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00:00:00 John Murphy

This is the Rock House Center podcast and I'm John Murphy.

00:00:03 Beth Murphy

And I'm Beth Murphy.

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Our podcast today is entitled God isn't testing you.

00:00:08 Beth Murphy

The reason we're bringing this up today, and devoting a podcast to it is because it's so very common and so very damaging to believers to have have the notion that or just have a wrong view of God.

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There are various versions of that, but it's always causing suffering.

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We certainly see it a lot with our clients here at Rockville Center.

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And that includes not just any believer, but even believers who have been in full time ministry.

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Or maybe they, their pastors, pastors, families.

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They know what Scripture says.

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They know the truth about God intellectually, but there is a disconnect in terms of what they realize they're actually believing to be true.

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About him and then they begin to realize all the suffering that comes from that, and so we want to circumvent that by getting a focus on the truth about God and that he is not testing you.

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Yeah, I'm really glad we're talking about this today because I just have run into too many people who will speak about something they're struggling.

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With and they will sort of frame it in the OR actually say the words like guts testing me.

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For instance someone who has a disease or has some significant problem.

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Their sort of concluding statement in their their summary of the situation is that God is testing them.

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The thing that that we really have to get after here is that that's a lie, and it is wrongly.

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Positioning God in our minds, and when he is wrongly positioned.

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As someone who tests us who throws evil at us, who brings us challenges?

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Who's trying to mature us through suffering?

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All of these lies have been propagated throughout Christianity across the board, whether it be people in the Pew or people in the pulpit, it doesn't matter.

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There is this underlying thing, and it's interesting because I think a lot of times the theology doesn't support it.

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But there's something going on in the heart that has caused them to have this belief about him and I think it's important to address it because it's causing a lot of suffering to approach life this way.

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What we've seen in everyone's life is that we we bring a belief about God into our faith and into the way in which we read Scripture.

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And so it becomes a situation where we have a view of God by the way in which he was represented to us, commonly by our parents.

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The people who were the ambassadors of God to us.

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The we think of parents as the representatives of God, the people with divine authority in our lives.

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And of course, they're humans.

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They're flawed and they were parented by flawed people and there are things that get into our thinking about God not being a protector or God not being safe or.

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Loving can't be counted on and can't be trusted to meet my deepest needs and it kind of morphs or develops into then believing that he either maybe allows or even straight out causes evil and suffering in our lives.

00:02:54 John Murphy

Yeah, the important thing about this lie is that it is. That's the truth of who God is. This the basis of our peace and I just want to go through this scripture quickly. It's second Peter 1/2 and this is the amplified verse.

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And it says, May grace God favor and peace, which is perfect, well, being all necessary, good, all spiritual prosperity and freedom, from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts.

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That's pretty complete.

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Kind of covers the whole range there.

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Yeah, good definition of peace.

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Yep, to be multiplied in you so make Gray Scotts favor and peace be multiplied in you in the full personal, precise and correct knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

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So obviously it works with the strategy of Satan for us to believe lies about God, that that cuts us off from peace. God is about bringing us peace, Satan's about tormenting us.

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So this this statement really clearly defines how critical it is that we have a correct impression of God.

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So when we find ourselves with these questioning thoughts about God, wondering if he is causing bad, allowing evil or testing us, then we want to back up and realize that we've attributed some.

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Often some Hume.

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Characteristics to God and commonly bad human characteristics of God, maybe even directly lining up to experiences that we had on our own lives and the ways in which God was represented to us, and that gets, in a sense, kind of smeared onto God's character, and it's in direct conflict with certainly scriptures like that second Peter Scripture.

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In terms of.

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The statement of fact that our peace comes from the correct and precise knowledge and understanding of God and Jesus our Lord.

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And then you can look at many other scriptures, of course, about his tenderhearted mercy's that the first Peter Scripture in five, seven of how he cares about you tenderly and affectionately cares about.

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Everything that's a burden to you.

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He wants to take that burden.

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The understanding and the picture of God.

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The more.

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Sort of like as the scales tip in trusting God.

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What we see with our clients is the more they move in the direction of believing the truth about him and living in that truth and trusting him.

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Those misinterpretations of scripture begin to diminish, and they start realizing those things they've used to try to prove bad characteristics about God they don't think.

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Those scriptures prove that at all anymore, and the questions and the questioning of God goes away.

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Yeah, I think you've got a really great scripture that I think would be good time to go ahead and read it.

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That speaks to understanding and bringing clarity, and this the absolute statement of if you are experiencing evil, it is not coming from God.

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I think it's a really important scripture.

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It's the.

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It's the scripture in James one the 13th verse that says that God doesn't tempt anyone he can't tempt anyone with evil.

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He doesn't have any of it in him.

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He can't tempt others, doesn't tempt and and there or try us, there are translations of that verb that are also test, so he doesn't.

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Tempt or test or try us because that's not in his character.

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He is not able to do that, and so that's pretty foundational.

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If you start looking at God that way, then it causes you to start realigning your thinking and questioning.

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Maybe there's something wrong with the way I'm viewing God.

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As opposed to thinking that there's something wrong with God and that he's unkind, untrustworthy can't be considered safer.

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Loving if we're thinking those kinds of thoughts about God, or that he's tempting or trying me, then we want to begin to question and present to the Lord.

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What's wrong with my thinking?

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Please line my thinking up with truth of who you are and what your your scripture says about you.

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There are several stories in the Old Testament that really speak to the relationship with the Lord and what he's trying to do.

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I think one of the most important ones that people commonly reference is the Abraham and Isaac example where Abraham was told by the Lord to take Isaac and sacrifice him.

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As it turned out, Abraham went all the way to the point of raising his knife over Isaac.

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To actually sacrifice him for the Lord and the Lord said, stop the message from the Lord was I just wanted to make sure that you love me more than you love?

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So it was a test of of Abraham's heart and then the RAM was in the Bush to take the place to substitute for Isaac.

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So there was no evil actually brought about in that test.

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Some people want to put that out as our interpret that as a test that where this is God doing something evil.

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Well, if you think about it, nothing evil actually occurred that was simply.

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Trying to test where it was that Abraham was in his heart relative to God and Isaac, he wanted to make sure that he loved him more than he loved Isaac, but ultimately there was no evil there.

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It was simply a test, and so we have to understand that is an example of a test, but it wasn't about God.

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Perpetrating evil to gain the understanding that he wanted about the condition of Abraham's heart.

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If we back up and look at many circumstances in our own lives, we start realizing that life tests us.

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There are many ways in which things get thrown at us, suffering in trials, and those are opportunities for God to work in our hearts for us to allow him to work in our heart.

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Parts and use that as a life test to bring us closer to him.

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So different kind of a concept to begin to look at the origin of the test being the suffering in life, the trials of life as opposed to being something perpetrated by God.

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Yeah, I think it's important to recognize that the world tests us.

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God doesn't, but every time the world challenges us, it is a test to determine where are we going to go.

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With the challenge and sometime I might be a test of some sort of sin challenge, or it might be a test of some sort of life difficulty.

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Where are you going to go with those things in the moment of the sin test?

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Am I going to honor God in that, or am I going to give into the world pressure in the moment of the life challenge or the difficult thing that comes along?

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Am I going to glorify God in the middle of that?

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Or I'm going to buy into all of Satan's lies about the situation.

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And so David, at Ziklag is a great example of.

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Seeing that in Scripture in first Samuel 30 in the sixth verse where it was a bad situation and David experienced despair, he came back with his band of warriors and and found their entire town burned to the ground.

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All their wives and children have been kidnapped and all their possessions stolen and the the men.

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Despaired and turned to stone him, which I presume meant stone him to death.

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It's usually what that ended up being, and so in that moment David had a choice about what to do, and we know where his mind typically went.

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He was a warrior, and his.

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His flesh would instinctively go to going after the plunderers.

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The kidnappers going after the evil people and pursuing them, but that's not really.

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Responding to the threat of these people who were now going to stone him, he knew how to respond to these people.

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He was pretty good with a sword and he probably would have had some pretty good outcome there, or he probably would have had a fairly bloody outcome there and he would have been trying to defend himself.

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But the but so the moment at which David felt that despair and looked into the eyes of those 300 people, the question was, what is he going to do at that point?

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What he did was that he strengthened himself in the Lord.

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He brought the Lord into the context of the moment and was able to gain peace in in in that process.

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And what I think he did was he.

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Simply talked about how much God loved him, talked about the history that he had in his life with God, that his life does not, his life, his life is not going to be concluded at this moment that there's a relationship here that he's not by himself.

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In dealing with this moment, he's not in isolation.

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That's one of the interesting things if we don't go Lord then we stay in isolation and then we operate.

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Of our despair or whatever it is, and we basically are doing whatever is.

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Satan wants us to do in the moment, but what David did was he brought the the front the full reality of his relationship to God into the context of that moment, and he was able to have peace.

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And then he sought the ephod.

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And he asked God what to do next and then God.

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To deliver him.

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And from there God directed him to get his stuff back and he got all of his stuff back plus a whole lot more.

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And the situation was restored.

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So that's a really important situation to see that some would say that God tested him, that God brought about the evil that God brought about the loss that he brought about the discontent.

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And the anger, and the despair. And the 300 people who wanted to stone him and I think it's a wrong interpretation.

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The correct interpretation is this life situation brought about this this this life challenge brought about this situation brought about the despair and it was in that moment where.

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It was going to be a test of where David was going to go in that moment.

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Was he going to go to God or respond to his despair and the pressures of the world and the three people?

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300 people staring him, staring him down with rocks in their hands. It's so interesting that after that experience was when David moved into in two sections he took over his kingship in one big section and they took over the rest.

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Ben became King of Israel.

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And it's so interesting that the context is in terms of scripturally, how tight that is, that it seemed to me as I read through it, that this situation really show that no matter what happened to David, we know we had failings in the future.

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But God was clear that David propensity was going to be to look to him whenever he had a challenge, and that was.

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That was the heart that he could trust to rule over Israel.

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And that's a really profound way of introducing that concept, and it makes me think too of of just your personal situation that we can probably also get into here.

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But you know, in that course in with David, we see that so many times in Psalms there's that dramatic story.

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Right?

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But then it's just.

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The way his character is revealed.

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As he may cry out in despair that he was being hunted or chased, or living in caves and wondered if God was abandoning him or whatever.

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But he came around to acknowledging that, no, that can't be true.

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Praising God worshipping him.

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And of course we know from other scriptures.

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The first Philippians scripture about.

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Well, in the first verse of of Philippians that God is the one who's faithful to complete the good work he's begun in US.

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And then in the second chapter where it talks about working out your salvation with fear and trembling, it then goes on to say, after a daunting description of what that means and you think how you could never do that, then it goes along to say but.

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Not in your own strength, of course, for it is God who is all the while effectually at work with first to give you the will, then the desire to obey.

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And so in these things, as we're we're thinking about, well, I could never do what David did, I could.

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I could never respond well to that test or what Abraham did.

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Well, neither could they, but their heart is seeking God.

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That's our place is to pursue God, to seek him, and let him work in our hearts and empower us.

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And of course, it's all back to him.

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It's all he gives us the desire in the 1st place.

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Then he gives us the strength and the ability to obey.

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Yeah, I've often thought in that scripture about he gives us the energy and the desire that what he gives us is a love for him.

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And it is, and that's what energizes.

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It's our desire to please him and to connect with him and honor him for all that he has done in all the ways in which he has loved us.

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And so it is obviously that any movement that we have towards God in difficult situations are going to be because we are responding out of God's love. That's in us for him. I think that's so people need to understand that this is not something we're.

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Going to wrestle up in our own strength that as we accept the Lord's love and we love him and return it.

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We desire to please him in our lives, that there is energy and there is desire in that and the rest of the scripture is to please and to delight in him to do his work.

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Those things come from energy, he gives us, but at the foundational energy is love.

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So the I think just to take a quick minute to get into my personal story is another version of count of a test scenario where and this hopefully doesn't stir up too many bad memories for you, but there's not really a lot of good memories in the first part of this story, and I'm talking to Beth here because what happened was that I got a liver infection and I was in really bad shape.

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They ended up in the hospital at the same time I'm out flat or no.

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Actually, I'm out curled up because I'm in so much pain I can barely stand it.

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I'm sort of in fetal position in this bed and nobody can figure out what's wrong with me.

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Beth goes through her own back problems and she's laying down beside.

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I don't know if you're on the floor on the couch, against her on the couch, yeah, so we were all knocked out.

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I was on in the hospital room.

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No resources, there wasn't really.

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Kids weren't around to at that.

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They were young.

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At that point they were going to come in and rescue us, so we were pretty much on our own.

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But the thing that occurred to me while I was.

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While I was in the bed in so much pain and wondering if this was going to kind of be the end of John Murphy, God really put in me this really bizarre thought which was to praise him in the middle of the.

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Whole thing and my response was, well, that is really an unusual thought, but you know, I kind of like it because if I die then I'm going to be stepping into the Kingdom praising God.

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And that's a pretty good deal in either way, no matter what happens, it's going to be really frustrating Satan.

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I'm kind of telling him to # sand because I'm going to be glorifying God right in the middle of the tainted world.

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Trying to Take Me Out.

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So I actually it kind of appealed to me.

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Ultimately, when I had some time to process on it, that desire was really something I feel like God gave me and it was a situation where I was able to.

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First think about pray songs and whisper them and then ultimately seeing them and interesting that I really was not able to come up with much more than the doxology.

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So I just kept singing the doxology over and over again.

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The outcome was that I got healed, but no particular speed to that and I got healed as quickly as people would get healed from that sort of thing, there wasn't any particular physical manifestation.

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That would show that God came through and honored the praising of him through some physical thing.

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Although I did get healed ultimately, so I give him credit.

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The whole process of healing is his, so he does.

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At that, but the main thing that happened was that I got closer to God in a really unique way, and it was so interesting the scripture that talks about how God redeems those things that Satan is meant for evil.

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For those who know him and love him, and the outcome was definitely a sense of connection with him at a deeper level.

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We all are built to need more of God and then out of this situation.

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The redemption that God brought to the situation was more of him.

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So we're built to need more of him and it was, and that's what I got out of it.

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And after all of the healing was done in months later, there definitely was a sense of assurance and connection with God that I never had before.

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And that was his redemption of that.

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So that was another sort of a version of the test.

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God didn't make me sick.

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He didn't give me a liver infection, but out of trusting him.

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And out of the stirring.

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From him, it turned out to be a situation where I had the choice to roll into despair and to give in to the bad situation with not much hope on the horizon or I was given an opportunity as a suggestion to honor him and to praise him in the midst of it.

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And it was a good outcome, so I don't believe God gave me that.

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He didn't test me, he didn't.

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He wasn't trying to do that.

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To mature me, but he used the situation to bring me into a deeper relationship with him.

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So at Rockhouse we talk about the boot camp of life and how there are plenty of opportunities and we we all know that to be true.

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There's all kinds of suffering and loss, and things that we don't see coming that seem to just sort of come around the corner and take us by surprise in a bad way.

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Of course, in a good way as well too.

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But in the context.

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Stuff the struggles of life.

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There are plenty of those and they do test us and they do try us, but our perspective on those things.

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If we look if we realize that God is right there with us locked arms with us elbow to elbow right there, ready to comfort us, guide us direct us through the presence of his Holy Spirit in us.

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And that he absolutely promises a foundational promise.

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Is to use everything together for our good and his glory, for for the good of those who love him and for his glory and the enormity of that promise really can't be fully stated, because it's everything and it's what's John.

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Just said a minute ago.

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The redemption is more of him.

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It's not necessarily.

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Getting the outcome that we want or the are things going the way we want them to go because they may not.

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But in the midst of that, getting more of him, it's like we experience it, sort of like a spiritual promotion in a sense.

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Like you go to a deeper place with the Lord from which you never go back.

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You know it's just that deep place that place where you really want to live with him.

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He's taking us to a new place as a result of the suffering, which is what?

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The redemption of the suffering is all about.

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In the first moment in which we lock arms with the instead of locking arms with God, but lock arms with the lie that this could be from God, then where do we go?

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We don't have hope we don't have.

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I mean, if we think this is from God, how is it that we're going to think God guys going to give us hope in it?

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It really disrupts our ability to relate to him and to rely on him, and he's very clear that he wants us to cast all of our concerns on him.

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But if we are believing that he is the source of the problem, then that's going to be pretty much impossible to do.

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It doesn't make any sense, and there's a great scripture that talks about that.

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First, Peter 57 says casting this is also amplified.

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Casting the whole of your care, all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns once and for all on him, for he cares for you affectionately and cares about you.

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Watchfully it's not consistent in any way to believe that God is bringing about challenges and tests on us while he's saying he wants us.

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To cast all of his cares on him.

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Those two things don't go.

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Together, so I think the best thing to do at this point is offer an opportunity to pray for releasing these things.

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Releasing the wrong beliefs about God.

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That can be the source of the true deep suffering and replacing those things with the truth about God to provide peace for everybody who's.

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Listening and wants to pray that prayer.

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Yeah, I think we ought to move into prayer now, so if there I just want to say that if you've had a thought that God is testing you, just think about those situations and how they felt and let's pray a prayer that reverses that thought process and will change potentially how the challenges of life feel to you going forward.

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So just pray along with me so Heavenly Father.

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Please forgive me.

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For having ever believed that you have tested me?

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That you have.

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Brought evil to my life.

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Forgive me for any implication that there is any evil in you whatsoever.

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O Lord, I reject that lie.

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And I ask you father, to replace it with the truth.

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Of how much you love me, how much you care for me.

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And your promise that you're going to redeem anything that comes from Satan.

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Any broken tiny thing of the world.

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That causes me suffering.

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That you have promised to redeem it.

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And Laura to clear that to be true.

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Heavenly Father please heal me.

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Of any way in which I have suffered from believing this lie.

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From any access it is given Satan to rob me of my peace and cause me to despair cause me hopelessness.

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I declare the truth.

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That in every situation.

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As I choose you.

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Through the energy and the power of love that you've given me to choose you.

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That there is hope.

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And that there is redemption.

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And that it is a greater peace and greater assurance.

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No matter what situation I'm in the middle of.

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Heavenly Father, please give me the strength.

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To not return to these lies.

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But to trust you in every situation.

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I opened my heart to you to invade my thinking.

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With your truth and your hope in every situation.

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I pray all these things in Jesus name Amen, Amen.

00:23:33 Beth Murphy

OK.

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So that's it for this Rockville Center podcast.

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Thanks for joining us.

00:23:38 Beth Murphy

Thank you, we'll be talking to you again soon.