Faith to Witness 99

Here’s the gist, human. Friends inspire friends to witness. For starters, witness to each other. It’s good practice. Share what God is doing in your life. Do not live through your relationship with a friend on silent, unsaid assumptions that whisper amen. Speak loud, talk boldly to your friends about the presence of the heart of God in your life. We cannot ever get enough of God. We always need Jesus. We need his Word, we need spirit prompts to pull us back into the kingdom reality we are living toward.

Jesus showed his disciples how to be a friend by sharing what he had learned from his Father. (His words, not mine.) He laid down his divine advantage to lay down his life for his friends. A Savior who came to be with us and lead a wild revolution of how people should treat each other, witness to each other, carry a quiver of arrows to protect each other, and find a whole bunch of lost sheep. 

Friends inspire friends to “go finding.”

Today’s episode is dedicated to my three granddaughters—Audrey, Calli, and Sophia. 
That they seek covenant friendships throughout their lives. 
That they seek friends who “go finding.”
That they make a wild revolution of it.

Join us. E187.

John 15:13

13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command.

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

Season 3 Episode 187 Friendships - “The Lord is Witness Between You and Me Forever” (friends inspire friends to witness, Part 2) 

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Here’s the gist, human. Jonathan, son of King Saul told the future king, David, that “the Lord is witness between you and me forever.” Now that’s a friendship sealed by a God who doesn’t mess around with the truth. Two warriors who immediately connected, bonded through God’s covenant, and made the pact Jesus talks about in John 15:13. 

So for one, can we just ponder the strength of having our Lord be a witness to the relationships he brings us to on this earth? And for another, can we rally our free will toward choosing friends that God ordains, friends who are invested in bringing a daily witness to others? 

This resonates. If you want to strengthen your witness to others, then commit to God as the witness between you and every friend you hold close. Choose wisely. I am not talking about connections built on emojis and amens. I am talking about shooting three arrows beyond the path of your friends and forging friendships that keep you on the path to find the one. The kind of friend who is working the same terrain, from a different cave, looking for lost sheep. Just like you.

Had to be said. Let’s think about it. 

1 Samuel 20:23

23 And about the matter you and I discussed—remember, the Lord is witness between you and me forever.”

E186.

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

Season 3 Episode 186 Friendships - “The Lord is Witness Between You and Me Forever” (friends in the name of the Lord, Part 1)

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Here’s the gist, human. Embracing God’s nature, clinging to his Son’s robe with every fiber of my inner and outer being is not something I can do alone. Neither can you. It is God’s right hand, it is the surrendered will of Jesus that binds the moments when my gratitude shares space with my grief. Tell me it isn’t the same with you. When God’s grace saves us by bringing us into the struggle, and tells us to stand with him in the fire. That his nature, his divine presence is so powerful that he can bring us through, bring us closer, yes closer to his presence. 

This is how he grows us in his image. Join us to hear a little about who said “God is in the fire, bro. It’s beautiful.”

E185.

Daniel 3:25

25 He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

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

Season 3 Episode 185 When God Binds Our Gratitude to Our Grief (X marks the spot) 

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Here’s the gist, human. When Jesus takes the time to tell a story, he stops the general conversation to focus on an element that teaches us more about following him. When Jesus pauses to share a parable, does his pause hold something more than a little moral weight, does his focus transcend our finite understanding of, let’s say, an attribute like “justice”? Does his nature overtake our nature through his metaphorical story? Does what appears to be a simple lesson become a powerful principle that runs through our bones? An enduring principle that prompts us to spiritually grow through his nature?

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

Matthew 20:13-15

13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Join us. E184. 

Season 3 When I am Jealous of a Just God (parable of the workers in the vineyard)

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

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Here’s the gist, human. When was the last time you felt the kind of sorrow that overtook your soul? A flooding sorrow that filled every crevice of your heart, a rising pressure, the suffocating weight of sadness, a tragic suffering for what has come or is about to come, a fear that engulfs your spirit, a non-negotiable reckoning within your gut, so deep, such a feeling of hopelessness, an ending, a loss, a terminal feeling in a heart that hope has vacated, a churning stomach nauseous with defeat, a thousand veins in shock, paralyzed, pumping sadness through your core, a human tragedy that only you must feel, that your spirit has completely lost its way, confusing north with south, east with west, an all-consuming fire that is frantic, breathless, spiritless. When you feel this sorrow, no matter how unending that grief-laden moment, that time is, someone had it worse. 
Someone who was bound to the cross.
Matthew 26:38
Gethsemane
38 Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

Jesus was taken up by his Heavenly Father. The intimacy with which we hold on to this promise is overwhelming. Like the sorrow in the soul of Jesus in that garden. 

It is crazy to think that in the beginning man walked with God in his garden. Then his Son, the Son of man, pleaded for a different destiny, but accepted his Father’s Will in a garden. This would be called redemption.

Join us. E183. From Sorrowed Soul to Ascended Savior (the power of grieving our sin nature to rise with Jesus)

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

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