E179.

Psalm 62

For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.

1

Truly my soul finds rest in God;

my salvation comes from him.

2

Truly he is my rock and my salvation;

he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode 179 I am Shaken, Lord (I miss my dog)

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Here’s the gist, human. Nothing new here. Who doesn’t have anxiety, who doesn’t work hard to not worry and perpetuate more of it in the process? For so many of us, that is an ongoing rhetorical state of mind. We don’t even need to answer. We know it’s true.

Let’s call anxiety exactly what it is. Let’s name it to God. A petition of the heart. That we take it to him, and let him measure the depth of our anxiety against the scope of its reach in our life. Because our God is sovereign.

Join us. E178.

Philippians 4:6

6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode 178 Are You Captive to Anxiety? (let God be the measure of its depth and scope)

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Here’s the gist, human. The young, ambitious Peter, and the young, skeptical James grew up, spiritually. From baby Christians, eye witnesses of our Savior on earth, to spiritual leaders and two voices that prompt us to grow toward God by living a life that represents his truth on our ground.

The simple scripture-based exercise in e175, e176, and now e177 is meant to call out my faith, your faith and how it is defined by our spiritual maturity in action.

God’s Word illuminates his faithfulness by what I do. There is no substitute for God’s Word. I love immersing in it and letting God’s spirit speak.

My faith is defined by my spiritual maturity in action, his truth on my ground. God’s Word illuminates his faithfulness by what I do.

So I have an answer for how much clearer God needs to be

He is perfectly clear.

And I have a response. Grow up, human.

E177.

2 Peter 1:5-8

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode 177 What is Your Truth on the Ground? (Part 3, Spiritual Maturity, Peter’s parting words)

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Here’s the gist, human. Peter’s first letter is impassioned, truth-seared, and glorious. It comes from his experiences, that he has lived his life trading measure for measure, that what he does in action, will receive a reciprocal spiritual strengthening. That spiritual maturity is embracing the glory-bound spiritual gain of things. His life convinces us of this: that a full investment in our obedience yields the highest spiritual return.

We can’t not hear Peter.

My faith is defined by my spiritual maturity in action, my truth on the ground. God’s Word illuminates my faith by what I do.

So I ask us, “how much clearer does God need to be?

Peter speaks. Let’s listen.

E176.

Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode 176 What is Your Truth on the Ground? (Part 2, Spiritual Maturity, Peter)

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Here’s the gist, human. So James had been sharing the Gospel for 10+ years and Peter for 30+ years at the time they wrote their letters.

What strikes me about these letters is the maturity of James and Peter. They both offer wisdom that comes from one place: living in the middle of hard-fought truth on the ground. How to be obedient, the mind battles that fight us, the attributes of God to lay hold of, and the urgency of every moment, tempered with an assurance about how one should act to walk with Jesus.

Because they both fought hard to establish and sustain the early church on the way, truth and life of Jesus Christ.

They would know.

We should listen.

E175.

James 2:22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.

Faith to Witness 99 Season 3 Episode 175 What is Your Truth on the Ground? (Part 1, James)

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